Lots of photo's of my latest creations

Lots of photo's of my latest creations for you today, just so you know I haven't been sitting around idle lol. Hasn't the weather been amazing this week. Just a shame I spent most of the time sitting inside doing all the things in the photo's for a craft fair today. Sadly the weather was so hot, people didn't want to wander round a craft fair, but it didn't matter I had a great laugh with the lady I shared a stall with. Starting with my trademark some mosaics, next two heat treated embossed copper panels, then a new line for me, stained glass panels with air plants. These air plants need no soil, just a dunk in water a couple of times a week. And finally some pen and ink drawings.

An update at last !!

I bet you all thought I'd forgotten all about my little old blog ......no way !! I've just been really busy working on my latest mosaic. It's taken me 5 weeks to create this little beauty and my first go at doing one that's not an abstract, and I have to say I'm quite pleased with it. It measures 20" x 15".and is for Redskin Tattoo in Bangor.

Towards the end when it really started to take shape it became almost like a drug, I just couldn't stop doing it. I even worked on it for 12 hours a few times too. I made a bit of a rod for my own back, as to get the effect I wanted I had to cut the 1" mirror tiles into 25 pieces, which was very time consuming as you can imagine. Even the 1 cm grey and irridised tiles I cut into 9 pieces each. I also decided to paint the background with a matt black enamel paint, rather than do the whole panel with glass. This was to enhance the effect of the shiny mirror tiles, and it worked, I'm pleased to say. I think I may use this technique in other mosaics I do, as it was so successful.

I've also got a commission for 3 stained glass sun catchers 2 crosses and a pentagram, and an oil painting to do too. The sun catchers are almost complete and then I'll move on to the painting which is half done. So I will probably have to go quiet again as these need finishing before Christmas.

Here's a photo of the mosaic just finished, hope you like it.

My latest mosaic

This is my latest mosaic and why I've been a bit quiet lately lol. Measuring approximately 18" by 30", I've used stained glass, millifori, mirror tiles, seed beads and glass nuggets.

I wanted something a little bit different for outside my front door, and this is the result. As it's exposed to the weather, I've used two coats of varnish to protect it. I'm also going to look for a nice plant to put underneath it, just to set it off.

I've already started my next project, this is going to be in tempered glass on a wooden heart, my oldest daughter got for me a while ago. This will be a piece that can be hung from a ceiling so it will be seen from all sides. As with all my mosaics it'll be a riot of colour.

The first two photo's are of the panel from the street, the next is the top half of the panel in more detail and last one is a close up of the bottom half.

Presenting my latest commission !!!

Finally ..... my latest project. As some of you might know, I was given a free hand with the design for this. The only thing requested was that I cover the guitar entirely.

Now this is off on it's journey to its new owner, I've started something new. A completely different type of mosaic this time. I'll be using tempered glass this time, a first for me, so an interesting project.

Latest suncatcher creations

The long ago promised batch of suncatchers :o)I have a paypal account for safe and secure purchases.

A stained glass two tone red pentagram, this measures 6" across and is £15 inc P/P


A stained glass two tone blue pentagram, this measures 6" across and is £15 inc P/P


A stained glass rainbow coloured leaf, this measures 6.5" long and is £15 inc P/P


A stained glass rainbow coloured twirl, measuring 4.5" across and is £10 inc P/P


Two stained glass ladybirds these measure 5.5" across widest part and are £12 inc P/P





And finally a host of angels these measure 2.75" tall and are £8 each inc P/P

Latest mosaic creation

Now my ramblings in Scotland are over it's back to work for me. So I've finished off my version of Pimp My Dr Martens Boot and below is the end result. Sadly, try as I might I can't capture the full brilliance of the colours of the glass and mirror which adorns this unique boot. This is for sale for £45 plus P/P ..... BOOT IS NOW SOLD and is going to a lovely home of someone who has a huge collection of Dr Martens, I couldn't be more pleased. :o)

Making progress

Today and yesterday were spent cutting yet more tiny glass tiles and starting to put them on the boot. I'm really pleased that everything seems to be going to plan so far. The boot is holding up with the weight of the glass, something I was a bit worried about, so all in all I'm pretty pleased so far.

I tried doing a charcoal picture from a photo of a friend sent a couple of days ago, but I wasn't happy with it so it went in the bin. I'd planned to have another go tonight but then realised that my oil pastels are still packed away in a box somewhere grrrrrr. Knowing my luck it'll be the last of about 6 boxes with all my art stuff in, so I might try using some watercolour pencils one of my sons gave me for Xmas instead. I'm not sure if they've got the colour range I need though as I want to do the picture in really vibrant colours .... we shall see later.