I received the following by email this morning... "Christmas card idea What a clever idea! Yes, Christmas cards. This is coming ear...

I'm going to wait until I get back from Sherri Warner Hunter 's 5-day Sculptural Forms workshop at the Chicago Mosaic School to con...

Here's the partially assembled sculpture of m'dusa. I need to make about 8 more tendrils - she's a bit bald in back. Once I ha...

It's a new mosaic project - I bet you guessed that...

I feel sort of guilty that I haven't been posting lately - I haven't been doing much writing at all other than for work or some of t...

It seems to me, after these past 10 days, that the death of a dear one makes us feel like we are ourselves lost. Tragic, unexpected, untim...

A great friend is gone and today, or tomorrow they are turning off the machines that are keeping his body alive. A new experience for me and...

My Las Vegas vacation is just about over. We've been here about a week. We've done some fun things and spent some great family time....

in a floating garden .

My interview on KQAL played today . The editor did a good job taking nearly 2 hours of material and coming up with a good 25 minutes or so. ...

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...

Click the photo and take a look at this slideshow of Abelisto & me capturing a swarm (with the help of Joyce and Paul). What a rush! ...

I've not been doing much work on the mosaic this month. I needed to redesign my website montagaelmay.com   and apply the design elements...

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...

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...