my 3 panel piece, etude, was accepted for the mosaic arts international 2008 juried exhibition, which will be held april 3 - 30 at the bakehouse art complex in miami, florida. this year, 180 artists in 7 countries each submitted from 1 to 3 works for this exhibition, and the jury selected 64 pieces for inclusion in the exhibition. i am very pleased and honored to have one of my pieces included. click on the thumbnail to view the full image.

i hope to see you in miami!

here is my latest work... just finished it up yesterday (click on the thumbnail for full image). i call it pulse, subtitled i'll meet you there. this piece was actually a distraction from another project that i was not completely happy with. i thought that it would be fun... an experiment... something that i wouldn't take too seriously. and it was... until i started really liking it... then it became too important.

oh well... i do like the way it turned out, and i loved playing with the mix of textures and colors. i just love a vertical andamento... i have no idea why that is... so i just went with that and played around with the mix of materials and heights. i had to pay attention to try and keep the lines straight with all the different materials, but overall did a pretty good job.

too bad the photos don't pick up the sparkle of the faceted beads that i used, or the iridescence of the iridized tiles.

there are pics of each one of the 3 in my wall art portfolio, with more detailed info.

greetings all! i am wishing everyone a joyous and peace-filled holiday season, and a very bright, shining new year!

it is a nice time for me right now... between christmas and new year. my 18 year old is working for his dad... they hired him to be webmaster (is that one word or two?) during school, he will work part-time, but now he is taking advantage of being able to get some extra hours. my 16 year old is just hangin' out here at the house... reading, playing and listening to music, etc.

santa was pretty good to me... i received 3 mosaicsmalti.com gift certificates... what more could a girl ask for!?! i hope he was good to you too!

i was able to spend several hours yesterday on my latest mosaic attempt... which was pretty nice for a change... and should have a few hours as well today. i hope to finish this one this week... will post photos asap.

my vegetarian chile was the best chile i have ever made!... in my opinion anyway. my 16 year old does not entirely agree... he thought it had too many vegetables... weird, huh? but my mother- and aunt-in-law, and my husband, who are fasting until the orthodox christmas on january 7, seemed to really like it... mission accomplished!

well, i need to go dry my hair and take advantage of the mosaic time i have... my very best to you all!

here is a mashup... i only just learned what that was a few weeks ago... that my oldest son, assisted by his brother, created. basically, a mashup seems to be putting audio from one movie/source with video from a different movie/source... often done with movie trailers. these mashups are very interesting, and apparently a lot of people are doing them... with varying degrees of expertise. this one is done with the pirates of the caribbean: at world's end trailer and video clips from harry potter and the order of the phoenix. my guys have been having a lot of fun putting them together, and it really is a lot of work! this one turned out very well... and its got a few surprises!

enjoy!

here we are... these are much better pics of daisy and misha. the 1st pic is daisy, our beagle mix, and the 2nd one is misha, our shi-tzu/sheltie mix. they seemed more than happy to pose for my iphone camera, didn't they?

a bit shameless of me to plug my iphone, isn't it? its just that... i have never really been one to get into the latest tech device... i never even got into ipods... my husband gave me a little ipod nano that he got as a gift at some conference, and i only used it when i travelled. but this iphone is sooo cool... and it does take reasonable pictures. i am an official apple convert now, it seems... i purchased my first computer ever... for myself... and it is an imac... i love it!! i am hooked!

have a good week, y'all!