Latest Piece

This is my latest piece - a 900mm x 600mm mirror utilising several different elements to create the flowing silver cascade effect:

Here are some photos of the detail:

The stars are made from diamond bevels. I apply Brightback to really make them pop.

Using Brightback again. It gives amazing life to any textured glass.
I still haven't decided on a name for this piece yet - watch this space!

More Budding Mosaicists!

I taught my Beginner's Class to another lovely group of people yesterday! Here they are with their completed projects:

It was a cold, bleak day outside but the creative energies kept it nice and warm inside the studio (and the fire going in the house helped too!). Thank you to everyone for coming, and I hope you all enjoyed the day as much as I did teaching and getting to know you.

Nambour Garden Expo coming up!

It's only another 3 weeks until we have our stall at the Queensland Garden Expo at Nambour. Billed as the premier sub - tropical garden event in Queensland, it attracts huge crowds over the 3 days of 6, 7 & 8 July.
We have decided that rather than commit to a regular weekly market, we'll attend what we call "Event" Markets such as this one. Last week I sent some photos to be included in an advert we are placing in the Official Guide for the event. The Guide will be included in the Wednesday July 6th. edition of the Sunshine Coast Daily and also given out to market attendees.
Here are some of the photos:

 This panel is called "Palm Beach". I'm currently working on a similar piece for a Comission.

 This is a Lazy Susan called "Crystal Elements"

                                                 Another Lazy Susan called "Flutterbys"

MAANZ Polymer Clay Day

We had a wonderful day yesterday in my Studio - I held a Polymer Clay Workshop for MAANZ members. 7 girls and one guy (Hi JIM!) attended and I think I've set a lot of them on the path to becoming Poly People!
Barbara, David and Tammy also came to lend support to Mark in the kitchen, and he showed them the dark art of installing hangers in Marmox board while my workshop was running.
The day ended up raising over $400 for MANNZ, which will go towards the cost of our exhibitions etc.
All in all a truly fantastic day, and just reinforces to me and Mark what an exceptionally talented and sharing group we have; we're privileged to know you all!
On to Barbara and David's place next time for David's photography workshop. It'll be a beauty!

Studio News

Here's the newest piece to emerge from the Studio.

It's a full - size (1250mm x 600mm) Argentum Curves Mirror which hangs longways.

It's a commission for a local client who's buying it as a wedding present for herself!

It's been photographed as best I can, but you can't take a photo of a mirror from front - on 'cause guess who you see in the mirror! At least I can crop those handsome heads off the top!

More Budding Mosaicists

Here's a shot of the latest happy Glass Mosaic Class graduates with the creations they made on the day.

There's still room in the may 12th. Class, so if you want to take that first step to making your own Mosaic masterpiecses, book now: (07) 5499 9502 or glenmark@internode.on.net.

Smashing Idea

OK, so you take a full sheet of tempered glass, hit it with a hammer (under strictly controlled conditions and very safely) and firstly you get a central area of intensely cracked glass as used on the Lazy Susan.

The rest of the sheet cracks in many fascinating ways and can be used any way you can think of, as in the Dragonfly.

As far as how to keep it all together and getting the colours into it, I could tell you but then I'll have to kill you.........

Might offer a class on it one day!