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.: June 2008

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View my complete profile. Tuesday, June 24, 2008. What did we do for fun this past weekend? Drive to our favorite of all places, the Institute of Mosaic Art in Oakland, and take a class in Italian Smalti from director, Laurel True. As far as Smalti goes, it's is a gorgeous medium. Jan and I might even finish the projects we started in class, next year sometime;) Do suspect that having a background in painting greatly adds to the end result. Check out these painter/smalti artists: Lynne Chinn http...Goodn...

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.: April 2009

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View my complete profile. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Latest Mural Project in Studio. Yes of course, but while Jan and I like to sculpt neither one of us has any experience sculpting the human body. Enter our 26 year old friend, Nora Schwaller, who is finishing her BFA in Ceramics at San Jose State. Nora, aka "Bird Girl" (self explanatory when you view her body of artwork) can sculpt the human body, no problemo! See below. Nora's not bad when it comes to birds either:). Arms will go here. Whereas, if some...

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.: Painting in mosaic.

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View my complete profile. Thursday, March 21, 2013. Down at the studio, I dreamed of San Miguel de Allende in neon and painted pure south of the border. And when all that painting was done, I recognized there was no end to embellishment and started mosaicing the walls. Your life.a self made Alice in a wonderland,. How lovely your Mum has fostered such an artist. Always your fan always your friend. Arent I lucky to have found you. March 21, 2013 at 9:26 PM. You are an amazing woman, Julie! Hand wall yet t...

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.: Architectural Mosaics

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View my complete profile. Saturday, April 7, 2012. Mosaic Diamond Wall Finally grouted! A little more than a year of working diligently on the 8 X 8 foot wall in the studio courtyard, and it's finally finished. Inspiration for this wall came from textile artist Kaffee Fassette. Photos of his beautiful chunky diamond mosaic pattern make up the liner on the inside cover of his book, Mosaics: Inspirations and Original Projects for Interior and Exterior Design. Portion of Hand Wall in progress. Well, if all ...

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.: February 2009

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View my complete profile. Saturday, February 14, 2009. Friday, February 13, 2009. This year we needed to deal with a section of the studio that had been part of our last year's remodeling endeavor, and never quite finished. The rust colored cement floor in this area was in need of some serious sprucing up after being battered with drywall and plaster. Flower Pot for Andrea's Web Site Award. As one of the artist to artist awards for this web site's January Greeting Card design contest. Welcome to my studio.

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.: April 2008

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View my complete profile. Tuesday, April 29, 2008. For the Love of Mary: Work completed, Work in progress. A Virgin of Guadalupe tile purchased in Albuquerque is the centerpiece of this large mosaic retablo. Made in 2005 with a variety of handmade ceramic pieces, glass beads, broken china and talavera tile, it frames a window in the Nunez house. Both of us have always been attracted to images of the Virgin Mary. Meanwhile, there are two new Mary mosaics sitting on the production line:. A neon azalea beck...

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.: Jan's Mermaid Mural

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View my complete profile. Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Latest Mural Project in Studio. Yes of course, but while Jan and I like to sculpt neither one of us has any experience sculpting the human body. Enter our 26 year old friend, Nora Schwaller, who is finishing her BFA in Ceramics at San Jose State. Nora, aka "Bird Girl" (self explanatory when you view her body of artwork) can sculpt the human body, no problemo! See below. Nora's not bad when it comes to birds either:). Arms will go here. Whereas, if some...

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.: April 2012

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View my complete profile. Saturday, April 7, 2012. Mosaic Diamond Wall Finally grouted! A little more than a year of working diligently on the 8 X 8 foot wall in the studio courtyard, and it's finally finished. Inspiration for this wall came from textile artist Kaffee Fassette. Photos of his beautiful chunky diamond mosaic pattern make up the liner on the inside cover of his book, Mosaics: Inspirations and Original Projects for Interior and Exterior Design. Portion of Hand Wall in progress. Well, if all ...

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.: September 2008

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View my complete profile. Thursday, September 4, 2008. August heat hit and along with the insufferable weather, a variety of life interruptions and responsibilities put our creative pursuits on hold. Jan and I haven't been seriously at work for a month and the place looks like an archeological site, all those bright beads buried under layers and layers of dust. A few small endeavors while on summer sabbatical. Finished the Mary Retablo with a background of black smalti. And a funny looking chili pepper.

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.: April 2011

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View my complete profile. Saturday, April 23, 2011. Getting back to Blogging. Hts and open windows all around. Cabinets from the old house got repurposed in the studio and a bank of new cabinets installed ringing the windows. End result- more storage space than a deluxe kitchen, which didn't take long at all to fill to over flowing with our collection of odds and ends. Ntal tools for the precise archeological excavation of the many textured handmade tiles. As a girl who never works linearly, this isn...