Hamma Beads

Hi
I started a collection of wolves in Hamma beads. My favourite is the brown wolf.

I think the shadow is very effective.
I put it in a frame and hung it on my wall with the other two I have completed so far.

I made the backgrounds blocky and I think it works well with the brown wolf.

On reflection I think there is too much black in the background for this one.

I tried to go for placing this one on the steps to a temple but it probably makes the background too fussy.

I think there is something primal about wolves. I am thinking of trying one in green but haven't been able to find olive green yet.

Hamma Beads

Hi
To solve the problem of the curvature of the base of the pictures I found it necessary to leave them on the board much longer while ironing. This gave much better results but tended to destroy the pegs on the boards.
I used to enjoy playing a game called Battle of Olympus and so decided to produce some of the icons from the game. If you played the game you might recognise these.

Hawks that dropped stones on the hero's head.

This is the hero.

                                                            

This is one of the old men the hero had to talk to inside one of the houses.

Here are some of the snakes from a cave. The later snakes were red.

Here are Zeus and a messenger.

Here is the hero with the princess he has to rescue.

I hope you enjoyed these. I will show you my two favourites from this set next time.

Hamma Beads

Hi
The next thing I tried after the game icons were some X men characters. I only did a few because although I think they are very effective you will notice that I had a problem with the base warping.
Here are three of the ones I completed.

Wolverine

Storm

Gambit

The problem appeared to be caused by the final ironing after removal from the board.

Hamma Beads

Hi
Hamma beads became popular a while ago now but I still do the occasional one. I love the pixel art effect and have been experimenting with achieving the same effect in other ways. When I first tried out Hamma beads I couldn't decide whether to use the small, mini beads or the medium, midi beads. I think the mini beads make very cute pictures but they are difficult to handle. I found it necessary to use  tweezers to place them and they would even move by static as I covered them ready to be ironed. Consequently I settled for the midi size. I started with some icons from a game I was playing at the time called Gemsweeper which were small and simple.

I found achieving a good end result unpredictable, and in fact still do. One other problem I find is that some of the beads tend to expand into rings as you can see if you look at the edge of the Easter Island statue.
I will show you some of my later attempts next time.