After drawing up my dragons (Norsk drager in a previous post) I have been working away on these mosaics for a few months. Just an hour or two on the odd occasion I get home at a reasonable time from work (so much better than watching TV).
I learned a lot from my first mosaic with the red background. The second mosaic blue and green background seemed so much better. I started to learn about cutting and sizing pieces and colour placement (always my area of weakness).
The dark grout then changed the images completely (as I suspected it would). And then framing in white changed them again.
I am quite pleased with the end result :o)
I wonder what next…
Finding Something from Nothing 
Beautiful!
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These are just lovely. I have done some mosaics over the years and so I marvel at your command of the colors and also placing the grout lines. I remember myself how much the mosaic changed with grouting and I have to say, I always felt like it was a present I’d just opened, a piece of magic! Thank you for showing these, they are wonderful.
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Thank you 🙂
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Yes it’s quite a surprise after grouting, I know the images will change but I’m not experienced enough to predict exactly what it will look like. Thank you so much for the kind comments.
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You’re welcome. And I’ll say, as an intermediate mosaicist, more or less, that for me, I never can predict the end results, though I did get better at getting in the neighborhood of what would compliment the mosaic. I liked it that way. For some reason I felt the mosaic came to life (whatever it wanted) with the grouting, and people I taught mosaics to seemed to feel that way too. I love your work, I think you have an obvious feel for it.
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Well it’s only my second attempt at a mosaic piece so I have a long way to go before I get to grips with the medium. The colour of the grout confuses me a little – some colours would detract from the mosaic. Or would they enhance it? Not sure.
So many other mediums to play with but I may return to mosaic one day (I think you’ve inspired me to have another go)
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I hope so. I really do think you have a feel for it.
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very beautiful!
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amazing powerful art pieces
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Thank you! Before I started this blog I always made things for myself and never imagined anyone would be interested in seeing the. I still make things for myself but it is comments like yours which make me show them to a wider audience.
I think I need to find a way to translate these posts into other languages.
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