This evening's progress... I've been using the Laticrete glass tile adhesive (thinset mortar). This is the third mosaic I've...

This morning's work. Looking at it from both ends... A close-up... And a view without the distraction of my messy workbe...

Today's progress:

I've started a new mosaic today. I have a thin, white smalti pizza that I purchased from Mosaic Smalti that I've been brooding over...

I think I got a perfect sailboat cut for this mosaic. I wanted to make the sailboat first - for some silly reason it felt like if I got that...

I've had a few people ask about my process for working with stone in mosaics recently. Creating a mosaic with stone differs from other...

After several calls to Kokomo Glass, I finally managed to get some dalle de verre ordered -- probably way too much dalle de verre for my bud...

Is mostly finished. All I have to do is add the hardware for hanging it out on the fence. It probably won't go out until next spring, so...

Finished the bees' wings tonight. I'll be working on their bodies next. Should be able to get a lot of this done this weekend. ...

I have finished the Sheba mosaic. I decided not to trim the edge tesserae, but instead to let them hang out over the frame. Next I have a...

I haven't posted about the mosaic in a while. Earlier this week I finished the face and the hair, trimmed off the excess mesh and glued ...

This mosaic's name hereafter will be Sheba. I think it looks enough like Sheba to be titled with her name... I have taken some liberties...

Over the weekend while working on the mosaic I decided that I would have the hair on the portrait's right side (left as you're looki...

Spent the time I normally would have used to create this post before work discussing memorial arrangements for the wife of a friend. Very sa...

Okay, a bit of an exaggeration. I've only been working on this mosaic since April 1st, but I did have hopes of getting farther along on ...

Managed to get back to work on the portrait mosaic. There's a bit of a bounce-back from the camera flash, but this image is still pretty...

Yesterday I built handrails for the porch steps so that people coming to the art tour next weekend can come up and down on the steps more se...

Tonight's progress... I reworked some of the shadows around the dark side of the nose and added more smalti for the shadowed side of t...

Spent all day yesterday cleaning the house, and only worked on the mosaic today.  Not the best of photographs, but here is today's prog...