On your mark, get set....

The big weekend has arrived well one of the big weekends anyway.
I will be installing my mural this weekend it's an outdoor project and it's cold here high of 42 tomorrow right on the cut off. I would love to have volunteers- anyone?!?
I am pretty sure all the toes are in the right place..

Open hearted

The waiting place...

...for people just waiting.
Waiting for a train to go
or a bus to come, or a plane to go
or the mail to come, or the rain to go
or the phone to ring, or the snow to snow
or waiting around for a Yes or a No
or waiting for their hair to grow.
Everyone is just waiting.

oh Dr.Seuss how I do love you!


Like it or not I am in the waiting place but I am trying to make it okay.....


"I'm afraid that some times
you'll play lonely games too.
Games you can't win
'cause you'll play against you.

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not,
Alone will be something
you'll be quite a lot."

Quiet

I have a little break between projects I have been wanting to combining my fusing, mosaic and my little cutouts.
There is a story in here somewhere...

Finished and gone!

Wow, 2 solid weeks of work! the pieces put together are 3' x 10' they will stand vertically I have yet to see them that way as my ceiling is not that high. Hopefully I will get a picture one day... If anyone lives in Chevy chase Maryland...
We got them all grouted and cleaned today and the courier arrived about 10 minutes after I photographed them. No time for the Minnesota long good bye!

I might take tomorrow off from mosaic and play with glass again...

Layering

The Experiment continues,

two layers of glass with paint and glass frit on all 4 sides then fused together and this is what you get!

A new commission starts tomorrow so only one more day to play!

Conversation

I am interested in pattern, layering, transparency and storytelling

I love the speed of glass fusing... Painting, layering and firing...trying to get to the answer to the question... And never quite getting there.




I like how glass changes depending on what is behind it.


I am a person of few words, I have always felt uncomfortable with language, either verbal or written. Yet I love language, I love to listen and to read. My voice comes out mostly in my work, it is often laced with metaphors and illusions but it is also straight forward.


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triangles

Playing with glass again, while I have a little down time- today's influence triangles!

Huipil memories

Long ago I used to live in Oaxaca, Mexico...

I am enjoying these little simple exercises in line drawing on glass- no thinking, no pre-planning, no erasing and no judging...




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It's the texture!

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It's something about glass....

I am not certain why I can't just paint on canvas or draw on paper

Instead I need the alchemy of glass, it's more expensive, it takes more time and sometimes it explodes...

still at it/ back at it!

After a lovely week in Northern Minnesota where it still snows...
I am home mostly doing paper work but trying to squeeze in a little art work,
these are small glass tiles 5 x 4. I so wish it was not so difficult to shoot glass...grrr to much glare!

She who is me

I am desperately trying to finish a piece that is due tomorrow and I am having technical difficulties! So this is an older piece I am hoping her energy will
Help me get through the day.

heads up!

getting closer....

more drawing on glass/in glass

Balancing act

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The many things I do not understand...

I will limit this post to glass fusing, Not to the mysteries of the universe, time travel, love, child raising, gardening, politics, global warming, healthcare reform......

I am primarily a mosaic artist working in vitreous glass tile, ceramic tile, plates and various other found objects. But I like to experiment with everything. For the last several years I have been teaching myself glass fusing. I work with bullseye glass Coe of 90. I like the company, love their website all their fact sheets, videos and artist gallery and the glass itself is wonderful to work with great colors and so many possibilities.

What I have found repeatedly BUT not every time is if I attempt to fire a piece for the second time it often explodes, case in point.








I added a little more black glass paint (glassline) to some areas then added a clear piece of bullseye glass and fired it according to my previous firing schedule. ( which I won't go into unless you want to know) When I opened the kiln this is what I saw. Busted superhero!








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The extra piece of glass made my drawing line much clearer, just like I wanted. But the expansion of the glass and the breaking of the glass... Not so much... I need to spend some time with the books and see if there is an answer... I suspect I need to slow the firing w a y down. My total firing time has been approximately 15 hours, ramping up at 250 per hour up to 1450.

The lesson is slow down and keep reading ...

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Alison Saar

Another of my favorite artists! No words tonight just images


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Great goddess of love

Back to the portrait she change a LOT from what I thought she was going to be....still in progress

Joyce Scott!

One of my favorite artists!

Her pieces serve as a commentary for issues regarding race, politics, sexism, and stereotypes. Of her own work, Scott has said, "I believe in messing with stereotypes...It's important for me to use art in a manner that incites people to look and then carry something home - even if it's subliminal..." She received her B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art and M.F.A. from the Instituto Allende. Her work is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Mint Museum, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum

You can see more about Joyce Scott here on the Craft in America web site