Mid Winter Flight
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landscape | leaf mosaics | mosaic art | photography | skies | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
Together We Grow
As I watched the sun go down over the hill one evening, it shone directly through the middle of a tree in the distance. It seemed as if it had burnt a hole right through the tree and the leaves around it gradually changed colour from orange to green. The photo I took didn’t reveal…
mosaic art | skies | trees
Guardian Ash
The Somerset Guild of Craftsmen’s next exhibition is called “Whither The Ash” – it appears to be a very topical theme at the moment, not surprisingly, as we are still losing our beautiful trees. I can’t exhibit my sculpture of “The Last Tree” (see last post) made in response to this issue at the Guild…
leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
The Embrace
My sun and tree mosaic is finished. I had to redo the leaves because I originally made them onto glass that I cut slightly bigger than the leaf parts laid onto it. I did this as a way to make the grout line around the leaves quite thick, however it just resulted in looking clumsy….
leaf mosaics | mosaic art | sun mosaics | sunsets | trees
Thank God for Chocolate Coins!
You won’t believe the trouble I had trying to find suitable gold foil for the underside of my sun! In the previous post I showed you the transparent smalti laid onto some gold foiled tape. I thought this is the stuff I would use, I have a big reel of it, however it is sticky,…
Soda Trees and Violins
We all know how refreshing it is to look at kids art. Unrefined, naive, thoughtful and completely original! Sometimes artists try hard to bring that naivety back. Some succeed but others fail, perhaps they have learned too much about techniques and the world in general. Maybe the best way is not to learn the techniques and not…