Florida Butterfly on mesh, ready to fly . . .

This will be a small part of a Fort Meyers public installation done by Eve Lynch of Kraken Mosaics.

In natural light:

Under electric light:  

Iridescent stained glass tile furnished by Cathy Christo.  

More Butterflies to Fly to Florida

Couldn't resist doing more mosaic butterflies on mesh. Yesterday a dear friend gave me a bag of costume jewelry. Check out the butterfly bodies! They were part of a cuff bracelet and each link is made of three black faceted glass beads set together in metal. Two butterflies are red-orange stained glass and two are dichroic glass, one predominately pink and the other lime green. The dichroic glass didn't photograph well but the glass is fabulous.

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Another community project

Eve Lynch of Kraken Mosaics is planning a wonderful community project, a cloud of butterflies. I will be making three butterflies on mesh and mailing them to her for installation and I will show the progress here.

Her website is http://www.krakenmosaics.com.