Here’s a little progress report on the new bird mosaic… We started laying in the darkest and lightest values and the beak. Since this is a goldfinch, much of it is yellow, and the how we treat that is going to give this piece its… Read More
I love this poster for an upcoming Very Be Careful show in LA… I think this band would be a lot of fun to see live. They play Vallenato. It’s about time I featured some accordion music around this joint, don’t you think?
Yesterday Tuffy P did up two more cupboard panels as part of her grand kitchen mosaic madness.
My next door neighbour Bart sent me an email today containing this remarkable video. It made my day. I think it might make your day too.
This is a small oil painting – I think it is 12″X9″. This one was kicking around my studio unfinished for a really long time. I left it up on my painting wall but I had stopped working on it ages ago. I thought I… Read More
I was living in a storefront studio on Ossington Ave back in the mid-eighties, half a block up from Queen. It was set up with a painting studio at the front and a couple built-in bookshelf dividers behind which was my little living area.Then back… Read More
I’m looking for a quick and easy way to break old crockery and tiles into tesserae for mosaics. We bash items with a hammer and we use nippers to do more controlled work, but when you’re doing a large mosaic, creating the little bits is… Read More
Here is a small (it’s only about a hand-span wide) painting called Lost Forest. Oil on Canvas.
This afternoon, I drove up to Cookstown Ontario, about a 45 minute drive north of 27th Street to meet Dena Lee and visit her shop, the Story Gourd Workshop. I’ve wanted to do this for some time since I found out she was making gourd… Read More
The only thing left to do on the mosaic blue jay is screw in some hanging hardware, and where that goes depends on the angle at which it’s going to hang.
27th Street 