New Art Deco - style Mirror

Meet "Red Ribbon"! I've combined glass - on - glass with an inlay technique to give more depth and 3D effect:

You can see the shadowing around the circles, which are placed on top. The red and the silver are inlaid into the background mirror. Size is 600mm x 650mm.

Another view. I've slightly elongated the photo to illustrate how it'd look in approximately 600mm x 900mm size.

 

New(ish) Dining Table.

We found (thanks to our lovely cousin Lisa) a dining table that fits our space much better. Square space needs square table! It came with swish chairs too - now we can actually seat 8 people in comfort.
However, being so large, it needed a super sized Lazy Susan so I made a 600mm diameter one, plus another 4 placemats, to complete the ensemble!

                                                       Many happy meals to come!

Petal Essence

Another new series! There's a lot more work in this than you might think - making the petals is quite time - consuming and also uses a fair bit of glass.
I think the result is worth it!

900mm x 600mm

Yes I know this mirror is sideways, but it's to illustrate that a lot of my mirrors can be hung either vertically or horizontally.

I can imagine this mirror at a wedding venue - the bride giving herself a final check before she walks down the aisle. It'd make a great photo to see her reflected in here, the white lacy design and the petals complimenting her dress!

A close-up of the mirror. You can see the iridising on the border and the swirls. Looks spectacular in the flesh.

                                                         Looks effective on a Lazy Susan too.

900mm x 600mm

Similar design to the white mirror, it can also be hung either way. The black grout accentuates the design I think.

                                                                600mm x 600mm


And now for something (not) completely different:

                                                               600mm x 600mm
Despite my best efforts this photo refuses to download in the upright position. Computers can be such jolly good fun sometimes.
Anyhow, using the bluish coloured glass of many hues puts a new slant on the design!

Detail of the above:

                                                                      Beautiful.




I know you're all breathlessly awaiting my next post, so hang in there (pun)!

Art Deco Style

I've been wanting to do something Frank Lloyd Wright - ish for a while, so I've made a couple of mirrors in Art Deco style. They're all 900mm x 600mm on the water resistant substrate, so you could display them outdoors.

Again they're impossible to photograph adequately, so I took them inside, put them on a stool, and used the ceiling as background.

Hers's an outdoor photo:

                                               The reflections are confusing to say the least!


Here's the same piece with the ceiling as background:

                                  Looks a bit flat and lifeless, but at least you can see the design.

Anyhow, here's another mirror - the rounded geometry caused me some headaches but the end result is pretty good I reckon:

And lucky last in this series:

You can see tantalizing hints of the different highlights and reflectivity even in these crappy photos. Just have to see them in the flesh at the galleries (or at home after you've bought one!)

AGOG over GOG GIRL!

My Glass Girls Series has just grown by two. They're twins - one is stained glass mosaic, the other is Glass-on-Glass. I call them Sandy and Shelley.

GOG Sandy

The GOG technique is a jealously guarded one that has been handed down through hundreds of generations of a mystical Nepalese tribe and only available to outsiders who complete a rigorous training regime lasting at least fifteen years.

Or you can use Mac Glue.

Sandy being a shadow of herself. You can see the texture of the background glass in the shadow.

                                                        This highlights her golden tresses!

 

                                                                      Beach Babe!




                                                                And here's Shelley:

                                                                      

                 Her swimsuit is mirrored glass and she's chosen a glass bead necklace to accessorise.
                                                            And those sunnies!

What girl wouldn't want a Millefiori handbag?

                                                             With matching shoes!

Queensland Garden Expo

We've decided to start attending "Event" markets rather than a weekly one, so for our first one we set up a display at the Queensland Garden Expo last weekend (6/7/8 July) at the Nambour Showgrounds. The Expo is the biggest garden/outdoor show in Queensland and we wanted to promote the business, our classes and hopefully sell some pieces.

Overall it was very successful. We talked and gave brochures to hundreds of people who would never otherwise have seen our work, and sold several pieces as well. The highlights for us of course were seeing all our friends who came to visit and to catch up with people we hadn't seen for ages! Hi to you all and thank you so much for making the 3 days even more fun!

It's a great Expo, and although we didn't get a chance to see it all, we did manage to sample a few of the culinary delights on offer..........mmmmm donuts........ It was also really nice to meet the stallholders on either side of us - Hi Lisa and Lee! If we do the Expo again next year I hope we get you both as neighbours again!

The weather was generally fine, but as a thank - you to all the stallholders the heavens opened right on closing time of the last day, causing great merriment to everyone as they packed up their newly soaked displays.

Some photos:

As you can see, there were times the stall was so busy Mark got squeezed out like a watermelon pip!

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!