Relaxation

I am amazed at how relaxing rolling beads can be. Beginning the process is just as soothing as the actual work. I have been pouring over magazine pages, not looking at the picture as a whole, but examining the colors, how they blend together, and imagining how they will look rolled up. Would they look better as cigar beads or barrel beads? I love the cigar shaped beads (beads that are thicker in the middle) because of the way the colors on the paper blend together to make something entirely new. A really nice pattern might look better as a barrel bead, because rolling it the other way would not show the pattern, just the colors.

I minored in art way back when I was in college, and had forgotten how much I enjoyed looking at the brush strokes or individual components, or what actually makes up the pictures or paintings. It's absolutely fascinating to me how something so small and insignificant can make up a thing of such beauty. The next time you are looking at a picture of something, unfocus your eyes and just look at the colors and the way they all come together. It amazes me every time.