The Pearl Midge

My mind is always going. I’m constantly looking through my materials and thinking of something new. With the success of the flash midges, I wanted to add something a little extra. I’ve had a roll of pearl tinsel collecting dust and had to do something with it. I started laying strips of the pearl on top of rolls of tinsel to see how much color would come through. It was kind of amazing to see that in some cases it would completely change the base color. I tied a few larger flash midges and put a top layer of pearl on it. I started with red, purple, and black. The red became this fiery orange when looking straight on, but when you changed the angle of the light source, it became an almost neon orange. The black became vibrant green, and the purple stayed purple, but looks like an oil sheen on top of water. The only ones that don’t change much are the silver and green. These color changes are all based on perception, which is really going make things interesting. I haven’t been this excited to release a variant in a while, mainly because of the uniqueness of the fly. Pictures can’t do it justice.