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…
Happy New Year from the Via Baetica Touring the Roman Via Baetica in Southern Spain, I am in awe at the richness of the mosaics of this area. I had seen pictures of many of them in the very well documented “guide to the mosaics along the Roman Baetica Route”,…
The Beauty of imperfection Mosaics perfectly demonstrate the beauty of imperfection and precisely illustrate the French aphorism quoted by Voltaire : “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien” : Perfect is the ennemy of Good. I was walking last evening in the street of Saint Valery sur Somme. This place has…
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 ! A picture cannot…
