Together at last

Here they are together. I took this picture just before I mailed the purple dragonfly to its new home. I miss it, but I did not make it for me; it was meant for Connie. As you can see there are similarities in both of the mosaics, but they are very different. I hope Connie loves her mosaic.

Grouting the Blue Dragonfly

As you can see, below the mosaic is being grouted in blue. The grout almost always looks darker when you are applying it because it is wet.

Below I was applying the grout glitter in silver, blue and green while the grout was still wet. It adds a fantasy feel to mosaics. Don't you agree?

And now you have the finished piece. It still needs to be cleaned up a little, but it's done.


I'll be putting it up for sale in my store soon. It will be gracing my gallery wall until it finds a new home. I love looking at it; it's such a colorful, happy piece.

The Blue Dragonfly Mosaic is finished!

I had so much fun with this piece, and it turned out somewhat like I thought it would, only more unique and colorful than the original design. The iris's on the right popped into the picture right after the butterfly, and the large flower in the middle at the top of the mirror squeezed in at the very end. I was talking to my daughter, Christi and looked at a pile of stuff on her desk and there was a flower made out of different colors of fabric, and I knew it wanted to be recreated in glass. And so it was.

Two Pieces of Wood, Some Glass, and an Active Imagination

I decided to do an abstract fantasy garden piece. I love how the water appears to sparkle in the little pond at the bottom of both of the pieces when you see it in person. I had just completed a mosaic that had a tree in it that looked real. This time I wanted it to feel as if this wild, barren tree had just walked into this calm, pretty fantasy land and was being transformed by its surroundings...or considering the dark patches in the sky above, perhaps the tree was introducing a twist of its own. I had fun lining these two pieces up and having them flow into one another. Working around the missing knot of wood in the piece on the right, was fairly easy; I felt it added to the mosaic's uniqueness. This piece was done in glass tiles and millefiori.

Creating out of my comfort zone

This is a mosaic that I created in 2005. Another artist, Kate Murray, was talking about trying something that was out of her comfort zone. I hadn't worked with red as a focal color and I had never considered doing an Asian theme. I used beads for the first time in this piece. I also used dichroic glass, mirror glass tiles, and put pictures under clear glass from collage sheets that I purchased from Kate Murray of Vintage Charmings. I loved the way that this mosaic turned out, and became curious about the use of beads in mosaics.

You asked for it!

I took this photo outside without a flash but no flowers reflecting in the mirror, but the next best thing: me taking the picture :) Unfortunately, I don't think the dichroic glass of the dragonfly's body showed up very well in this pic. And each piece of glass seems to stand out which isn't the case when you view it hanging on the wall. It all appears so flat which is a shame because it glitters and shimmers in reality, but here is the photo you asked for.

A work in progress

I am working on a new mosaic, and it was inspired by the purple mosaic I created for Connie. I had so much fun working on that piece that I wanted to create another piece with insects and flowers. I thought it would look pretty in blue. Above is a photo I took of my work space at the beginning of this mosaic. Sometimes the drawings are very detailed with every piece planned out but not this one as you can see by the pencil drawings on the mirrored board. This one changed as I was inspired to create flowers that I have never seen or have never tried to make before. Below is a picture of one of the containers I use to help me to organize my glass and pieces I am considering for use in the mosaic. I will be posting the new completed mosaic sometime this coming week.