Uber Bots!!

Here are four robots in the newest style. They are made with Triton, a glass from Double Helix that pops out the wonderful lustre in a 'reduction' flame.
I'm so pleased that I am able to replicate the robotic style that was achieved in the first of this new line.

Just before I go to sleep I think about beads, as much as I love the process of creation, wouldn't it be great if the things visualized in your mind could be made real in an instant? Even if it was an image transfer so that you could remember the colours and pattern and design. I have a visual diary etc but often the memory from that twilight mind state evaporates in the real light. Also, lugging around 100 coloured pencils just so you can get the right colour is a little unwieldy.
One idea I had was to get a specialized tablet (laptop) that can deal with graphics programmes and is in a good portable size. They are a bit slow in coming out with it. I know they're out there but so far they're fairly primitive. Unless YOU know of one?

Super Sexy Robot!

It's sleek, smooth, curvy and super shiny with a mirrored finish. Reminds me of chrome and glass (funny thing, it IS glass).
I made this robot with a relatively new glass from Double Helix, called Triton. Triton is a transparent cobalt blue glass in rod form, but when reduced... "BLING!!!" out comes the mother of all lustres. Featured on his front is a cog from a watch, the kind of clean, simple detail that marries so beautifully with all the smooth shininess (imagine mag wheels, why do people love them so much...) His head has various bumps perfect clear on the sides and light golden 'antennae' on his head of another new fabulous glass called Aurae (also from Double Helix). I'm also planning on making a robot out of that. The eyes came out with some intense colours and add life to his character.

The cog army evolution!

My watch parts finally arrived and my plan for building robots is coming to fruition! I love how the watch bits lie on a surface, it always looks like a work of art.
Here are the first two robots with the new parts. I learned so much in the process! and there is still so much more to learn. Although I can acknowledge many challenges in the making of them, I don't have all the answers yet, just some ideas of how I will tackle them.
Captain Cog is the one on the left, he was my first, and more successful than Grease Monkey on the right, who lost a bit of his cog in a somewhat frightening display of sparks and spats.