mosaic

This has been re-blogged from New Life from Shards. SNAP! YOU’RE A MODEL. March 6, 2014 Moving on to the third panel of “The Feeding of the 5000″ means drawing.  Lots of drawing.  Lots of erasing, too. On Tuesday, while Roberta cleaned the second panel, Jennie and I went into the

This post is re-blogged from my other blog, “New Life from Shards“, about the creation of a community-built church mosaic. On Wednesday, we graduated from Panel 2 into Panel 3!  The last pieces were laid and we took the two panels out for admiration and, maybe, some

Here’s a little peek at some tools and studio features that I’ve recently found essential:   I use this “self-healing” mat for cutting the fiberglass mesh at the edge of the tile tesserae when I have finished a panel. As you can see, my utility knife is

Yesterday’s post about portraiture is a nice segue into today’s activity, which was meeting with a neighbor and fellow artist, Nina Miller, who is a portrait photographer.  She confirmed that she looks for that particular gesture or expression which is so

With a cliché title like that, this post could be about anything, right?  Blood donation? A pro-life political rally? Gratitude?  Nope.  It’s about portraiture. Next time you are conversing with a friend, observe all that makes that person unique. It’s much more than

Hmmmm…. need to find a place at church to display these.  After all, the models were all gathered for Tuesday morning UPLIFT when I approached each one to model for my pencil and my camera. UPLIFT- University Presbyterians Living In Faith Together.  Need workboots?  We have

Last Friday night, we took the first of six panels of “The Feeding of the 5000” mosaic ‘out on the road’, as I call it when we take pieces or whole panels outside the church mosaic room. Yep, that’s me, Lynn Bridge, in the center of the photo, hands

  The Texas Conference of Churches is hosting its annual Celebration of Faith and Arts tomorrow, Friday, February 7th, 2014, from 7 – 10 pm at University Presbyterian Church! Join us for an evening of live music and a gallery of work by local Austin artists! Admission

In my post, Environment vs. The Environment, ‘hand-made gifts’ is #3 on my short list of things that feed our inner beings.  I am going to give you a personal example of a hand-made gift that is priceless to me. The Owl’s Beauty Secret (two sides) by Christine

I am a proud member of the Austin Mosaic Guild, and in the fall, we had this wonderful event I want to share with you. Each artist who wanted to participate bought a pre-packed bag of tesserae and a 4″ square board (an in-house fundraiser you know) and made a mosaic to