I made a series of matching mosaic stepping stones featuring flowering trees. Today I'm sharing the third tree in the series, my pink blossoms tree. While a flowering tree's spring flowers last for a week or so, this tree's flowers stay in bloom year round.
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| Image 1: Flowering Tree #3 Mosaic close-up |
In mosaic tree #3 I used pink floral mosaic pieces for the flowers. Pink floral china patterns are a favorite of mine, and I was able to reuse multiple tea saucers without matching teacups.
I tried to add dimension to this tree by using more dark florals in the bottom half of the tree (to mimic more shadowing on the lower part of the tree), but I think that effect turned out too subtle to be noticed.
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| Image 2: Flowering Tree #3 Mosaic Stepping Stone |
This tree (#3) has brown branches showing, which is the improvement I tried in tree #2, but the brown branches don't stand out as much here as they do in the more pastel tree #2. Still, I like the result, and this is possibly my favorite in the series.
(Maybe it's like children, can you say you have a favorite?)
Below is tree #2 in the series, (post here).
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| Image 3: Mosaic Tree #2 Stepping Stone |
And below is tree #1 in the series (post here).
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| Image 4: Flowering Tree #1 Mosaic |
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Mosaic Notes:
Mosiac work using broken china is sometimes called Pique Assiette, or picassiette. It's my favorite style, and the one I work in the most.
Here is a nice getting started tutorial on creating mosaics
using china - at Apple Street Cottage.
Click on the images to see them enlarged.
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Enjoy Summer days, and Summer vacations, and Summer flowers !
Here is a Floral Mirror I created...
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| Click here for my Flower Mirror Post |
Comments encourage me, and I like encouragement. Please leave a comment if you have time!
I have three large categories of posts:
Travel, China and China hutches, and Mosaics.
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