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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

Why Nests? « Art of the Natural World. Liza Myers is a painter of unusual gifts.  I admire her work because she connects many of my loves; nature, history/human culture, and connection itself.  This is a wonderful blog entry about what she does.  Enjoy!

Tex-Mex mosaic by Lynn Bridge I grew up eating Tex-Mex cuisine.  At the time, ‘cuisine’ was considered too fancy a word for what was served up in Texas restaurants with woven sarapes and over-sized sombreros hanging on the plaster walls, but now scholars of cooking

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.

I got a ‘wild hair’ today and decided that, instead of hanging this piece, World-wide,  INSIDE while it is waiting to go out to a show , I would display it OUTSIDE.  That is the beauty of mosaic- it is fairly easy to make a mosaic that is both light-weight and

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

Detail of World-wide Copyright by Lynn Bridge What in the world?!?!?  Exactly!  It certainly is a conversation-piece, isn’t it? World-wide 36″ x 48″. Copyright by Lynn Bridge I was thinking of cells and growth and malignancy and plague and epidemics and the

Puddle  13 by Lynn Bridge Do you remember being in 7th grade? If you were a girl, it is likely that, at one time or another, you found yourself in a rivalry with another girl for the friendship of a third girl.  Somehow we girls thought that a person could not have two best

Charlotte Bell has photographed mosaics twice for me now and I want to show off her latest work here. Charlotte* and her husband, also an artist (in wood), live in a neighborhood which is loaded with artists.  Every year they band together and host a studio tour and sale- this is