Vignettes

A new way to use our many picture frames . . . 9.5" square

"Feather" (passport to the angelic realms).  This feather came from the studio of Suzan Germond.  

The background for the feather is textured stained glass.

 "Good Luck"

"Honey Bee in the Flower Garden"

Second in my campaign for Awareness of the Plight of Our Bees

"Jewels of the Sea"

These and more mosaic art will be at Annii's open house on October 11.

8512 Silver Ridge Drive, Austin, Texas, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.  

Annii hosts an open house every fall so that we can display and sell hand made items for Christmas gifts.  Annii is such a wonderful artist; she recently designed a new tee shirt logo for UT, its debut was at their fashion show at the UT Co-Op this week.  For sale now at the Co-Op.  

Mixed Media Exotic Wood Bark from Galveston Beach

Mounted on 10.5" x 10.5" wood with wire hanger

Back from the beach

Just got in this afternoon from a week in Galveston -- the weather was nice and hot, the traffic was plentiful, parking was scarce, and the prices for admission and food seemed to have doubled in the last two years.

The dolphin boat tour was reasonable and fun.  We were lucky to see lots of dolphins.

We ate lunch yesterday at The Original Mexican Cafe on the corner of Market St. and Christopher Columbus Blvd. and it was excellent.  It opened in 1916 in a building constructed in the 1880s.

The granddaughters are still in Galveston with their mom and won't be back 'til Sunday.  We came back through Houston and it was a driving nightmare for two reasons: horrible, misleading, confusing freeway design, and lots of mean, aggressive drivers.

I found some weird and wonderful exotic wood bark washed up on the beach and will be making some kind of funky mixed media art with it.

Granddaughters asleep on futon with Daisy the guard dog

Granddaughters on beach in Galveston

Passion

Passion - framed and ready to hang:  (click to enlarge)

Sea Journey

Click to enlarge . . . The first photo shows the framed canvas turned over, Wedi installed, mosaic applied onto the Wedi.  I liked working with this canvas because it is unusually deep so I can use all levels of tesserae.  Note the drapery glass.  The blue glass in the upper right is rolled back onto itself, and makes me think of a wave.  The second photo shows the stained glass frame added.  Next I will grout using sand-colored sanded grout.