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The Basilica Santa Maria de Assunta in Aquileia, Italy started as a Church immediately after 313 AD. when the Edict of Milan put an end to religious persecution. From that day, the Christian community was allowed to build its first place of public worship. After the destruction of the first…

4x4 design - Roman Tile - 13 - Saint Romain en Gal

Roman Tile – 13 – St Romain en Gal

18 May 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, Process, Resources

Capital of the Allobroges The City of Vienne is one of France’s biggest repositories of Roman Tile work. Located 35 km (22 miles) South of Lyon, Vienne was originally the capital of the Allobroges, a powerful Gallic tribe controlling the commerce between Provence, Switzerland and Northern Gaul. Conquered in 121…

Meleager and Atalanta mosaic, unknown provenace, 1st to 3rd centuryAD

Meleager and the Calydon boar

27 April 2020

History & Archeology

Mythology and Hunting were a great source of inspiration for Roman mosaicists. The story of Meleager and Atalanta combines both mythological and hunting themes. We have several mosaic representations of it from San Pedro del Arroyo in Spain, Halicarnassus in Turkey Today let us have a look at the story…

Roman Tile 202 – Lalonquette

23 April 2020

History & Archeology, Resources

South of the Loire River, the Empire lasted… While Britain and Northern Gaule had been lost for the Empire since the late 3rd century, Roman culture and values were still very much alive south of the Loire River. In Aquitania, Roman Villas were still occupied and gorgeous mosaics still being…

How to create Color Gradients in Mosaics – Part 1

16 April 2020

One of the main problem of the mosaicist is to find the right color Even if some manufacturers of glass tesserae now propose amazing palettes, we do not have the ability to mix hues as a painter would. We seldom have more than 6 or 7 variations from one main…

Roman Tile – 203 – Lalonquette

2 April 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources, Unclassified

The Gallo-Roman villa of Lalonquette Close to the Roman road from Aire-sur-l’Adour (Vicus Iluii) to Lescar (Beneharmun), on the edge of the Gabas river, the Villa of Lalonquette is a well preserved example of an aristocratic establishment from the late antiquity of Aquitania. The site was occupied from the 1st…

Roman Tile – 04

24 March 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources

An other gorgeous but no so simple Roman pattern This Roman Tile 04 is quite elegant and gives an impression of volume. Here is an example using the 3 basic Red, White and Yellow colors Roman Tile – 04, 3×2 elements This pattern, or some variations of it, has been…

MosaicBlues at East River

14 March 2020

History & Archeology, Wearable Mosaics

MosaicBlues scarves are at East River I am so honored East River now carries some of my creations, beside the works of so many other talented artists and craftsmen. For the past 5 years I have been traveling the late Roman empire to study, research and document Roman mosaics, with…

Ktisis byzantine mosaic, unknown provenance, Met Museum

Ktisis in early Byzantine mosaics

9 March 2020

Discovery, History & Archeology, Resources

Ktisis – the process of becoming in 5th and 6th century Byzantine mosaics. The personification of Ktisis often appears in different contexts, religious as well as profane, in floor mosaics of the 5th and 6th centuries in Eastern and African cities of the Byzantine empire. Ktisis medallion, mosaic of the…

Roman Tile – 087

5 March 2020

All Frederic Lecut's Mosaics17 Works in Process8

An other gorgeously simple Roman mosaic pattern. This is an other simple and elegant pattern. Its architecture allows for 3 colors to be used. Roman Tile – 087, 3 x 2 elements This pattern has been used in many places, among them Timgad, the ancient Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi…

Mosaics

March at MosaicBlues

29 February 2020

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio

March in Rome Martius was the first month of the early Roman calendar. The original Roman year consisted of 10 months and counted 304 days followed by an unnamed winter period which length was not clearly defined. This calendar, borrowed from the Greeks, was introduced around 700 BC by Romulus,…

February

7 February 2020

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, History & Archeology, Works in Process

The original Roman calendar had only 10 months, and February was not one of them ! March the first month of the year and December (Latin decem=10) the last. This calendar was based on both lunar and solar cycles and was not accurate. It included extra days or month when…

Roman Tile – 002

1 February 2020

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Process

An other gorgeously simple Roman mosaic pattern. This is an other simple and elegant pattern. Plain bicolor, it has been used in many places. Roman tile-02, 3 x 2 elements It could be made of 2 different stones, a pale marble and a dark blue stone for example. I used…

Letting Go !

