A wall.  A looooong, blank, cement wall. My current art commission clients looked at the plans for their new retaining wall and they saw it covered in mosaic.  LUCKY ME!  They bestowed the design-and-creation job on me. When they saw their wall in their minds’-eyes, they

I have shown you some of my mosaic portraits before, but I have three new ones to post. Jamal Copyright Lynn Bridge  Allow me to introduce you to Jamal, a 3-dimensional mosaic about 10″ x 10″ x 4″, that hangs on a wall.  I made the face using black powdered

Planet-themed table top by Lynn Bridge After my spouse built the sturdy, hollow-topped coffee table, I planned the mosaic finish.  In 2 feet by 4 feet, I wanted to give a flavor of vast space, not to mention, exciting color. Several times, in a darkened room, I set up balls of

Since I have gone into the private lesson business (mosaic, drawing) instead of the business of teaching classes, I thought I’d explain some differences for you, the student. Really, for the teacher, classes of adults and small classes of children are desirable because the

Almost everything in my studio now has wheels, or it glides.  For each activity- drawing, painting, cutting glass, cutting tile, mosaicking, teaching- I can quickly re-arrange my studio to fit my needs! Look at this great little pull-out my handy-dandy husband made for my bins of

  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

I need to share with you a little secret known only to those who study drawing as adults:  drawing lessons drag negative feelings out of your unaware-ness into the sunlight of your consciousness.  This is very disconcerting and discouraging for those who walk into drawing lessons

When you mention to me that you like to stay scheduled and busy, not have any free time on your hands, I will admit that the question passes through my mind, “Why do you not want to spend any time with yourself?” You see, in my world, spending time alone and

Update on Shipping Spiky Things, which I posted several months ago:  The spiky portraits arrived safely back at my studio in Texas from the show in Illinois with not a glass shard broken!  Across the country, being uncrated and shown, being re-crated, and shipped, all without

In addition to working on the mosaic planet table (which is still not completed!), I design and work on, a large mosaic for our church building, supervising and training a host of people as we go.  The blog on this topic is New Life from Shards: the making of  “The Feeding