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  The planet-themed tabletop is completely glued now, and I’ve been contemplating grout colors.  Since this is a table that will be used heavily, I plan to use epoxy grout, which dries hard as a rock, is impervious to liquid, and never needs sealing.  My color scheme

When you’ve been married as long as I have, there is a lot of knowledge about relationship and living that accrues.  One approach to life that I’ve learned from my husband is to face adversity by breaking down the problem into do-able chunks and pursuing each in

Three blogs.  Three blogs I write.  Three is too many for me, but there is good reason I have three. The first blog is this very one, started in 2009.  It is about art, or about ideas that relate to the art I make. The second blog is called The Home Archaeology Report and it

The second day of the CIVA conference brought questions- important questions- for any artist who examines cultural assumptions and calls them ‘lies’.  An artist who believes that a personality underlying the universe, both re-creating and re-newing it, is both

A big part of the CIVA conference, entitled JUSTart,  for me, was lying in a gulley, in the rain of a thousand different ways of recognizing injustice and responding to it, and not drowning.   After spending the day drawing from life, then attending the juried CIVA show

Yes, the spiky things arrived in Wheaton for the CIVA show, unharmed.  Some saint in the art department uncrated them and hung them on the gallery wall.  You can spot two of them peeking through the crowd at the gallery talk by Rowley Kennerk. Now we’ll see if the spiky

Three of my mosaic portraits were juried into the 2013 Christians in the Visual Arts “JUSTart Conference” show.  Yaaaay!  Those same three pieces, those same three spiky pieces, those same three spiky glass pieces would need to be shipped across the country and arrive

Self-portrait Here is what I look like today (if I were in a monochrome world).  I did this sketch of myself looking into the mirror.  I did not spend much time on it, because I have a lot of tasks left in this day, but it captures me well enough. Since the last time I posted,

“Cut-ups” are still on the loose and making their mosaic.  In a previous post, I explained that the Cut-ups are a core group of fellow church members who want to learn to make mosaics, and who are willing to supervise other people in the making of a very large mosaic

Mad Bed – a work in progress about 24″ x 24″ x 8″ I started this sculpture two years ago in a workshop taught by Sherri Warner Hunter.  She is a master at sculpture based on closed-cell Styrofoam covered with fiberglass mesh and cement. Arriving at the