Twisting Color into Glass Beads

Video Transcript

"In this clip we are going to do the pinwheeling so basically we are just going to heat up our clear and our two colors. We are going to heat them up and get them super hot at a fine point, about a point as big as this rod right here and then we are going to stick this coil rod in there and spin and spin. So for this one I think maybe we will do a lot of spinning so you can really tell the contrast so just a little but we will see how it goes. We are going to fire up the torch and basically we are just going to heat up the area where the two come together with a nice hot flame. When you do some pinwheeling you really want to get it about as hot as it can get. We are going to heat up that area right in between them on the nonclear side here, got that nice and heated and let's get my pinwheeling instrument ready, three, two, one. There we go we've got a little bit in there. Don't be afraid if your first one does not do exactly what you want, you can definitely keep doing it. There is a good one, there we go. Okay. So we will just heat that up real quick and after you pinwheel basically you want to break off that punchee you use to pinwheel and then you just heat up where you were and squish it down again just like it was before you started pinwheeling. So right here this is the blue moon here on my left and then that's the lava on my right and as you can see the lava has come over to the left a little bit and some of the blue moon has shifted to the right, see how it kind of swirls in there. It is kind of hard to really get a good look at it and then on the flip side with the clear you don't really get as much of the design but you can see the colors have moved and they have shifted into each other. Now you could also pinwheel on the clear side as well but you would have to get it even hotter than I had it so that would have been difficult for me but if you would have had a bigger torch it would not have been a problem. So yes, there is pinwheeling and that is the swirl, that is pretty much the trademark of the pinwheel, you get nice swirls. Basically you can go from any size, you can do real small pinwheels, you can do real big ones, just vary the size of the rod that you use to do the pinwheeling and you get that really cool swirl effect."