Ruby

[Christine Farrelly]

Heres my offering towards the jewellery.

Christine

[alkolka]

Anybody care to render a fire opal? The exquisite, subtle colors in opal should make for a wonderful Xara X exercise (or tutorial, Gary?).

[Soquili]

Erik - jade rings like the ones you have drawn were highly treasured in the orient the last time I was there.

Christine - Lovely work. Star sapphires are a favorite of mine.

Al - I agree, it's been many years since I've seen a fire opal.

Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[This message was edited by Soquili on February 04, 2001 at 11:28 AM.]

[Ross Macintosh]

Its been a while since I've seen an opal but I thought I'd give it a try after seeing Erik's post in the main forum describing how he made is rings of translucent jade. I used the same technique of overlayed transparent shapes. I jumped around between solid colour fills with fractal clouds transparency and fractal cloud fills with flat transparency. All in all I think nine or ten superimposed shapes create the opal like effect. I also played around with the various transparency types.

Regards, Ross

PS - I've been having very strange difficulty trying to upload this post and its attachment. Maybe the Xara Opal has a curse!

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[Christine Farrelly]

From Christine

[iceBerg]

it's a bit off topic, but i really like those little stones you can buy at markets as a necklace, and when i saw this topic, i thought about making this. this is my first work in XaraX, and it took me 2 hours to draw.(i'm working on a much bigger project, but it won't be ready in the near future)