FASHION COLORWORKS 2010 BEADING CONTEST. JURORS
Beverly Ash Gilbert.
Beverly Ash Gilbert is a free-form bead artist who loves
playing with color and pushing the boundaries of her
creativity. She thrives on sharing what she has learned
and helping students' blast through their own creative
boundaries. She teaches workshops across the US and
shares her beadwork and photography on her website and
blog. She created Beverly's Bead Soup Collection and
has written two very colorful books: Eye For Color:
Interchangeable templates & Color Wheel System, and
Beaded Colorways: Creating Freeform Beadweaving Projects
and Palettes. She is a contributing artist in the
upcoming book Beading Across America.
Albina Polyanskaya.
Albina Polyanskaya is one of the most talented professional
beaded jewelry designers we have come across. She has been
creating jewelry for much of her life. Albina, who lives
in Kharkov, North-East of Ukraine, has said that jewelry
design is her way to express herself. For many years she
has developed her skills in beading techniques learning
peyote stitch, square stitch, cross stitch, etc. Albina
likes working with beads and gemstones, pearls and shells,
creating impressive free-from designs. She is a very
cheerful and life-loving person and feels that surroundings
are great influencers our emotions and behavior. She is a
winner of many local and international jewelry design
contests, a permanent participant of bead exhibitions.
Albina is also an experienced teacher and a writer: last
year Albina published a book "Beadwork: 100 patterns"
(in Russian).
Kerrie Slade.
Kerrie Slade lives in Mansfield, England, and has been
beading for about eight years. Kerrie is a great believer in
pushing both herself and the boundaries in beadwork in order
to create interesting and unusual designs. The inspiration
for her work comes mainly from her garden, and she recreates
her favorite flowers in beadwork. Her favorite stitches are
brick, herringbone, and peyote, and she is increasingly
trying to combine several stitches in one finished piece.
She says, "The only real limitation is my own imagination!"
Kerrie's articles and tutorials on bead designs are often
published by leading bead craft magazines: Bead&Button,
Beadwork, Bead, etc.
Spring 2010 Color Report for Bead & Jewelry
If developing your color artistry is more your goal than fashion-
forward thinking, download the Spring 2010 Color Report for Bead &
Jewelry Designers and get inspired by color harmonies you've never
seen. You'll have 10 new ideas by page 5! And your work will take an
exponential leap in creativity and originality.
23-page PDF pages of palettes, descriptions, photos, and color
suggestions based on Pantone's fashion color report of the season. And
revel in a gallery of jewelry inspired by the colors themselves. This would
inspire and help those entering the contest.
FASHION COLORWORKS 2010 contest sponsors
