Test Results :: Adobe (2nd Batch)

1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 5 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 6 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 7 & 8 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory, Peace

This second batch of CiM Adobe Limited Run is similar to the first batch, but has enough differences that for me it is not really the same glass, although the colour is very similar.

Compared to the first batch of Adobe, the colour of this second batch is a little lighter and a little cooler.  The first batch of Adobe pinkened, darkened and sheened up when reduced, but this one does not. Regardless, I am thrilled that there will be more Adobe in some form or another. When a colour is this appealing, I'd far rather have it be slightly different from batch to batch than not have any of it at all.

This 2nd Batch of Adobe is not as reactive with silver as the first batch was, but silver leaf still fumes Adobe a darker colour of brown.  When the silver leaf is reduced and encased, it forms a sort of ethereal blanket over the Adobe.

This batch of Adobe seems a little more silver glass-friendly than the first batch.  My TerraNova2 frit doesn't have thick, dirty halos around it the way it did in my test results for the first batch, and it seems to have developed more colour as well.

 



Tuxedo: When Tuxedo is used on top of this batch of Adobe, the Adobe pops up around it with little 'halos'.  The colour of these halos is the same as the colour of the rest of the adobe, but it is interesting nonetheless because of the faint tranlucent rings and lines that result from the reaction.  Tuxedo does not seem to bleed into this batch of Adobe the way it did the other one, although I did not super-heat this bead so I may just not have gotten it hot enough.

On top of Tuxedo, the Adobe separates a little and becomes slightly translucent.  This is much different than the effect I got with the first batch, because that batch got a silvery line surrounding the dots and lines I made with it on top of Tuxedo but this one definitely does not do that.

Copper Green: Copper Green stays a much lighter colour with this batch of Adobe than it did with the first one, and a faint brown line develops between the two colours that is paler than the brown line that developed between Copper Green and the first batch of Adobe.

Opal Yellow: On top of Opal Yellow, this batch of Adobe seems to float just above the surface of the bead, much like what I got with the first batch. However, Opal Yellow doesn't have nearly the same tendency to spread out on top of this batch as it did the first one.

Ivory: My Ivory got much spreadier (is that a word?) on top of this batch of Adobe than it did on top of the other one, and where my Adobe stringerwork seemed to have a little spiky bleeding to it on top of Ivory with the last batch, that reaction is not evident at all with this one.

Peace:  When I tested the first batch of Adobe, I was using Effetre White, but now I am using Peace.  So... no useful comparison to make here, and not much reactivity either.

Test Results :: Adobe

1 - Plain (reduced), 2 - Plain, 3 - w/ Silver Leaf, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 5 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 6 - w/ Silver Glass Frit (reduced), 7 - w/ Tuxedo, 8 - w/ Copper Green, 9 - w/ Opal Yellow, 10 - w/ Ivory, 11 - w/ White

It's surprising that I was even able to melt any CiM Adobe Limited Run, since all I've done with my Butter Pecan Unique #3 is gently lift it out of the box, pet it lovingly and then put it away again... over and over.  This colour reminds me a lot of my Butter Pecan #3 in rod form, but since I haven't actually used any of that colour yet it's hard to say for sure. 

My favourite combinations with Adobe so far have to be when it's under Copper Green or over Steel Blue.  Adobe etches beautifully, too.  I love the soft, medium peachy brown tone of this colour and I'm sad that there doesn't seem to be any more left for sale anywhere.

I put these on the mandrel in the wrong order, which is why the reduced one is left of the plain, unreduced one.  Reducing Adobe turns it a slightly pinker, duller version of itself and makes it faintly shiny. 

Silver leaf on top of Adobe turns a bronzey colour and fumes the Adobe to a rich brown.  When the silver leaf is reduced and encased, it turns quite blue under the Clear.  The silvered Adobe is a little lighter once its been encased, but not much. 

On top of Adobe, silver glass isn't really that interesting.  I got decent colour (for me) out of both the striking and reducing silver glass frit, but you can see on the left the dirty grey halo that surrounds the fritty bits, and in the bead on the right, reducing the Adobe resulted in it taking on a slightly dirty sheen, as it did above in the disc spacer.  I can imagine circumstances where this is a desirable effect, but I'm not sure I like it much.

It's not very evident in the picture, but the Adobe has faint, shiny thin lines around it on the side where the Adobe lines and dots are on top of the Tuxedo.  The Tuxedo has bled over to the Adobe side a bit, making it look sort of dirty.

With Adobe, Copper Green takes on a darker persona.  The Copper Green dots and lines also have a subtle brown outline to them, making them stand out slightly from the rest of the bead.  The Adobe lines and dots on top of the Copper Green do not seem to do that at all, and the Adobe on top of the Copper Green looks much lighter than it did anywhere else I used it in these test beads.  These colour reactions are funny. 

Opal Yellow spreads like crazy on top of Adobe, although I think I helped it along by being sort of inept with my bead roller and mushing the bead a bit.  The Opal Yellow also has the odd look of 'floating' on top of the Adobe.  Adobe on top of Opal Yellow isn't as interesting, but the two colours are sort of pretty together, or at least they would be with an accent colour to tie them together.

Ivory spreads on top of Adobe, too, but not as much.  And on top of Ivory, Adobe bleeds a little.  You can see thin little prickles poking out from the Adobe stringerwork.  There's a bit of a reaction where the two colours meet, almost like they're afraid to touch each other.

White also spreads on top of Adobe.  I must have been tired when I made this bead because the stringerwork is unusually erratic, even for me. :P

And here are the fun beads with Adobe.  I may still be able to squeeze one or two more out since I've got one rod of this left and am forcing myself to use up all of my odds and ends before moving on to the new palette I've got planned.