Life around the Studio Archives

January Mosaics

16 February 2024

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio

birds, duck, ducks, geese, goose, jazzband, music, palmtrees, street music

January Mosaics under Ducks supervision ! A French expression for “It’s freezing cold” is “It’s ducking cold” Do you know why we say that? Of course you don’t, so…

Guerrilla Mosaic installation

26 October 2023

Frédéric LECUT

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, How to Mosaic, Life around the Studio, Mosaics, Resources

cement, ciment colle, guerrilla, installation, mortar, mosaic, mosaique, romaine, thinset mortar, tutiriel, tutorial, video

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MosaicBlues’ Guerrilla Mosaic The idea of the guerrilla mosaic came to me during the COVID confinement period, I was living in Alabama at the time. I spent a lot of…

Happy New Year

31 December 2022

Frédéric LECUT

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio, Unclassified

bonne annee, carrelage, cascade, design, Gallo-roman, happiness, mosaic studio, new year, pattern, remodeling, roman, shower, studio, tesserae, tiles tile floor, tiling, wishes, year

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Happy New Year Y’all ! Bringing you this lovely 4th century Greek mosaic from Halicarnassus, Turkey, with my best wishes of “Health, Life (Longevity), Joy, Peace, Contentment (Good Cheer), Hope”.…

Ukrainian Flag mosaic

14 March 2022

Frédéric LECUT

How to Mosaic, Life around the Studio, Technical Videos

activism, artist, fiberglass, flag, guernica, how to mosaic, mesh, mosaic, picasso, tile nipper, tutorial, ukraine, video, war, wheeled cutter

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How to make your own Ukrainian flag mosaic Like most of you I am extremely saddened and appalled by the war putin is waging agains Ukraine, at the massacre of…

Moving a mosaic studio

26 June 2021

Frédéric LECUT

Life around the Studio

books, ceramic, container, moving, pack, packing, relocation, shipping, smalti, stack, stacking, studio, tiles, tools, travel, travelling, workshop

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After quite some troubles, I have finally managed to get my stuff ready for moving back to Europe How do you move a mosaic studio ? You pack all you…

Unemployed

12 April 2021

Frédéric LECUT

History & Archeology, Life around the Studio

Aegean, Akrotiri, artistic, Bronze age, container, COVID, cylinder seal, fresco, griffin, griphon, Le Havre, mesopotamia, neolithic, opportunity, Ostia, petroglyph, Pompeii, quarantine, rock art, Saint Valery, scandinavian, seaworthy, ship, shipping, shipping container, sumer, sumerian, Thera, travel, travertine, unemployment

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An unemployed mosaicist I have been mosaically unemployed for a year… In January 2020, I flew back to Alabama from France. I had just learned I was going to be…

Mosaic Models

15 February 2021

Frédéric LECUT

Design & Services, Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio, Unclassified, Works in Process

animals, bestiary, design, drawing, France, geometric, library, model, moving, pattern, patterns

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You can’t build mosaics ? Draw mosaic models ! MosaicBlues moves to France After 30 years in Alabama, I decided to move back to France. there are many reasons for…

March at MosaicBlues

29 February 2020

Frédéric LECUT

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, Life around the Studio

March, Mars, minaudiere, Work in Progress, Yabusame

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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…