Test Results :: Moana

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

CiM Moana is a new Limited Run colour from Creation is Messy. It's a dark, blueish-teal semi-opaque. The colour of it is very similar to the colour of CiM Mermaid, but it is an opal like Rainforest and Atlantis. It is somewhat greener than CiM Atlantis, and far bluer than Rainforest. I think that this colour has very limited quantities, so if it looks like something you want, you'd better get some as soon as the shipment lands at Frantz Art Glass. This colour melted like a dream, and its reactions with other colours are very similar to the reactions that I got with both Atlantis and Rainforest.

Silver leaf turns a yellowish colour on top of Moana, and sort of disperses in little beads in a lacelike pattern. When the silver is reduced and encased, it turns yellow.

On top of Moana, my reducing silver glass got some interesting halo effects, however the blue on blue thing doesn't really do it for me. Not enough contrast. My TerraNova2 frit got some nice strike though.

Here we see how reactive Moana is.  Copper Green, Opal Yellow and Peace all separate on top of Moana, and putting Moana on top of those colours makes them rise up in halos around the Moana dots and stringer lines.  Moana separates into light and dark on top of Tuxedo, too.

Ivory is the neatest reaction of the bunch - it separates and curdles when used on top of Moana as well as developing a dark line reaction.  When Moana is used on top of Ivory, a dark brown line reaction pops up, in addition to a lot of muddy brown webbing and the Ivory rising up in halos around it.

Here's a fun bead with Moana:

Test Results :: Chocolotta Verde

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

Effetre Chocolotta Verde is a dark, greenish-brown opaque. It doesn't really look green when used in a solid bead, but you can really see how green it is when you put it on top of black. If I search back through my childhood memories for another colour like Chocolotta Verde, I come up with the 'stuff' that was at the bottom of the pond on my great aunt's farm. I didn't really like that 'stuff' very much, but Chocolotta Verde really appeals to me with all of its rare-earth-coloured weirdness.

In the bead on the right, I've reduced Chocolotta Verde, and it has turned a burgundy colour and developed a bit of a metallic coating. I think that this means that there is copper in this colour, and that reducing it brings the copper to the surface. This is confirmed somewhat by the fact that it forms a dark line reaction with Ivory (you'll see, below).

When silver leaf is applied to Chocolotta Verde it fans and spreads out, taking over the whole surface of the bead. It also develops a faint blueish cast to it. This is a pretty nice effect. However, when the silver leaf is reduced and encased, it turns a sickly, gross mustard colour.

Chocolotta Verde makes a better base colour for striking silver glass than it does for reducing silver glass. In the bead on the left, most of the colours reduced, however for some reason all of the little bits of frit in my frit blend that are Psyche did not reduce. Weird, right?

In the bead on the right, the TerraNova2 colour got a really attractive first strike. I never wait long enough when I'm testing the striking silver glass frit, but I can tell from the colour I did get that these two colours play well together.

Here is where we can really see the "Verde" (green-ness) of the Chocolotta Verde. For some reason, the odd green-ness of it really pops out at me when it's against other colours.

When Tuxedo is laid on top of Chocolotta Verde, faint halos pop up around the dots and stringer lines. The Chocolotta Verde dots and stringer lines on top of Tuxedo don't display a lot of separation but there is something a little odd about them, like the edges aren't quite uniform and are maybe a bit lighter.

When you use Copper Green on top of Chocolotta Verde, it goes sort of grey and dull and the edges of the dots and stringer lines look faintly three-dimensional. Not quite 'separation' but close.

Chocolotta Verde develops a brown dark line reaction with Ivory when it is used on top of it. Oddly, this reaction isn't much in evidence when Chocolotta Verde is the base colour.

There isn't much of a reaction between Peace and Chocolotta Verde, however on top of Peace the Chocolotta Verde looks almost transparent. All of the weird lines in it smooth out and it looks softer and greyer on top of Peace than it does on any of the other colours.

 Some fun beads with Chocolotta Verde:

 

Test Results :: Indigo

1 - Plain, 2 - Plain (reduced), 3 - Over Clear, 4 - w/ Silver Leaf, 5 - w/ Silver Leaf (reduced & encased), 6 - w/ Reducing Silver Glass Frit, 7 - w/ TerraNova2 Frit, 8 & 9 - w/ Tuxedo, Copper Green, Opal Yellow, Ivory and Peace

CiM Indigo is a dark, rich royal blue transparent. It's a very densely saturated colour, looking almost black in small self-coloured spacers. Even over Clear, the colour of Indigo is almost black-dark. In thin layers, however, Indigo lightens up enough for us to see it when it is used over other colours.

Silver leaf burnished into the surface and then burned off results in just the faintest spray of dusty-looking silver across the surface of the Indigo. When the silver is reduced and encased, it forms a greyish, translucent, ethereal blanket over the Indigo. I was a little aggressive here with my encasing rod across the too-soft surface of the bead, which resulted in 'rod tracks', but it look sort of cool the way the tip of the encasing rod dragged the silver in ripples. That might be worth doing on purpose.

Silver glass likes Indigo very much. The reducing silver glass frit shined up and got a beautiful brightness to it, and the TerraNova2 frit got some nice colour as well.

Indigo develops a light line around it when you use it on top of Copper Green. When Copper Green is used on top of Indigo, gets a bumpy look to it that is not quite what I'd call separation, but there's definitely something going on there.  Opal Yellow behaves very similarly.

With Peace though, there's definite separation, and it rises up in halos around Indigo dots and stringer lines. Indigo also bleeds into Peace - you can see how the halos that have popped up around the stringer lines are light blue instead of white.

Oddly enough, there is no dark line reaction between Ivory and Indigo.

Here are some fun beads with Indigo.