Front surface done!

Decided to go with a red swash on the lower left for some pizazz. The strawberry is a family thing, as is the keyboard. The rest is just divine inspiration... :-) Now on to the neck and sides. I doubt I'll do the back. And what grout color? Always a hard decision. I'm open to suggestions!

Moving right along.

Want to do something different on the bottom left side, perhaps in red. We'll see what emerges.

Next step

Finally was able to figure out how to do the next stage. I cut out several sorts of brown "swooshes" for the lower left side, and nothing looked right to me. I sketched some ideas, I set something up at night and looked again in the morning.... very frustrating. Then something just come to me, and it felt good enough to cut and glue. Yay!

Blueglass Guitar Project

My latest, and fourth, mosaic project is progressing slowly but I'm having fun. I've learned some skills and tricks since my first projects, and I'm excited about this one.

We've had this old 12-string guitar laying around the house for years, and after seeing some mosaic'd ones around, I was excited about the possibilities. I wanted to continue using stained glass, which I learned about on project #3, especially since a ceramic guitar sounded way too heavy to hang on a wall.

I have so far been unable to create a design in advance. I had some basic line ideas, drew out some lines, collected some colors that drew me in, and set to work. I immediately felt stymied by not having a grinder, so sunk a bit more money into this hobby and bought one, which has allowed me to do things with a little more finesse. I decided not to grind everything, as that was taking way too much time, but just the pieces that needed it in the foreground, and here and there when my "nipping" skills are lacking.

Here are some photos from the past 3 weeks of work, beginning March 21, and ending April 11.