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Sweat and Tears – part 8
I have completed the tears on the other side. This is the side with the face. I found a photo of Jodie Williams on the web and I drew it and distorted it so that it would look like her reflection in the tear. Jodie Williams is a British 17 year old sprinter who will…
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Sweat and Tears – part 7 – or Buttering a Giant Ryvita and Eating It!
If you have been following my project progress for my Olympic sculpture “Sweat and Tears” , you might remember I mentioned the alarming noise when installing the mosaic tears to the form. Because of the curved shape of the tears the tiles make a cracking sound when pushed into the tile adhesive. I have made…
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Sweat and tears – part 6
I am working on the other side of the sculpture now, so I thought you might like to see the first side so far. The spaces between the tears will be mosaiced using the direct method. I think it is going to look quite glamorous don’t you? …. is sport glamorous? As I already mentioned…
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Sweat and tears – part 5
This is such an enjoyable project, I want to do more of these sculptures! I love the indirect process, it is so much quicker and a lot cleaner (especially for me as I am an extremely messy worker, which I expect you had already gathered if you have looked at my videos of making my…
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Sweat and Tears – part 4
Having already drawn around my polystyrene tears onto brown paper I can make them up indirectly. I could mosaic directly onto the surface of the tears but as some of my tiles are different depths, the indirect method will enable me to get a fairly level surface easier and quicker. I made 12 tears for…
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Sweat and Tears – part 3
I spent some time deciding on the best way to go about fixing the smaller tears onto the big tear. It would be easier to fix the mosaic onto the tears first and then fix them onto the large (cemented) tear, the other way would be to fix the polystyrene tears onto the large poly tear…
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Ammerdown Mosaic Course 2011
There will now be a short interval from the Sweat and Tears Olympic project while I bring you Ammerdown 2011! I am blessed once again to have wonderful students making it a great weekend! We pulled out all the stops this weekend and made mosaics for outdoor as well as indoor, and I demonstrated the indirect…
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Sweat and Tears – part 2
The next stage of the Olympic sculpture was to organise and order tiles. I want the sweat and the tears to look as if they are on skin, so the tiles I choose are very like water glass tiles – they have a coloured base with thick clear glass on the top, and represent the…
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Sweat and Tears Olympics Sculpture – part 1
This time last year I posted a blog about the Olympic sculpture project “Art at the Edge” and my involvement as a guest artist. Finally I have the time to start my sculpture for it. I decided to make a sculpture that would be about the experience of being an Olympic athlete, a study of…
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June Ammerdown Mosaic Course
It’s less than 2 weeks to go before my course at Ammerdown, and there are still some places left if you are interested in coming along. Beginners or those with experience can attend. You will learn the basic techniques and beyond, see a potted history slide show of mosaics through the ages, and there will…
