Sunday, October 15, 2006
I made a very simple light catcher just to try out different kinds of transparent glue. It is not very good at close up but WOW it makes me smile when the ligh goes through it. I used only scrap ieces of artistic glas on this one. recycling you know :-)
I have been playing with glueing glass mosaic on boxes and glass objects. It is sort of recycling stuff which is very nice. The boxes were leftovers from my kids craft projects years ago and the glass bowl one that was from my youth that my mum put away on a major clering out of old stuff. I'll need I see to add a rim to the glass bowl and add some grouse to the edge of the lid of the multisided black and white box. Will keep you posted. I plan on using the glass bowl when finished for candy on the next exhibition in November and the blue and white hexagon one for my cards. No one im my area works with mosaics or glass except for painting on glass so I'd like to brin some objects just to show that playing with glass and mosaics is also an option for craft interested people.
Well I finally felt confident after the "animal" to really try out varied shapes and here is the result. i am very happy about the brick pattern for the sky. As you can see I combine brick patterns with basically using the squares diagonally for the mountain and more free forms for the trees. next I will show you it used on objects.
After the failure with the mosaic flowers, I wanted to try to make something very non geometrical and serched the net for patterns. Founds loads but they all had thousands of pieces. I then thought about crochet patterns which use limited squares and serched again and printed out some which looked very small. LOL when counting them out they too had way too many pieces even it I had cut every glass tile square up into 4. So I just started playing around and voila and animal appeared. My mum kept calling it "the cat" but as you can see this is more like some kind of australian desert rat related to kangarooes or something. What should I call it. All in all I was fairly happy with it.
For the past weeks I have explored different ways to combine and break glass mosaic. Here is the results.
For this one I put a brown tile in some cloth and broke it. I restricted myself to using tha pieces as the were without adjusting them at all, as you can see. Thus challenging my creative skills. But still most of it is just using the basic squares
I then wanted to explore furter effects: It did not turn out well. I first tried using white grout but that made the image boring. I then tried using grey but that "killed" the image as you can see. Well, I promisded you I would show you the failures as well as the successes. More in next entry.
