Happy New Year to everyone reading the blog. 2013 already, and the wet and dreary weather is not conducive to spending time in my shed come workshop but I'm so engaged in the piece I'm working on that I've been layering up in warm clothing and getting on with it. I should also mention that glass hates being cut when it's cold and it shatters and splinters more easily so my running commentary that I keep up to myself when working has been using words best kept private!
The piece I'm working on currently is a heart shaped form incorporating a head and brain design. Odd topic for a mosaic? Maybe so, but I'll reveal the whys and wherefores in my next blog when I hope to show a photograph of the finished work. Meantime having had a false start using a direct application method which just means applying the pieces of mosaic material face up the way they are in the finished work, I'm now using an indirect method, often called the reverse method because you make the mosaic by placing the pieces face down initially, the great benefit being that one can use different thicknesses of material and still end up with a flat finished surface. There is always the extra excitement of the big reveal when the work is turned up right side up - and hopefully all the pieces stay in place when the work is flipped over! More of that too in the next blog. Now, back outside.......
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