Faded Macaw Moodmat
A rainbow macaw drawn with a glassblower’s color sense, die cut across twelve inches of recycled rubber. Art by RJ Glass, signed on the front.
The Print
A Bird Drawn Like Blown Glass
The bird faces left and the beak takes up nearly a third of the piece. It is banded in broad rainbow stripes from magenta at the base out through blue, green, yellow and red, with a row of white dots punched along the top ridge and a soft pink patch where it meets the face. The head and body carry the same gradient running head to tail, the folded wing is drawn as a stack of banded feathers with white edges, and the tail sweeps off to the right in a long fan that fades yellow to orange to red.
Everything is lit the way glass is lit. Hard white highlight strokes sit on the top of the beak, the curve of the skull, the shoulder and every toe, with soft color-to-color blends underneath instead of flat fills. Two pointed crest tufts stand off the back of the head, and down at the bottom the feet wrap a perch with the toes drawn in separate colors, a red teardrop and a magenta shape tucked under them. The signature, RJ GLASS in white block letters, sits out in the open at the lower right.
The eye is the best thing on it. Concentric rings of color wind inward to a small dark center with a bright glint on the upper rim, which is exactly how a glass marble reads when you look into one. It is a small piece of the drawing that tells you what the artist actually does for a living, and once you have seen it you cannot unsee it.
Designed By
RJ Glass
Signed twice. RJ GLASS is lettered on the front in white, and the back carries an RJ monogram drawn as a small character with an eye in it, followed by an x and the moodmats logo. The color language on this print is a glassworker’s rather than an illustrator’s: everything is a blend rather than a flat fill, every hard edge takes a white highlight, and the eye is a marble.
Made in New Jersey Since 2009
Rubber That Already Had a First Life
Moodmats started with scraps from old wetsuits and discarded scuba and surf neoprene, material that was headed straight for a landfill. That became Lava Rubber, and Lava Rubber is what every Moodmat is cut from. The feedstock now comes from wetsuits, gaskets, weatherstripping, seat molds, and other clean scrap that gets collected or donated. More than two tons of it moves through the New Jersey shop every month, gets pressed into sheet stock, then die-cut and screen printed. Keeping that material out of the ground has been the point from day one.
Closed-Cell Neoprene
Closed-cell rubber does not drink up what you spill on it. Water, reclaim, and terp splash sit on the surface instead of soaking in, so a wipe with soapy water puts it back to new.
It Stays Put
The rubber grips whatever it is sitting on and grips whatever you set on top. A rig that would skate across a glass table or a finished desk stops moving the second it lands on a Moodmat.
Tough and Self-Extinguishing
Heat resistant, self-extinguishing, and built out of material that already survived a first life. This is not a printed coaster that curls after a month on the table.
Where People Actually Put These
It Does Not Have to Hold a Rig
A Moodmat protects a surface and grips what sits on it. Whether that thing is a banger, a camera, or nothing at all is up to you. They are called Moodmats for a reason. Pick the one that matches how you feel and put it wherever it belongs.
Rig and Glass Pad
The job it was built for. Keeps glass off hard surfaces and keeps hard surfaces off your glass.
Display Surface
Figures, models, controllers, dice, cameras, watches. Anything worth setting on something intentional.
Wall Art
Plenty of these never touch a table. Hang it, frame it, or pin it behind the setup and let the print do the work.
Desk and Everyday
Trivet for hot pans, landing spot for keys, pad under a pet bowl, cushion on a camp table.
Why It Matters
Runs End. Prints Do Not Come Back.
Moodmats print in runs, and runs end. Once a design is out, it is out. Artist collabs and drop exclusives regularly land in quantities of ten to twenty five pieces, which is why the people who collect these track drops, trade them, and frame the ones they will never put a rig on. If this specific print matters to you, the time to grab it is while it is still on the shelf.
Signed on the Front, Marked on the Back
The front carries the artist signature in white and the back carries the RJ monogram over the moodmats logo. There is no numbered box on this one, so we are not claiming a count. What we can tell you is that it came out through a live sale rather than the moodmats store page, and that we have one.
No Reprints
Moodmats does not go back and run a sold-out design again. When this one is gone from our shelf and theirs, the only way to get it is from somebody who already has one.
Worth Hanging
A print this limited does not have to earn its keep under a rig. Plenty of these end up on a wall, in a frame, or stacked with the rest of a collection.
The Details
Specs and Care
| Size | 12 inches at the widest point, approximate |
| Shape | Die-cut to the artwork, beak, crest, wing and tail included |
| Material | 100% upcycled closed-cell rubber, Lava Rubber stock |
| Screen printed, full color, standard ink | |
| UV | None. Standard ink only |
| Artist | RJ Glass. Signed on the front, monogram on the back |
| Edition | No run number printed |
| Release | Live sale exclusive, not a regular catalog item |
| Origin | Made in New Jersey, USA |
Wipe it down with warm water and a little dish soap, then let it air dry flat. That is the whole routine. Do not run it through a washing machine or a dryer, do not scrub the print with an abrasive pad, and do not rest a lit torch or a glowing-hot banger directly on the surface. Use a stand or a puck for anything still at temperature.
Straight Talk
Know Before You Buy
Upcycled Means Variation
The rubber is reclaimed scrap, so base color, speckle, and surface texture shift slightly from sheet to sheet. Two mats of the same design will not be photocopies of each other. That is how you know it is the real material and not virgin stock.
Heat Resistant, Not Heatproof
The rubber is self-extinguishing and handles warm gear without complaint. It is not a torch pad. Park anything still glowing on a proper stand or a quartz puck, not on the print.
No UV on This One
Standard ink, full color, no reactive application. A blacklight does nothing to it. Several Moodmats in this drop do glow, this print is not one of them, and we would rather say so up front than have you plug in a lamp and wonder.
Die-Cut Means Irregular Edges
The outline follows the bird, so you get a hooked beak point, two crest tufts and a fanned tail instead of a clean rectangle. The listed 12 inches is the widest point, not a uniform footprint. The tail feathers are the narrowest section, so treat those the way you would any thin piece of rubber.
This Is the Exact Mat You Get
One of these exists at this shop. The photos are of the actual piece in hand, front and back, so what you see is what ships, down to the speckle in the rubber.
Set the Mood
Recycled rubber, made in the USA, printed with art worth looking at. Free shipping on orders over $75, and every order ships from a veteran-owned small business.
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