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I made these mosaics several years ago for an outdoor living space in Carmel, CA. Designed by the amazing Courtney Jordan Bindel for Jordan Design Crew. They were created out of vitreous glass, which was so tedious, but I think the effect worked out well!
This is a time lapse video of the first 13 hours of mosaicking my new project, tentatively named Copper I. To see the full first 25 hours with audio commentary describing the process and support my artwork, please become a Patreon!
This is a mosaic I was lucky enough to be able to create for a wonderful couple in Eagle Rock, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It was made to fit organically within their master bath design. This couple has a bold and beautiful vision of art. I was in love with them, their home, and their art as soon as I met them. I used stained glass, vitreous glass, smalti, Van Gogh glass, and glass gems to create a striking architectural artwork for their home, inspired by the stunning architecture of their home.
These 4th graders read and interpreted the wonderful book “The Quiltmaker’s Gift” by Jeff Brumbeau, which teaches the importance of kindness and prioritizing thinking of others over possessions. They used their character analysis to create warm and cool tiles for a classroom quilt wall hanging to decorate their school and their own individual squares to take home and give to someone special. This education & arts integration project was sponsored by ArtsinStark.
I made a mosaic montage several years ago, using David Bowie’s song “Breaking Glass”. It’s the most perfect song, so even though I needed to update the montage with projects I’ve done since then, I stuck with the song. I’ll be doing a lot more video, including exclusive videos for my patrons on Patreon, so I hope you’ll join! Just click the Patreon link below. Thank you!!
Credits:
Song by David Bowie “Breaking Glass”
DecoBall Lamp Designed by Kishani Perera for Rummage Boutique
Fireplace Mosaics designed by Courtney Jordan Bindel for Jordan Design Crew
Delta World Map photography by Yuno Cho at Studio Q Photography
Feather Cabinet designed by John Strauss for CMJS Creativ
Photograph of Afghan Girl by Steve McCurry
Afghan Girl collage is a collaboration with Tim Carmany
Krishna photograph by Jeffrey Boardley
These kids worked so hard to make these gorgeous glass mosaics based on the fable The Lion and the Mouse. They were second graders at Louisville Elementary School in Louisville, Ohio. The project was sponsored by Arts in Stark as part of their wonderful education and arts integration program. The designs were based on drawings the kids created after reading the story and the final 3’ x 5’ mosaics were permanently mounted in the school’s third grade learning center for them to enjoy the next year.
It was a challenge for these tiny little hands to work with pieces of Stained glass, Van Gogh glass, glass gems, and millefiori, most of which were smaller than a centimeter. They did such a good job of listening and working together and were deservingly proud of their accomplishments!
For more information and images: Louisville Lion & Mouse Mosaics
Video transcript for deaf or hearing impaired:
Hey everyone! So during these Corona times I’m waiting for some glass to be delivered from Italy so I can finish up a project that will go to Florida; it’s a large driveway mosaic. And in the meantime I’ve been working on some mosaic gifts for my family, but they are gifts so I can’t show those to you. So what I thought I’d show you today is, um, I am starting a new mosaic, a personal project, um, that is based on the idea of copper, oxidized copper. So I’m going to be picking out materials and I though I would show you some of the fun supplies I’m going to be working with and how I go about selecting them.
I’m going to start off with this gorgeous turquoise Bullseye stained glass as a base color for the oxidized copper. My stained glass is pretty accessible in my studio, so I will only pull out a few sheets for now just to get a range for my palette. I’m adding in a nice blue/green swirly glass, then the background color of the mosaic, which is a natural creamy glass, including some iridescence. Then I’ll add in the transition colors: earthy browns, including some with copper tones, and iridescent blacks with funky patterns. This stained glass array is the general palette.
Next I’m going to pick out some gems. Here I have a variety of turquoise to blue, including iridescent and translucent gems for depth, and some milky tan gems in case I need them for the background.
This is Hakatai Aventurine tile. It has gold streaks through it and will be perfect for this project
Here I have a variety of 5/8” tile from Sicis and Hakatai. To add different thicknesses, I’ve pulled out some thicker tessera: glass, ceramic, marble, and metal.
These super cute glass beads and tiles are only about 8mm. This is millefiori which means thousand flowers, ball chain, pebbles, agate slices and a bit of broken pottery I love, and some beautiful mother of pearl.
Finally we have the beads and found objects. When I had the idea for this series, I put out a call on Facebook and the wonderful Linda Broka was kind enough to send me these metal pieces. I haven’t experimented yet to see how best to use them, but I’m looking forward to it! I also try to collect a wide variety of accent pieces such as broken jewelry whenever they cross my path.
Next, I arrange everything into the color palette. You want a lot of variety when making a mosaic like this so that the final artwork has a lot of texture and depth. I have a good range of sizes, textures, thicknesses, and sheens, so I’m really excited to get started!
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