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...

More reasons to not use Flash on websites... Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Flash Actually, I look at Adobe in much the same way I look at M...

I've been reading about SB 1070 - the Arizona anti-illegal immigrant law. It's very alarming, and it makes me no little bit sick t...

One of the online discussions I participate in has sort of ground to a halt over the perceived direction of our country. To me it seems that...

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...

I've resisted using Picasa even though uploading photos to a Blogger blog creates Picasa web albums with the images automatically. T...

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...

Lest you think I am slacking... I am waiting on more smalti, which I ordered on Monday from smalti.com , which shipped yesterday, and should...

This photo was taken with a flash and the colors are a bit truer... There's a bit of flash bounce-back from the layer of plastic below...

One of the things I heard in the permaculture group meeting that keeps spinning around in my head was a wistfulness about being able to sell...

Tonight's work: And a close-up... It's a bit hard to see the colors of the smalti. Everything in the photograph is a bit darker ...

Just came from a Permaculture group meeting. I missed the first one (in Chicago at the SAMA mosaic conference ), so I was a bit out of touc...

Tonight's work... I decided to start with the eyes.

I've started the mosaic portrait - well I've done the set up for it. This is a black & white photograph, scanned at a high res...

Finished the glass work on the Dragon mosaic last night. Still need to put the hanging hardware on it and finish the edges.