Bumping up my favorites

This is my favorite piece so far so I'm bumping it up in the queue to look at until I get this glass totem done. Whew, working on round glass is quite challenging. The GE Silicone II for windows and doors works great - - the pieces don't slide around at all - - but it is difficult to get out of the tube. My daughter gave me a neat little tool that fits on the bottom of the tube of silicone and rolls up as you go, so that helps enormously. Here are two views of my guitar, my most favorite of all things to mosaic. The second view is painted on the back. (click to enlarge)


©2008, Silva Hayes, Celebration of Texas Women in Music

Inspiration

Took our granddaughters to Fredericksburg and Kerrville this weekend and on the way back we passed a large steel sculpture of a steer. We've seen it many times but this time, I stopped to take a picture, and the sign said Benini Gallery 5 miles. Although we were tired and ready to go home I thought ''We may never pass this way again'' so we went down this old road which turned into a bumpy unpaved road that took us to the most awesome and awe-inspiring sculpture gallery, the Benini Foundation Galleries, Sculpture Ranch, 377 Shiloh Road, Johnson City, Texas, 78636. The last sculpture is entitled Mother Guardian and Father Guardian (my favorites). The one before that is entitled I Could Have Danced All Night. Here are a few photos . . .