21 January 2020

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Unclassified

It is not always easy to let go ! Like most artists I put a lot of myself in my art. Because what I try to express, consciously or not, is deeply meaningful to me, I can sometimes get deeply attached to the pieces I have created. It feels like…

Hybrid Mosaics in 2020

3 January 2020

Design & Services, Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio, Trips & Visits, Wearable Mosaics

Happy new year you all ! Here is my first design for 2020. 26 Radiant Sectors, January 2020. It is inspired by the desk I am writing this article: a beautiful mosaic designed by Jean Pierre Soalhat, the man who inspired me to get into mosaics. Opus Sectile desk I…

Redbubble printed Gifts

27 December 2019

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Others, Resources, Wearable Mosaics

On Redbubble, high quality products derive from my mosaic creations and studies. Amba Aradam floor pillow The present Mosaic-Blues site is mostly dedicated to showcasing my own mosaics. It is designed for this particular purpose : Promoting my original works of Art. On my Redbubble page you will find products…

Wearable Art at MosaicBlues

30 November 2019

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio, Wearable Mosaics, Works in Process

No Big Piece in the tube ! I have not been working on big pieces in a while. Carola Sexta has been waiting in the Yard since last spring and I have been concentrating wearable art. These smaller pieces may require just as much effort to produce as big ones,…

Yezidi Mosaics in DC

20 October 2019

Events, Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Shows & Events

A genocide. When ISIS started their eradication campaign against the Yezidi people in 2014 they murdered a great number of boys and men and systematically enslaved and raped women and girls. Several hundreds of them are still missing. Many Yezidi escaped the terror by trekking through arid lands and became…

Lepus Vexus, Corinium’s style

17 June 2019

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Frederic Lecut's Mosaics

Once upon a time in Britannia The Corinium Beeches Road Hare mosaic dates from the 4th century. It was excavated in Cirencester in 1971. The Beeches Road Hare mosaic Hares and rabbits are often shown in other Roman mosaics, either part of hunting scenes, or feeding from grapes. We…

May at Mosaic Blues

27 May 2019

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Works in Process

Running full speed Things have not changed much since late March, I am still pretty busy, wishing there would be 36 hours each day ! ! For the past 5 weeks I have mostly focused on my minaudieres, building inventory for a group unveiling here in Alabama in early August.…

Process

All How to Mosaic21 Technical Videos5

How to create Color Gradients in Mosaics – Part 1

16 April 2020

Roman Tile – 203 – Lalonquette

2 April 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources, Unclassified

Roman Tile – 04

24 March 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources

Roman Tile – 003

17 February 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources

An other gorgeously simple Roman mosaic pattern. This is an other simple and elegant pattern. Plain bicolor, it has been used in many places. Roman Tile – 003, 3 x 2 elements It could be made of 2 different stones, a pale marble and a dark greyish-blue stone for example,…

Roman Tile – 002

1 February 2020

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Process

Roman Tile – 001

26 January 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources

In this post I will show you how to create a geometric background based on a Roman mosaic pattern. The method is simple, and you will be able to use it later for many other patterns I will later publish in this blog. This particular Roman mosaic pattern has been…

Roman mosaic patterns : the Rosace of Portici

10 November 2019

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources

A Roman mosaic relocated in a 18th century palace. The Royal Palace of Portici was built in the 18th century a few kilometers Southeast of Naples, Italy. It is located right by the Roman town of Herculanum, destroyed with Pompeii in 79 AD. When building the foundations of the palace…

Grout coloring

2 September 2019

How to Mosaic, Unclassified

Grout color is important. Beside protecting the mosaic, grout has a visual function. Just like the frame of a painting brings attention to it, grout is there to get people’s attention to the actual tiles. There are many theories about how you should use various colors to achieve different visual…

