Alison Green Designs Mosaic Projects

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The last of the SMASH! exhibition commissions!

Retro birdbath as a thank you for Marg

A friend with a second hand shop often hands me a box of broken or chipped things for mosaicking. I made her this small birdbath as a thank you.
In progress ...

And finished ...

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Birchley's commission Feb 2013

Birthday birdbath using precious old plates Feb 2013

I was given three very old and precious plates with birds on them to smash and arrange in this birdbath commissioned for a friend's birthday. Breaking the centrepiece plate was SCARY! I turned it upside down and hammered away but the bloomin' thing wouldn't break!! Finally it broke in three pieces. Gingerly turning each piece over, I was delighted to find it had broken with each image intact and centred within each piece -- oh happy days!!

Then I broke the other two plates to extract the images to arrange around the edge.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Jaz's 'Serenity' birdbath

Jaz wanted predominantly turquoise then we added a little touch of yellow sunshine right at the end. She lives in an inner city highrise apartment so it will be interesting to see if passing birds visit her balcony birdbath.

'The Cricket Match' -- Wedgewood plate resurrected!

This Wedgewood plate - numbered and titled 'The Cricket Match' -- had fallen off a sideboard and broken into neat pieces. It now forms a beautiful centrepiece of a newly created birdbath of rich greens, subdued browns and highlighted warm red.

The owner of the plate has a private cricket ground in a small country town in the Hunter Valley. I hope eventually to add a photo of 'The Cricket Match' in situ in its new home with cricket match in progress nearby. Watch this space!