Mosaic Tile Cement

I was thinking recently about mastery. It takes people years to get mastery of any given task, or career, or athletic ability. I have been saving pieces for years to make a mosaic out of. I have another post about it...here

I hired Micha from Emerald City Mosaic to grout, because the mosaic took 4 plus hours and I wanted the end result to look great. He told me I had used the wrong adhesive. Who knew? So I made two and one half mosaics, because one fell off. Here is the one that fell off:

Making Art

I draw when I am waiting for things, like in a seminar, or at an airport...here is a sketch I made of a person listening in a class.

Here is a video I made while working on a project. I was quite engaged in making little cartoon people out of photos of people I saw in magazines.

Mosaic

I am working on a project I thought of several (5?) years ago. With my sister, Anita, we placed some tiles along the side of a driveway. It will lead into an art studio. Here is a picture of the beginning of the project. Still need to add grout.

Birds

Here is an image I'm enjoying. A bird sketch I made several years ago.

Community Service

Once a year, Windermere offices give back to the community by closing their offices and cleaning, painting, gardening in schools, parks, shelters and more. This year our office worked at Concord Elementary School located in South Park.

Beautiful and Small

Art in small pieces is often overlooked. Here is a piece by friend Sheryl Westergreen. It consists of 4 inch squares, and there are 35 of them altogether making up one piece of art. Very nice.

Thanks Sheryl.

Middle School Bullying

Wow. I volunteered for a committee at a middle school, on an "anti-bullying" committee and it was not what I expected. For one thing, we watched a video called, "Let's Get Real" and it blew my mind. Anyone who watches this powerful documentary will remember a time and place that they were either picked on, or picked on someone else. I then missed a committee meeting, so they put me in charge of the art poster contest. Whew! Too many hours of my slow computer time, and what an amazing result. Here are a couple of close-ups of the students poster art.