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New Portrait - Reverse Engineered Substrate

9/23/2019

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For my latest portrait, I used a method I learned last year at the Mosaic School in Spilembergo Italy.  

My reference was an original drawing, I  did earlier this year for Julia Kay's Portrait Party,  in graphite, water soluble ink pencils, and a touch of white acrylic paint.   

I began by enlarging and printing the image onto six 8.5x11 sheets of paper.  The image was then covered by clear plastic, allowing me to see the image as I adhered my tesserae (pieces), with a polymer modified mortar, directly onto the plastic.

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My materials were a variety of colorful Italian & Mexican smalti, including some luscious large riven chunks which I love, dishes, and slate.
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Once I finished laying all the tesserae, the real experimentation began.  Flipping the work & reverse engineering a hangable substrate.  Here's a time lapse of that process....
& Tada! 
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​I wanted to go BIG, and this portrait is indeed, the largest mosaic portrait, of just a face, I've created to date.
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Mosaic Self Portrait

1/24/2018

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My inspiration, beginning stages & time-lapse video of the creation of "Daydream", a self portrait.
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This was my 1st ever scratchboard portrait.  I really enjoyed doing it and liked the visual outcome, so decided to also create a mosaic from the same image.
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This is the watercolor and ink sketch I did on my substrate, in preparation for starting work on the mosaic.
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"Daydream"
​8" x 8" - stained glass, crockery, Mexican smalti & unglazed porcelain.
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