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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 8.5×11 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.
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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!
