We just finished a new batch of tea-time bird feeders…. In case anyone is wondering, the drawings to the left of the bird feeders in the top picture are by our pal Anthony Stagg.
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The Cat Door
Most of the mosaics we do are done as a team, but this one is Tuffy P’s baby, start to finish. The door is a perfect support for a mosaic!
Bird is the Word
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
New Bird
We’re starting a new mosaic bird – a goldfinch. Today I cut out the shape and Tuffy P sealed the sides and back.
Kitchen Mosaics
Tuffy P is at it again…. Note the sleeping dog in the front hall…har!
Suggestions?
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
New mosaic
We’re planning a new mosaic. We want to try some new things so this time we’re talking about a plant/floral motif, again on a shaped ground. We haven’t done any drawing for it yet – still in the discussion stage. We improvise a lot as… Read More
Mosaics on Pinterest
I decided to create a Pinterest board for the mosaics Tuffy P and I do. At this point we’ve made several of them, mostly birds, and I wanted to group some photos in one spot in case anybody wanted to see the work. Until we… Read More
Finishing up the Blue Jay
We’ve just finished up the blue jay mosaic. It has to set for a while before we’ll be able to move it and get a good clean photo, but you can get the idea of what we’ve been up to here. This mosaic is a… Read More
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