Next Project

Here is my next project! I'm collaborating with Sister Ansgar Holmberg to create a large mosaic based on her painting for a new assisted living home. Here is her original painting:

This is the design (see below). It has the original painting in the center, but it's been extended by a circle to echo the interior design theme. There will also be a mosaic border, shown here only with the mustard color.

Here is the board. It is 5'9.5" square made of two layers of wedi board. I made it so the pieces are arranged so there are no straight lines all the way across. This will make it stronger.

I used an overhead projector to trace the design onto the board.

The center green space and all of the buildings will be on a 1/4" raised panel.

Getting started! I'm going to try to tame the greens with more yellow based greens.

At the Dance

In between projects right now, I made this mosaic, "At the Dance". It's 30" x 30". Stained Glass Mosaic. I have a meeting tomorrow about the next project. More on that later. Have a great day!

Three mosaics

These three mosaics will be hung in the elevator lobby in the same building where the mural is going. They are 20" x 20" each. I'm so excited to get them and the mural installed in about a week!

Birthday deals!

My birthday is this month, and to celebrate I'm offering all of you 25% off of everything in my etsy shop! There are mosaics, books, cards, paintings... Just select any items you want and put them in your cart, and then use this coupon code when you check out:

JULYSPECIAL (no spaces)

Thanks, and enjoy!

Barb

FINISHED!!!!

I've just finished grouting the final panel of the mural - the rocks! It will be installed mid-July. Final size is 5 feet high by 13 feet across.

New item in my Etsy store

Hi! I have just added a new item to my Etsy store. It's a collection of ten postcards featuring my mosaic work. I had these for sale at my art tour show and they were a big success. People were getting them to use as postcards, but also just to put up on the fridge, and a few said they were planning on framing some of them. You can buy them HERE. Ten postcards for only $9. Enjoy!

Butterfly Wing

I decided to finish up this butterfly wing before starting in on the final panel of the mural. I started this one during a demo at an art fair in April and it's been sitting patiently waiting for me to finish it ever since.

This is going in the same building as the big mural, but it will be down the hall and around the corner by the elevators. It's one of a series of three 20" x 20" mosaics that will be hung there.