That is just absolutely gorgeous. I can see the bee! Can't wait to see the blue.

WOW! I knew I'd find something spectacular when I saw your name.
Renee

OMGoodness - spectacular. YES YES YES - the bee - so natural looking. I wouldn't even have the ability to envision such a poppy field, much less bring it off so successfully. Outstanding work, NT.

Yes it is looking great!!!

Wow, this is really amazing! I'm having fun checking back and watching the progress. Like slow time lapse photography. LOL Can't wait to see the next installment.

thank you all so much... well I'm scared to go on with the sky, just not real confident in andamento. I decided on a crazy paving to prevent any regular geometric looking grout line and flow but I've only done it once before on my DD's portrait and still not thrilled with that... its my cutting skills - I'm no Sonja King! lol

No, you're BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Based on your past work, it can't be anything but fabulous.

(not to put any pressure on you, hahaha)

haha thanks Slow and Silva.. I think! lol

Have you picked out the blue yet? Pale blue or dark or a mix? I can't wait to see the beginning of the sky!

WOW!!! This is sooo detailed! Love it! Can't wait to see the sky!! My mini project, I added a poppy cuz of you!!!heh heh!

Absolutely gorgeous! Can't wait to see what you do with the sky - that's an area that has me flummoxed too.

Cutting and andamento have stopped me continuing on one project. Doing sky and water freaks me out.

This post was edited by drtdgr on Sun, Dec 30, 12 at 17:12

Nice, there's a photo of a mosaic that some young man did and it's posted on CMA and I have looked and looked and can't find it. It's the sky, the sea, and a boat, and I love the way he did the sky. Random, but when you look closely, the pieces all seem to be five-sided, but all shaped a little different. Anyway, how about the background of Sonia King's Permafrost?

Of course I meant in pale blue, not white, but I like the way it fits together.

yes! Silva i know I saw that same seascape somewhere but I thought it was someone's photos of a show somewhere??? and it WAS the inspiration for what I think I'm doing too. I THINK mine will have varying sizes according to closeness of the clouds... I've started placing the whitest areas of the clouds but am not glued yet. the blue decisions are already made according to the pieces I had in my youghiogheny glass purchase and i'm pretty happy that I seem to have a wide range of tonal values of the same blue... so now I just have to play I guess. Thank you all for the compliments here, truly I appreciate all your imput

cloud andamento?

You never disappoint - always a surprise. Unbelieveble! Perfection.

lol one mosaic artist on facebook called me insane!

Beautiful. Can't wait to see the blue!!!!

Wow, I wouldn't have thought to do the round tess. Just shows you there's a lot of ways to express scenes with glass.

I love the organic shape of the clouds. I echo silva's comment - can't wait to see the sky! Susan

I think the blues will end up similar to the water in my koi table but without the shadows... it will work like the clouds with larger on top and getting smaller toward the horizon but with a center vanishing point,,, hoping to create that feeling of expansiveness

What color grout? Maybe more than one color?

Beutiful!!!! I Love it!!

Silva, I'm thinking green in the flowers with white in the clouds and blue for the sky

Sounds perfect!

I can't wait to see it when it's done!

well now I've used my light blue and white glass and don't like the darker tones I have... I'm either going to try and find more of this same glass or I'm switching to that cool fogged glass which will have that fog coming in look...

What you've done so far is wonderful.

OMGoodness - look at the gillion little circles you've cut!!! How about some wispy off-white? You'll like what you've done once all of it's in and grouted.

Okay well, its not permanent yet but this is what the foggy transparent glass looks like,,, I think I like it... PITA to cut though cause its got little air bubbles in it and they throw off the break sometimes

I've seen the bubbly glass before while cruising for new glass. I think it's very cool.

Living in the Pacific Northwest gives me a lot of exposure to fog. I've been wondering how it can be replicated.

I have a vision of a stand of alder trees in the mist.

I've been impressed by a mosaic depicting the Cascade Mountains using a version of foggy glass with the grout lines delineating the form of the mountains.

Looks good to me.

drtdgr, ooh that would be awesome... this glass sure would work for it too. I bought this sheet on Susan Turlinton's advice, we were at the Youghiogheny factory and she pointed out the affect you get when you layer it on another color, said she thinks Kelly Knickerbocker uses it a lot in her layered abstracts. Since I got it I've been thinking about it looking like ice and think it would be cool to put it over alcohol ink painted fall leafs and build some or parts of them in matching sg like the froze half in and half out of ice...

Sheesh! I liked that blue sky! lol! Love seeing that koi table again!

Wow, small world, nicethyme. Kelley Knickerbocker is showing her works at the Seattle Mosaics place I go to.

I was wondering why they cost so much! I'll have to look at them again. Susan

KK is a groundbreaker where mosaics are concerned...

I know Jane, I did too, wish I had more of it I would have done it all in that one,, alas I am out

finally done cutting and fitting. now I have to glue all that fogged glass down

This post was edited by nicethyme on Sun, Jan 27, 13 at 10:18

LOVE that background! I can hardly wait to see it glued so you can set it upright and we can see it lit from behind!! WOW, even your background is "fitted"! It just raises the bar!!! Love the poppy heads!/stems! Of course those leaves are super amazing!!! All the colors are super, and the bit o blue is so great! Sheesh, just can't say enough good stuff about this piece, it hits every bell and whistle I'd want!

Thank you J, I am very excited about this window... I am planning a super cool frame treatment...

I'm grouting today

This post was edited by nicethyme on Fri, Feb 1, 13 at 15:11

I think I'm done.. but of course lighting in my basement stinks so I'll shoot pics of the whole thing tomorrow in natural light (and back lighting)

OVER THE TOP Wonderful!!!! Love the crackle paint!!! Love that color and the grout colors too...WOW!!!

Oh wow, can't wait to see the final pic! It's beautiful . . .

YAAAAY I'm done! this one was hard to get through, but I'm pleased.

That is so gorgeous. I just don't know what to add to that.

Same comment I posted on Flickr - as my late friend Carol - known on this forum as Flagtruck - used to say to me when she thought I'd done something great - YOU HUZZY!!!!!

Yes, you nailed it. Gorgeous.

OH HA HA HA HA HA love that one Slow! and thank you everyone.

Yes to what every one said .So so so cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely STUNNING! Beautiful piece.

B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.!!!! as Slow would say!...lol!