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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 (individual pieces), with a polymer modified mortar, directly onto the plastic. |
Once I finished laying all the tesserae, the real experimentation began. Flipping the work & reverse engineering a hangable substrate.
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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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