Bumping up photos of mosaic stairs

Completed August 2009. My largest mosaic project so far:

©2009, Silva Hayes, River through the woods

These stair risers are mosaiced onto Plexiglass rectangles with a hole drilled in each end of each one. The risers were installed after all the work was completed. The mosaic is a mixture of stained glass, vintage jewelry, broken plates, and various bits. Little children love to slowly climb them and point out snails, fish, butterflies, dragonflies, and turtles that live near the water.

Stair risers (by request) completed in 2009

I will give a talk and demo about mosaic art to some fourth graders on March 25 at Bee Cave Elementary and I will take these photos with me. These stair risers are a real attention getter; various delivery people and workers, neighbors, people selling candy bars - - they are all so interested and complimentary. Thought I would post these pics again (and hopefully I will do something productive soon so I can post some new pics)!

The top eleven:


The bottom five:

Installed!

Grouting: the Home Stretch

I grouted the river today; plan to grout the forest tomorrow; seal and install Thursday! Yay!!!

I'm bumping up a photo of the stairs in progress

Each one has a few personal things incorporated into it. Friends and family have given me little things over the last few years, like a dichroic earring that lost its mate, a bit of a friend's grandmother's broken necklace, a cabochon from a necklace that I gave my mom 40 years ago, etc. There's a little turtle like the one we have, and a couple of roadrunners like the ones that live here.