Principles of Opus Pixellatum

22 August 2019

Basics of grayscale Opus Pixellatum This a first post of a series dedicated to my Opus Pixellatum Technique © and the many variations it allows. It resshuffles a post created in my first mosaic blog a few years ago… This first post describes the original, basic Opus Pixellatum technique as…

Grouts and Thinsets

15 July 2019

All History & Archeology37 Life around the Studio6 Trips & Visits2

Grouts, Thinsets, and when to use them. Before synthetic adhesives were invented, since the beginning of the Art, floor layers and mosaicists have been using cement based Thinset Mortars and Grouts. This articles is about these materials and when to use them. It is not about how to use them.…

Discovery

Roman Tile – 005 – Aquileia

18 May 2020

Roman Tile – 13 – St Romain en Gal

18 May 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, Process, Resources

Meleager and the Calydon boar

27 April 2020

History & Archeology

Roman Tile 202 – Lalonquette

23 April 2020

History & Archeology, Resources

Roman Tile – 203 – Lalonquette

2 April 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources, Unclassified

Roman Tile – 04

24 March 2020

Design & Services, History & Archeology, How to Mosaic, Resources

MosaicBlues at East River

14 March 2020

History & Archeology, Wearable Mosaics

Ktisis in early Byzantine mosaics

9 March 2020

Discovery, History & Archeology, Resources

Roman Tile – 087

5 March 2020

March at MosaicBlues

29 February 2020

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio

Videos

Zellige mosaics

25 January 2019

History & Archeology, Technical Videos

A tradition dating back 12 centuries Zellige is the name given to the ornate and colourful mosaics that can be admired in many elegant buildings around North Africa and the Middle East. Temple Mount mosque in Jerusalem The craft originated in Fez, Morocco, in the late 8th century and it…

Mounting a Mosaic on Wood.

27 May 2018

How to Mosaic, Technical Videos

Ancient mosaics were directly built or mounted on stone and concrete substrates. I usually mount my mosaics on framed concrete boards, Hardi Backer in the USA and Vedi boards in Europe. I glue the mosaics on their support with thinset mortar and later fill up the gap between the tesserae…

How to Mosaic : Create a Grayscale Mosaic Model on your computer

14 February 2018

Design & Services, How to Mosaic, Technical Videos

In 2017 I created this mosaic portrait : Claire’s Mosaic Portrait I described the way this mosaic was actually built in my post : “Claire’s Portait” As I was using my Opus Pixellatum technique, I created a specific model by pixellizing my original picture : The cropped…

Double color simulations on Asian Face mosaic model

How to Mosaic : Color Simulations on Opus Pixellatum model

5 February 2018

How to Mosaic, Technical Videos

Opus Pixellatum is an amazingly versatile way to create mosaics. From one model the mosaicist can create many different mosaics. The possibilities are practically unlimited. Variations can be as basic as a systematic change of colors (Gray to Bluescale for example) to much more sophisticated manipulations involving other mosaic techniques…

Mosaics look better in Videos

12 December 2017

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Others, Technical Videos

Mosaics reflect light in a unique way Because they are not perfectly level, each one of the many tiles composing a mosaic reflects the light at a very different angle. That’s the magic of mosaics. Under an ideal light, they act like a Mirror ball ! Mirror ball – technically…

Events

All Classes & Seminars2 Community Projects2 Shows & Events5

Yezidi Mosaics in DC

20 October 2019

Events, Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Shows & Events

The Art of Mosaic

15 August 2019

Shows & Events

I am very pleased to announce that my work will be featured at The Peanut Gallerie From next August 22nd onto September 28th While “The Art of Mosaics” will of course feature many of my mosaics, some of them never seen until now, you will also be able to see,…

Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition

25 May 2019

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Shows & Events

One of my mosaics has been selected to show at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts The 43rd Montgomery Art Guild Museum Exhibition will be held June 1 through July 21, 2019. Carola is one of about 100 pieces selected to appear in the show, I feel very honored to…

