Yesterday I showed you my false starts, forward progress, and completion of one piece I did for the new Dell Children’s Medical Center wall.  Now, I shall show you the same on my next piece. The mosaic of the girl and a dog is 12″ x 12″.  The boy and dog is only

The Austin Mosaic Guild has been making a wall of mosaics for almost a year now, to be installed in a new garden at the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas.  The wall commemorates 25 years of the therapy dog program.  Each member of the guild has had the

Just for fun, I thought I’d show you a series of photos I took while making my latest small mosaic portrait.  You can see the forward steps and the backward steps in the process.  Sometimes I chiseled tiles off the board and substituted others.  While I was making the

My eyes are glazed, my distance vision is blurry, and I’m dazed from sitting in front of my computer for eight days.  I am pretending to be an office worker, and why is this?  To write and upload text and pictures for my new website, of course.  I shall continue to add art

make mosaics- they are so time-consuming!”  This is a quote from a student of mine who, incidentally, has several future mosaic plans for himself. I won’t attempt to answer the question of  ‘Why?’  until a later post, but I will say something now about

Well, Hello, Little Fella by Lynn Bridge My latest commission involved mosaic techniques I had been ready to try out, but hadn’t had a pressing reason to start.  When the clients said that they wanted a mosaic in the spirit of Matisse’s Blue Nudes,or his Goldfish

detail of Field of Eggs by Lynn Bridge I have been contemplating my online life and how to consolidate a couple of my personal sites into one. Last time I looked, WordPress didn’t offer a blog theme with a static cover page (resembling a website), but now it does. Thank

Not only am I having my first experiences teaching adults, but I’m also brand-new to teaching art. I have had decades to practice art, to experience being a student, and to think about the many subjects within the category ‘art’, but teaching is a novelty for

To entitle sequential posts ‘Part A’ and ‘Part B’ sounds like I’m mixing epoxy, but I’m not.  I am gluing together my thoughts about the art and science of teaching, in the hope that you will share your experiences as a teacher, or your

I spent ten happy hours this holiday weekend teaching four adults in a beginning mosaic class at Glencliff Art Studio.  I’ve spent countless hours in the classroom with 11 to 18-year-olds, but until now, zero hours teaching adults. Here are my preliminary observations- see