mosaic 2 almost done

one more leg on the star to go then grout and seal

center is a money clip the scrap yard dude gave me awhile back

i tell you what, i have more respect for those artists on that work of art show, cuz i had a few days to think about this and have had 9 days so far to work on it and honestly it isnt spectacular.  its cool...but the more i see it near completion the more i see what i would do if i had the time to think about it and play with it.   one of the other phoenix commotion peeps from last year did a star for one of their projects which i saw just last night on flickr.  check it out here, and notice they made it such that it looks more 3-D.  its very cool.  now if i had time and could sit there at the scrap yard and divvy up silver vs gold.....maybe i could have played around with that.  or maybe in the center i could have done more of a spiral or something.  i didnt.  and now what i see is a chinese checker board when i look at this. i see someone who doesnt really understand mosaic.  its simple.  flat.  bleh. 

maybe no one likes what they do when the pressure is on.  i dont feel that way about my own art 9 times out of 10.  i guess i went outside of my comfort zone and this is what i did and thats good enough.  next time i will know better.  next time if i were to do a shower out of bullet shells like i did, i would have cut them and made them shorter  and not stick out so much.  in a masochistic way i hope that i get a next time.