Big Guy turns black with grout

I am halfway through grouting Big Guy. Here I am with grout all over me in my garage. I didn't have any sponges so had to use old t-shirts to clean off the grout. Since he is so big I didn't have time to finish all of him. I think he is looking pretty good.

Thanks to Matt for taking the photo!

Amazing what the sun can do...

Yellow Spider - Measures 27" x 42"

Put away the glue

I've been slacking for the last week and haven't mosaiced at all. But I am now pleased to announce that all of the pieces are glued on Big Guy. Two steps remain: grouting and painting the frame. Since he is the size of Montana, grouting should take about two hours. All of the glue needs to be super-dry before grouting so he'll be resting for the next week or two.

In the meantime, I've got a piece that I'm trying to salvage from disaster. I'll introduce you to her in the next post - that is unless she takes a turn for the worse and I just have to put her out of her misery.

"I don't have the vision"

My Mom is at my house. I told her she didn't seem that excited about Big Guy and her reply was, "I don't have the vision like you do." When I started to laugh, her follow-up comment was that she can't get excited until they're grouted.

I have a clean slate - I need opinions

Back to working on the last corner of Big Guy - for real this time!

Leave a comment about any suggestions on what color to make the frame - I'll be using black grout.

Rinse and repeat

The pieces of glass that I removed from Big Guy's corner have been cleaned of glue and are ready to be reapplied in a new and improved design.

Here they are in the rinse cycle.

Unfortunately a hand wash and dry was necessary.

In the washing process I got a wicked cut on my foot - long story. I'll spare you the picture of toes and blood since I actually like it when people come to the blog, but man, Big Guy is causing a lot of trouble.

I'm insane

I finished the last corner of Big Guy this weekend (yea!) and then decided that despite the corrective surgery I just wasn't happy with the one corner (not so yea!). The three other corners had a swirl pattern so the non-swirling corner was totally bugging me.

This leads me to the picture. I basically saturated the glue with water and then used a screwdriver to pry up the pieces. I only ended up cutting myself once so that was exciting. The pieces of glass are now soaking in water to get the last bit of glue residue off.

A little more structure than my normal style

Measures 20" x 16"