glass

The Food Desert This mosaic will soon hang in Ciel Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Here is Ciel’s press release about the show, tailored for my local paper, of course: Lynn Bridge of Austin, TX  has been selected by juror Sonia King for inclusion in articulate : the

[slideshow] More glass shards, more kiln time, more mortar, more faces.  These are the faces you have seen before, either on this blog, or at my home studio, and they are starting to multiply. My kiln is running every day now that the West Austin Studio Tour is over. I am using

Abundance by Lynn Bridge Over the weekend, I was talking to a friend who mothers an elementary school-aged daughter.  The child is the only offspring of two talented parents, and it would be hard to imagine a child with better upbringing on all fronts.  Short of the earth coming

Longhorn 11 1/2″ x 16″ Longhorn cattle are popular in these parts.  One of them is the mascot of the enormous university in my town, but besides that, they have a long history in Texas. One of my neighbors, H.W. Brands, is a history scholar and prolific author, and

Tex-mex Plate #5 by Lynn Bridge If I want to eat corn tortillas with butter on them until I feel sick, I go to Matt’s El Rancho in the neighborhood.  When I was a child, it was a small restaurant on East 1st Street in Austin, but the Martinez family eventually opened a much

Miguel by Lynn Bridge If you keep up with the posts on this blog, you’ve already seen this image in “Overlooked”.  This face was drawn from memory using glass powder applied to glass, then fired in the kiln. I enjoy inventing faces in my imagination, too. 

Mel Who is the subject of this glass portrait? We don’t know.  Which is the point.  This person is often overlooked. Man or woman?  Manual laborer, intellectual, musician?  Not sure. How often do we overlook people right in our path?  A larger question is ‘How often

Castle Moon by Lynn Bridge Last night, at the beginning fusing and slumping class taught by Jim Berry of Blue Moon Glassworks, we saw our projects that had been in the kiln from the week before.  Altogether, the 7″ dishes had a great variety of textures, colors, and themes.

Grinning Dog by Lynn Bridge I hope that today’s post amuses you AND encourages you to stretch out and try something new. In anticipation of taking a class from the British mosaic artist Martin Cheek (in Austin in February), I needed to learn how to make my own fused glass