technique

Go visit your favorite home-improvement store and buy a couple of cans of spray foam insulation. Do you have a sturdy shipping carton? Oh, well then, you need to beg, borrow, or buy one. Next, wrap your pointy, pokey, delicate mosaic in layers of kitchen plastic wrap.  Make the

Food Desert by Lynn Bridge 10 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ Which of you has had to change your diet dramatically by eliminating one or more food categories?  If you have, you are probably familiar with the feelings of panic when you realize that nothing your are

I have covered the newspaper with plaster strips. The cat wears two coats of plaster now, and will need a third coat before it is completely filled-out and smooth. What shall I name her?

At this stage, the wire armature is covered with little strips of newspaper held on with masking tape.

I have made a wire armature for a simple model of the squirmy cat. After the wire is in place, I will start filling in with newspaper and tape.

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

For those of you who might be under the mistaken impression that real artists know what they’re doing, and that there is a straight line from having inspirations to planning to executing, and, finally, to successfully producing ART, are you in for a surprise! To refute the

OK, Friends and Neighbors, let’s see what happens when I take a bronze safety glass table top, donated by a kind neighbor, and put it in the grass on top of a heavy vinyl tarp, and wrap it up, and hit it as hard as I can on the edge with a long-handled hammer…

Ah, the task of sorting….. takes me back to my toddler years.  We sorted by shape, by color, by type, by size- for hours. Now I’m back to sorting.  It is a mindless activity for a 100-degree day.   The street sweepings I collected are becoming a pile of

After a break from writing blogs, posting pictures on flickr, and updating my website, I am coming back to life- internet public life, that is.  I have spent the last six weeks or so in a little cocoon, finding a better focus for making art.  This also involves deciding what to