Pinwheeling Glass Beads

Video Transcript

"In this clip we are going to discuss pinwheeling. Pinwheeling is when you have basically any colors you want, usually you have two contrasting colors and you heat up the spot right where they touch and then you take a cold, I usually use a clear rod, I guess it doesn't matter which color you use. I usually use a cold clear rod and you stick it in at the very hot point then you spin and you get the colors to come together and swirl around each other and that is called pinwheeling and I am going to demonstrate that here. To start we are going to start with a clear rod and I am just going to put on a clear rod and we are going to smoosh it down and I am going to apply two colors, contrasting colors next to each other and I am going to demonstrate the pinwheeling technique for you. We are just going to wrench on this clear here pretty hard and get it heated up. I am going to use our marver again. Since we have got that nice and heated I will get the parallel masters and squish it. I like using the clear here to show the demonstrations because it is really cool and you can see what it looks like in casting clear and then you can see what it looks like without the clear. You have always got a varying effect. Alright that will be out little test spot and that's where I will show you what the pinwheeling does and what can happen."