Roman mosaics design evolved over the centuries when different styles developed in various parts of the empire. Roman mosaicists often composed them by surrounding a small meaningful and figurative scene with grandiose frames combining geometric shapes. Many of these at times very intricate patterns were skilfully built by repetition of…
Hanging rails for heavy mosaics mounting… Hanging rails are an excellent solution to mount mosaics on walls. Mosaics being made of heavy material, Stone, Ceramic, , glasses, they are much heavier than other media. They usually cannot be mounted on a wall as would a painting of photograph. Most of…
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…
Perfect mosaic borders ? Careful observation of Roman mosaics, beyond obvious beauty and awesomeness, sometimes reveals imperfections in their realization. These defects mostly are of two kinds. They result either of poor design or of poor execution despite a good design. In Roman and Byzantine times mosaics were realized by…
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…
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…
In 2017 I created this 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 : In this post I…
The Hispania Baetica Roman province in Spain. The mosaic of the birds was the first one among a plethora of incredible mosaics I stumbled upon during my last expedition to Southern Spain. My main purpose for this trip was to visit the many archaeological sites and museums Andalusia has to…
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…
JULIA Location : National Museum of Archaeology, Pompeii, Italy Date : 1st century AD This incredibly detailed mosaic portrait of a young woman of a patrician family can be admired at the National Museum of Archeology in Naples, Italy. It comes from the cubiculum of a rich Villa in Pompeii…
