mosaics

The Nipper Buddy My two “trigger fingers”- swollen joints from long-term use of tile nippers- have been a problem for several years.  But now, the problem has worked its way up my arm and into my elbow. In addition to doing my e-cises, as prescribed by my Pain Free

Three of my mosaic portraits were juried into the 2013 Christians in the Visual Arts “JUSTart Conference” show.  Yaaaay!  Those same three pieces, those same three spiky pieces, those same three spiky glass pieces would need to be shipped across the country and arrive

Flower Fractures If you have taken a workshop with the internationally-known Israeli mosaic artist, Ilana Shafir, you will know exactly what this mosaic is.  Yes, I started it in her 2-day workshop at the 2011 Society of American Mosaic Artists conference in Austin, Texas.  The

On Saturday morning at 8 a.m., Bob and I were at Kruger’s Diamond Jewelers in downtown Austin, ready to take down the previous mosaic show window, and mount the next show.   Bob is standing just inside the door of the store which has been in this location since the

The past two weekends were open-house weekends for Glencliff Art Studio, which was stop #103 on the 2013 WEST Austin Studio Tour.  Dianne Sonnenberg and I, along with family and friends who helped, hosted a studio tour and a gallery tour of our mosaics and paintings.  For those

“Cut-ups” are still on the loose and making their mosaic.  In a previous post, I explained that the Cut-ups are a core group of fellow church members who want to learn to make mosaics, and who are willing to supervise other people in the making of a very large mosaic

Mad Bed – a work in progress about 24″ x 24″ x 8″ I started this sculpture two years ago in a workshop taught by Sherri Warner Hunter.  She is a master at sculpture based on closed-cell Styrofoam covered with fiberglass mesh and cement. Arriving at the

Our church in Austin, University Presbyterian, is embarking on a 7 foot-by-19 foot mosaic project for an indoor wall.  This has been a dream in my head for years, and now it is happening.  A group of volunteers who are beginners at mosaic have been coming to my studio week after

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

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