I finished up my son's Dragon-fly mosaic today. He sketched it for me a few weeks ago and I converted it into a mosaic for the mural using stained glass.
Here is the original sketch:
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| © 2011 Eve O. |
And here is the finished mosaic:
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| © 2011 Eve O. |
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| © 2011 Eve O. |
I'll be adding this "butterfly" to the wall the next time I'm up at the Calusa Nature Center...maybe this coming Friday or over the weekend.
I also squeezed in a little bit of work on the big alligator that will go underneath the main butterfly cloud. As I was working on it, I thought I was making decent progress but I can see from the photo below that I still have a lot of mosaicing to go!
Luckily the glass pieces are much larger than usual.
Still more work to do!
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| © 2011 Eve O. |
I have been so busy with The Butterfly Project installation that I thought I was going to miss the local Zombicon deadline this year.
I've been exhibiting undead artwork at the Dark Art show that coincides with Fort Myers' Zombicon for the last 3 years and I was unhappy that I was going to break my streak. I just didn't think that I was going to have time to make the September 1st deadline.
And then it hit me...zombie butterflies!
Here's what resulted from that epiphany...
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| "Morph" undead butterfly necklace © 2011 Eve O. |
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| "Meta-MORGUE-phosis" undead butterfly necklace © 2011 Eve O. |
Also of note, artist Silva Hayes was so enamored with making butterflies that she made one for her own residence and installed it on the side of her house!
See...
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| © 2011 Silva Hayes |
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| © 2011 Silva Hayes |
I have to admit that I really love making butterflies too. If they start popping up all over town, you'll know where to come looking!
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