Mosaic

I thought it might be fun to work on a pique assiette mosaic and post the progress and the process from the beginning but in installments. Something to look forward to for some and something to keep me from procrastinating. Because I do procrastinate sometimes. Doesn’t everyone? Maybe procrastination is too [...]

Continue reading about The New Pique Assiette Mosaic Buddha Shrine, Part 1 (In the Creative Flow)

Helen on August 11th, 2009

Now that the show is behind us and done, we’ve had a few moments to assess it all. And I must admit that we were quite pleased with our display which as I wrote in my last post required a bit of thought. We weren’t allowed to put screws in the bench anywhere [...]

Continue reading about After the Glendale Garden Show

In Mosaic Inspiration #4 I talked about the intuitive process to create an overall random design on a flat surface like a mirror. And if you’ve looked at our stepping stones you’ll see that I use this method there as well. I admit, I like working this way, it’s meditative and challenging at [...]

Continue reading about #6 in the Pique Assiette Mosaic Inspiration Series - Using Intuitive Design on Pots or How Not to Be a Control Freak

Helen on July 2nd, 2009

This weekend we’ll be packing up our tent, our mosaics and our sculptures once again and setting off for another show. We’ve participated in this one many many times. It’s always enjoyable and so far we’ve only had to take the tent down once when it threatened to take off like a sail [...]

Continue reading about The Gorge On Art Show

I like to dabble in all sorts of things, like to shake up my thinking a bit. Feng Shui was one of those interests that I took up for a time and I even incorporated some of its ideas into my home here and there. For instance the far corner of the [...]

Continue reading about #5 In the Pique Assiette Mosaic Inspiration Series - Feng Shui and the Foo Dog

Making a Pique Assiette mosaic can actually be a meditative pursuit.  Pique Assiette Mosaics are a type of mosaic made with dishes and found objects.  Part of the fun with this is wandering  through my huge collection of dishes to find pattern and colors that work together. The time spent cutting pieces of dishes or [...]

Continue reading about #4 in the Pique Assiette Mosaic Inspiration Series - Intuitive Composition

Meditation was something that I always wanted to do but never thought I could. I’d read about it and researched it a bit and decided it was not for me. Me, empty my mind? Don’t think so. Find 30 minutes to meditate more than once a day? Uh uh. [...]

Continue reading about #3 In the Pique Assiette Mosaic Inspiration Series - Meditation, the Bowl and the Buddha

This next piece is another favourite in my series of mosaic shrines . The shrine is on the wall next to our bed and is the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. I love the serenity of my Geisha ladies.
Floating away from the shrine [...]

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