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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…

Roman mosaics at the Museum of Langres

16 August 2023

Design & Services, History & Archeology, Resources, Trips & Visits

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A travel and design guide to mosaics. For the past 5 years, I have been visiting Roman mosaics in France and other countries. I reproduced many of their designs and…

Black swimmer mosaic

25 November 2022

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

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The black swimmer mosaic (mosaique au nageur noir) was discovered in August 1991, at the intersection of rue Général-Perrier with rue Auguste in Nimes, France. Black swimmer mosaic, Musée archéologique…

Carlos Maratta - The Rape of Europa CA 1680

Mosaic model : How I built the Lullingstone Europa Mosaic – Part I.

27 October 2022

Frederic Lecut's Mosaics, How to Mosaic

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Making the mosaic model of the Lullingstone mosaic In this article, I am going through the various stages of designing the actual mosaic model for a reverse method mosaic. I…

Squares and Octagons on a Daphne mosaic.

16 May 2022

Design & Services, History & Archeology, Resources, Unclassified

3D, Antakya, Antioch, catalog, cube, daphne, design, geometry, GIMP, Inkscape, library, lingua franca, model, modular, mosaique, Octagon, octagone, pattern, solomon knot, template, templates, trompe l'oeil, Turkey

I am reverting this week to publishing the geometric mosaic models I have been drawing for the past year ! A geometric mosaic medallion from Daphne The mosaic model of…

Week 14 Mosaic Model : Lugdunum 05

4 April 2022

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The 5th medallion of the great Lugdunum mosaic The mosaic model of this week 14 (April 2 to April 8) is my drawing of the 5th medallion of the great…

Week 13 Mosaic model : Libyan Oryx

30 March 2022

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From the Eastern Church of Theodorias The mosaic model of this week 13 (March 28 to April 3) is a drawing of a pet Oryx antelope mosaic. The original mosaic…

Ukrainian Flag mosaic

14 March 2022

How to Mosaic, Life around the Studio, Technical Videos

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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…

Week 10 mosaic model : an Antelope mosaic from Cyrenaica

7 March 2022

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From the Eastern Church of Theodorias The mosaic model of this week 10 (March 7 to March 13) is a drawing of an pet antelope mosaic. The original mosaic was…

Week 9 Mosaic Model : Lugdunum 03

1 March 2022

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