A Liquid Mosaic

5 October 2018

Community Projects, Shows & Events

2009 – a liquid mosaic In 2009, Alyson Lyons created in Australia a liquid mosaic portrait of Mona Lisa. I reported the event in my previous blog post : Mona Lisa mosaic created with cups of coffee. Mona Lisa liquid mosaic, Sydney, Australia, 2009 3,604 cups of coffee and 564…

9 individual mosaics realized during the workshop

Fun at Bee Auburn Mosaic Seminar

30 June 2018

Classes & Seminars

Introductory Mosaic Seminar Many participants enjoyed building their first mosaic at the Bee Auburn Mosaic Seminar last Friday June 22, 2018 at the beautiful Auburn Arboretum. Texas Red Star Hibiscus at Auburn Arboretum We had set up tables under the pavilion for the seminar due to start at 5:00…

Bee Auburn Mosaic Seminar

15 June 2018

Classes & Seminars, Community Projects, Shows & Events

Bee Auburn Mosaic Workshop I will be leading a mosaic workshop during the next Bee Auburn event from 5:30 to 7:30 pm next Friday, June 22nd at the Donald E. Davis Arboretum in Auburn, Alabama. Participants will build a 6×6″ mosaic on fiberglass mesh and take it home where they…

References

All Press6 Testimonials5

Testimonial of a mosaic collector – Leda Kendig

24 February 2020

I received this week-end a lovely phone call from Leda Kendig. Leda lives in Ohio and received as a Christmas gift my Christos mosaic, which I made in the style of Greek and Russian Orthodox icons. Christos brings lots of joy in her home. I believe Art should be part…

Starry Night mosaic clutch frame

10 February 2019

Blog from my Supply4bags in Hong Kong January 1, 2019

2018 Press Kit

23 April 2018

The MosaicBlues 2018 Press Kit is now available to download … This Press Kit or Media Kit is designed for Media professional Reporters, Journalists and Bloggers. It provides essential information to get started writing about my Art and Actions . If you love my work and have professional friends who…

Featured Artist Frederic Lecut

8 March 2018

In good company… I am very proud to have my work featured last week by online gallery Artsy Shark. I feel honored and privileged to find myself in the company of so many inspiring artists working in many different media and invite to visit that page and the other artists…

Yoko HAMADA HOLLYFIELD’s Testimonial – Tesshu’s Dragon and Tiger

28 February 2017

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I love Mr. Lecut’s art work very much. These two Chinese characters (tiger and dragon) are originally written by Yamaoka Tesshue, the master of calligraphy, zen, and martial arts. It’s amazing to see that sensitive brush work in calligraphy can be transferred into the mosaics so brilliantly. I am sure…

Nathalie STEPHENS ‘s Testimonial

28 February 2017

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I love that Fred combined two of my favourite pictures of my children to make one mosaic. Ella Marie was 3 at the time the original pictures were taken and Davis Layne was 4 days shy of his first birthday. I loved both of the pictures because they capture my…

Geri RIPPE’s Testimonial

28 February 2017

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I love this mosaic yin-yang symbol of tai-chi made by Frederic Lecut. I have been a student of tai-chi with Frederic for about 12 years, and when I saw this mosaic, I absolutely loved it. My husband purchased it for me for my birthday and it has hung where I…

Becky SIMKINS’s Testimonial

28 February 2017

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Frederic Lecut of Mosaic Blues has completed the installation of my commissioned piece in my kitchen. It is so beautiful and incorporates the colours of my home. Looking forward to sharing it with visitors! Becky SIMKINS, Dothan, Alabama

Made in Alabama

6 May 2016

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Publication: Dothan Eagle Wiregrass Museum of Art exhibit puts spotlight on Alabama art Grenadier Tree of Life by artist Frederic Lecut, mosaic on cement board From Butch Anthony’s funky creations to Katie Baldwin’s woodblock prints and Cal Breed’s glass sculptures, the collection of Alabama art currently on display…

Frederic Lecut – a great mosaic artist (interview)

4 February 2015

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