GENEVIEVE
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"Pride"
Based on
Erte's Seven
Deadly Sins.
Above is the sketch I made, complete with grid, then scanned into the computer and colored in Adobe Photoshop
.My first mosaic project ever, I laid her down in the sweltering summer of 2001 over about a month.
I used the indirect method, which in retrospect I wouldn't do. I used the grid to recreate the mosaic on brown paper in life size (she's almost six feet tall).
The tiles are then lightly glued onto the paper upside down (as if you're buried under the mosaic looking up).
Next I cut the paper into squares and flipped each section tile-side-down onto the cement-board floor, which is covered in mastic glue. Finally, I filled in the spaces between tiles with black grout.
Genevieve: An Online Portfolio