Mosaic patterns: how it all began My aged mother is a prolific and brilliant knitter who writes an almost daily knitting blog with a devoted following. At some point she must have been thinning out her knitting books because I ended up with several by the renowned knitting designer (and …
Classic and Contemporary Mosaic Workshop in Greece Six day mosaic workshop in Pelion, Greece, from July 5 to 11, 2020 AND October 10 to 17, 2020. For details, prices and bookings please go to the Lagou Raxi Hotel website and click the ‘classes’ tab at the top of the page. …
I’ve been thinking a lot about andamento recently, about the lines of tesserae from which all, or almost all, mosaic creativity springs. Straight lines, curved ones, long drawn out tapering ones, lines which twist and writhe, ones laid for emphasis, others to distract attention. Without lines a mosaic is …
Here is a short guide to get you up to speed on mosaic foundations – the hidden layers beneath ancient tessellated pavements. Mosaic foundations: five layers of making. Layer 1: The SURFACE I was standing in the Louvre, hunched over the mosaic of the Judgement of Paris, when a young …
The Garden Mosaic – from start to finish. This mosaic was made using the reverse method on paper and installed over an arch in a walled garden in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. The arch leads into an orchard where free-range chickens roam. Jenny Chapman, who jointly owns and runs Kirkennan …
Skin colour in ancient mosaics and why it matters This post is a response to an October 2018 New Yorker article, The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture, written by Margaret Talbot, which discusses the use of colour on ancient Roman and Greek statues. The article argues that academics have …
