Wednesday - Midweek Progress

 It's Wednesday and there's a new mosaic in the works. Yay!

I've been thinking a lot about wildflowers. I wanted to do some mosaics using my doodles as inspiration and although I draw flowers and they are certainly wild, they aren't really different. The design shape is the same. So I looked through some coloring pages and got a good idea as to what I wanted to try.

Then I had to figure out what to do the mosaic on. I have a few panels but I'd like to try one on a square glass vase I have in my stash as well but not for the first try. I wanted to experiment a bit.

I pulled out a Jack Daniels bottle (empty) and painted it with primer. Clean, white slate. I chose this method because I had a really hard time getting the labels off of this bottle. Some come off easily and I know all the tricks to get them to do so while others seem to have one purpose and don't want to give it up just yet.

I drew on the bottle and started in on the work on Monday. Here's where I am so far.

My favorite part on this so far is using the border of some plates (the pink and green pieces) as vines and stems. It's going to be fun filling in all the flowers with dish pieces. I'm enjoying this journey.

I also, of course, have a slew of doodles but instead of sharing them all, I thought I'd just show a few.

Until next week ... ☮

Enjoy the journey.

 Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics

https://artbyearthmothermosaics.com

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From The Studio - Wednesday

I've been working on secret gifts lately so I haven't been able to share much. I am sharing what I've been working on now, which is a birthday gift for my son-in-law but he rarely haunts my news feed on Facebook nor does he read my blog posts, so I'm fairly sure I can share his gift here. On Friday, I'll share the other gift I made because it has been shipped, delivered and well-received.

I'm always looking for great shapes to mosaic on and we always have a bottle or two around here to use. In truth I have 6 empty wine bottles washed out and ready to do things on and have more to use, plus decanters, whiskey bottles and a few other assorted cool looking shapes in bottle form.

My SIL likes whiskey and saved a Four Roses bottle for me last year. I've been pushing it around on the shelf for all that time until it told me it was ready to become a mosaic. His birthday is this month, so that was exactly what I needed to hear.

I used dark purple and chartreuse stained glass, iridescent black glass, silver and green mirror, ball chain and tempered glass.

I put tempered glass over the roses emblem. I considered leaving them exposed but in the end I felt I needed to add glass.

WIP - front

Front - Almost finished

The back is pretty nifty looking too!

Back - Ready for grout

Now it's ready for the grout pile and I think it's awesome. I hope he does too!

Front

Back

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