February 24, 2008
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Mosaic: Work in Progress
We're down to the last few sessions in our art class, and last time we started a mosaic project which is supposed to take a few workshops to complete. It's not often that I run into a new medium which shakes my artistic confidence (drat you, film photography!), but I have to say I was a little shaky when it came to planning out my design. I'm also not all that patient; I like to sit down and begin a project, I rarely take a break, and just generally stick it out till I git 'er done. So I came to class last time with a bag of doodads and buttons and with a general idea in mind, and the teacher supplied the rest of the tiles and the frame itself. When i finally sat down with my hoard of stuff and a blank surface to work on, I found myself feeling stumped. Trying to be deliberate about the arrangement was no good at all. The best bet, i found, was to stick stuff on willy-nilly and see what evolves.
Here it is so far:
And some closeups:
Freshwater pearls and an octopus.....
A pendant I made from my Nine Divas series....
A funny bottlecap, vintage plastic flowers, and a czech glass button...
I glued a photo underneath the iridescent glass drop. At certain angles she vanishes under the reflection, and then reappears like a nymph in a pool of water.On tuesday, we're going to grout our creations. Here's hoping it comes out well!
Comments (7)
That's really cool. I'm glad you put up the details too! I like it! I really love the disappearing woman and the octopus. I've been planning to do something like that myself. Seems like it would be easier if you had a set day and time and help to figure it out the first time lol. Maybe I'll get to explore mosaic this summer! I have kind of been planning to try. Please post the finished product
I always imagined this would be a good thing to do with wooden tea boxes - - maybe with buttons...ya, red ones....
This really is tres cool. It'd make a lovely gift...for oxy's grandmother in Maine.
HOT iDEA!!!!
Very nice project!
@cestmoe - haha, you are so smart. I have some tea boxes RIGHT HERE, as it happens, and was thinking they might be fun to do.
oops....I meant ugsy's nana.............
I like the colors. I almost always work with cool colors. I can't wait to see it "grouted".
It looks very awesome without the grout so I'm sure it'll only look that more awesome.