Mosaics – Moving On :-)

Ok, so the Apple coasters came out ok, the Rainbow ones were better (in my opinion lol) and now I had to decide what to do next!  As some of you may know I have a bit of a ‘thing’ about Dragonflies as you can see from this, which is available on my website.

One of my 3D Dragonfly pieces

So the next piece of mosaic work had to feature Dragonflies in my mind.  So I set to work.

Dragonfly wings – Check

Dragonfly body – Check

Background – Now this did involve a little bit of thought as I had a vision of a Dragonfly hovering over a pool of water in my mind.  So I dug out all my blue stained glass scrap pieces and spend a couple of hours colour sorting it all in to light, pale, medium and dark blue.  Then I had to cut a lot of very small pieces of each shade as I decided I wanted the glass to be lighter round the Dragonfly and getting darker towards the edge of the coaster.

Once all the glass was stuck in place they looked like this, not particularly good I’ll readily admit but the grouting work still needed to be done.

Part way through the process of creating a Dragonfly mosaic candle stand.

Once the grout had been applied they looked so much better.  I decided that a white grout would look so much better on these mug stands than black as I thought the black would overpower the design.

My Dragonfly coaster with the grout applied.

I’m seriously pleased with these and hope that other people will like them as well.

If you would like more information, say if you would like to buy one, you can click on any of the photos above and you will be taken to my website.

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