Mix Color September Artist: Sue Tuor

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Contents of set, 3 glass rods each of approx. 30cm in the following colors:

G00.591412 dark yellow
G00.591014 transp. medium topaz
G00.591048 transp. gray
G00.538007RB iris orange
G00.l3203ORB pastel blue
c511467 CIM weeping willow

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Interview with: Sue Tuor

How long have you been making glass beads and how did you get started?
I have been making glass beads since 2018. I met a bead maker through a relative in Germany. For one afternoon, I was allowed to try my hand at it with her. The fascination was so great that I rented studio space from a glass artist in Switzerland for 3 months. After that, I was still so enthusiastic that I set up my own workstation.

What did you find the most difficult to learn?
Controlling the heat and getting the beads to be round was the biggest challenge for me. Later, encasing and shaping figures were added to that.

Who is your role model?
I don't really have one specific person as a role model. It is more all the people I have ever worked with. That includes all the instructors and everyone who was at the Courage Bead association camps.

Where do you get your inspiration?
The techniques or objects that I learned about in the courses gave me many ideas. But I get my inspiration from nature, and sometimes ideas arise while I am working.

What are your goals?
I am currently discovering how much fun it is to play with the glass. I had done that at the beginning, too, but today I feel more confident and more willing to experiment.
So my goal is to continue exploring boundaries and also to find my own style a little more.

What are you taking away from this challenge? What did you like about it?
It was exciting to start by choosing the colors and then making something from them.
I wasn't so focused on techniques, and I pushed my perfectionism aside. That was very relaxing for me, and the ideas came more frequently while I was working.