When the storm came yesterday evening, Tuffy P moved her mosaics operation from the deck to mosaics central. She finished it off while I put my feet up and watched the first ever episode of Columbo. If you haven’t seen any of our mosaics before,… Read More
The new mosaic is complete! Here are two shots in different light conditions. Because of the nature of some of the materials used, the bird takes on a slightly different appearance depending on the light and up the position of the viewer in relation to… Read More
We’re starting a new mosaic project. Actually, we’re starting three of them. Today I cut out the shape for a grackle mosaic and we’re starting to source tiles and crockery. Although the grackle is a black bird, there is lots of colour in this bird.… Read More
I cut out the shapes for the two cardinal mosaics this afternoon. That’s Shadow making sure he’s in the shot. We then paint the back and sides of the wood with a good exterior latex. In the past we had been using spruce ply, but… Read More
We have quite a few cardinals living in our neighbourhood. In fact we’re really enjoyed watching them out the window from right where I’m typing. They come to the tea cup bird feeders in the canoe garden for sunflower seeds. For our next mosaics, we’ve… Read More
…still working on our crazy bear
Work continues on the grizzly bear mosaic. Tonight, I’ve been working on the face….
We’ve started into the mosaic grizzly bear. Sometimes when we do these mosaics, we’ll both work at the same time. Other times, and this is the way we’ve been attacking the bear, we do alternating sessions – Tuffy P does a section, I do a… Read More
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