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New Portrait - Reverse Engineered Substrate

9/23/2019

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.

My materials were a variety of colorful Italian & Mexican smalti, including some luscious large riven chunks which I love, dishes, and slate.

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!

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.

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.

This is the watercolor and ink sketch I did on my substrate, in preparation for starting work on the mosaic.

"Daydream"
8" x 8" - stained glass, crockery, Mexican smalti & unglazed porcelain.

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New Portrait - Reverse Engineered Substrate

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