Bead Chat Magazine Spring 2015 | Page 114

I’m an avid photographer, albeit not the best but I enjoy composition and capturing moments. At the beginning of last year whilst driving along the coast road taking in the views an idea started to formulate...putting these fantastic landscapes I was witness to into little ceramic pendants. I was quite excited by the idea and much to my other halves dismay, began making him pull over on our drives if I saw an interesting scene. Once home I went though my many, many images from Scotland and I thought would make interesting pendants, cro planned to sketch out into clay. Using some artis out designs loosely based on my photographs in dried out I fired them to bisque, stained the rece then used stoneware glazes to glaze. I was in lo results! With the lighthouse I sculpted the shape and th I could reproduce them easily without having to creativebeadchat.com Corsewell Lighthouse