After years of teaching 1,000’s of students how to mosaic my “original” dress forms, I decided to design a new dress substrate. I found what was missing from my original dresses, was a spot to tell a featured visual story. We pull away the curtains to reveal a strong focal story in which the rest […]
INSPIRATION, comes from so many places…
This year’s art retreat at Hacienda Mosaico was MAGICAL. I had 1 student, Elsa, fly in from Guatemala. Of course she wanted to learn how I mosaic my Signature dresses, but she found it challenging to find the materials she wanted in her home town. All of my students are so generous to one another […]
Painting with Glass with Susan Bass in Mexico
As y’all know I teach in PV, Mexico at Hacienda Mosaico every year (come join me in 2018!). This 5 day art retreat is the perfect amount of time to dig into a BIG mosaic project like this one. In March I had the honor to teach my dear friend and wonderful artist Susan Bass […]
FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH: Susan Wechsler by Sally Kinsey – January 2017
By Susan Wechsler on January 16, 2017 in Mosaic Dresses, my art, my studio, praise, press, testimonial, Workshops
Two years ago I had the pleasure of spending a couple days in a workshop Susan held in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was nothing short of magical! The setting we created in was in an old decaying church, owned by her father’s company. Even more memorable were the people and lessons that filled those few days. […]
Featured Student: Susanne Lane
Oh Susanne! What can I say about this creative soul other than she has an artist’s mind. She took her very first mosaic workshop ever, last October in Austin- my Master Dress Class. She has been a mosaic addict ever since. So all of my mosaic newbies out there who have been interested in making […]
FEATURED STUDENT: Diana Scott
Just got back from teaching 10 FABULOUS woman the art of mosaics. I am going to try to blog about all 10 dresses but, I am going to begin with the ones I have the most to say about their process. After all this is a “teaching moment” that I would like to share. Where […]
fancy words, a teaching moment
Andamento is the visual flow and direction within a mosaic produced by the placement of rows of tesserae. which leads me into what is tesserae: The plural of “tessera”, a name given to a piece used in a mosaic. Originally tesserae were the cubes of stone used in ancient classical mosaics, but now the term […]
FEATURED STUDENT: Susie Broussard
I had so much fun sharing all of my mosaic secrets with Susie, this was her vision for her dress: She brought these incredible vintage ceramic roses that we had to chip off of vases so that we could use them on her dress. We used my MAGIC PUTTY, ( I now sell it in […]
FEATURED STUDENT: Martha Rife
I had to BEG Martha to sign up for this class… Not because she didn’t want to mosaic a dress, she was just a bit intimidated since she had never mosaicked anything before…Well, that changed quickly, yes this is her very FIRST MOSAIC and yes, the “dinner jacket” is her second- WOW! I think I […]
featured student: Jacque Kudner
Just got back from a week in Michigan, teaching my dress workshop in Jacque’s private studio. This is one of my favorite ways to teach: so if you have a studio that can hold 8, and you always wanted to learn how I mosaic my dresses, well gather your friends and lets get this party […]