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Saturday, July 1, 2017

Modelos personalizados de mosaico


¿Alguna vez has querido dar un intento en el arte del mosaico, parero te sintiste abrumado por su aparente complejidad? 

Martelina and tagliolo, traditional tools of mosaic artists for 2500 years.
Tradicional herramientas del artista de mosaico.


Creé en 2015 una técnica de mosaico nueva y fácil de implementar. La llamé 
“Opus Pixellatum”.


Opus Pixellatum es una técnica de introducción perfecta para el arte del mosaico. Debido a que al principio esta técnica sólo utiliza tesseras cuadradas de las mismas dimensiones, dispuestos en líneas horizontales y verticales, no se necesitan ninguna corte. Tu simplemente tienes que pegar tus tesseras en un modelo, llenar la brecha entre ellos, y voila, tu mosaico está completo.


Y como funciona esto ?


Envíame una foto de lo que te gustaría representar en mosaico.


Cheetah cub used as model for Opus Pixellatum glass mosaic portrait
Guepardito del desierto de Serengeti.


De tu imagen, creo un modelo que se parece a una hoja de cálculo.


Cheetah cub mosaic portrait  - laminated model on the bench in Alabama studio.
El modelo plastificado en su mesa.

Se compone de muchos pequeños cuadrados numerotados.



COrner of laminated mosaic model showing the numbered squares.
La esquina inferior izquierda del modelo del guepardito.


Cada número corresponde a un color de azulejo específico. También proveo las cantidades que necesitarás de cada azulejo.



Azulejos de mosaico del Guepardito.
Referencia de azulejos 
Número de azulejos

1
100
26
250
27
324
29
100
42
1408
44
860
62
1206
109
286



Las referencias son las de las tesseras de vidrio de 8 mm de Mosaicartsupply en Atlanta, GA.
Tu puedes ordenar los azulejos de MosaicArtSupply o puedo hacerlo para ti.
Si deseas utilizar otras teseras, puedo diseñar un modelo basado  en ellas.

Una vez que tengas tu modelo y azulejos, puedes ir a trabajar.

Coloque su modelo en su mesa de trabajo y empezas a pegar sus tesseras en él. Puedes utilizar cualquier pegamento soluble en agua como el pegamento Elmer.




Cheetah cub mosaic, first day work in progress
Mosaico del guepardito, primer día de trabajo.


En este particular mosaico del Gueparito, estaba trabajando del método inverso, pegando mis tesseras al revés encima de mi modelo plastificado.

Para trabajar en el método directo, to pones un pedazo de malla de fibra de vidrio sobre tu modelo y pegas sus tesseras en esta malla.

Retrato del mosaico realizado durante el seminario del mosaico en Atlanta, Georgia, abril de 2017.
Los ojos de Amy. La mitad de las tesseras en la malla.

Después de un rato, tu mosaico está listo para montar en un cuadro rígido.

Cheetah cub mosaico retrato, todos los azulejos puestos. Listo para ser pegado en su soporte.
Mosaico del guepardito, todas tesseras pegadas.

Si trabajas el método inverso como lo hice este mosaico del guepardito tu pegas el soporte encima de él.


Cheetah cub mosaico completo pegado en soporte de apoyo, listo para voltear.
Mosaico del guepardito con su soporte pegado encima.



Si trabajas método directo, simplemente levanta la malla del modelo laminado y pegala sobre su soporte.


El retrato de mosaico de ojos de Daniel pegado en su soporte de apoyo. Mosaic Seminar Atlanta, Georgia, abril de 2017.
Mosaico de los ojos de Daniel. Todas tesseras pegadas.




Una vez tu mosaico fijada en su soporte - unas pocas horas en el método directo, 48 horas en el método reverso - y tu puedes lechar y terminarlo.


El autor junto a Cheetah cub mosaico en el estudio de arte Mosaic, Headland, Alabama, mayo de 2017
El autor al lado del retrato del guepardito.


El Gueparito (Cheetah Cub) por encima se realizó de colores, mientras que los ojos de Amy abajo se construyeron de una escala de grises.

Una chica linda y su retrato de mosaico, Mosaic Fiesta seminario en Atlanta, Georgia, abril de 2017.
El modelo y su mosaico!

De un mismo modelo, muchas, muchas variaciones son possibles. Puede cambiar la paleta de colores de la escala de Grises a Sepia, escala azul o escala de Grises invertida. También puede optar por realizar partes del mosaico del Opus Tessellatum ordinario - la técnica clássica romana o griega.


Opus Pixellatum es una técnica increíblemente versátil. Empieza como "mosaico por número" y luego te permite una infinidad de variaciones. ¡La gran belleza de esta técnica es que permite a un principiante total realizar una primera pieza muy hermosa!

Estudiantes del Mosaic Fiesta Seminario y sus retratos de mosaico, Atlanta, GA, USA, Abril 2017.
Estudiantes del Seminario "Mosaic Fiesta" de Abril 2017 en Atlanta, GA.


En un próximo artículo compartire con ustedes algunos mosaicos increíbles hechas por algunos de mis estudiantes y clientes.




Si deseas crear tu propio mosaico basado en tu propia imagen o diseño, póngate en contacto conmigo al (334) 798 1639 o frederic.lecut@mosaicblues.com

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En 1992, Alabama se convirtió en mi hogar
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Sunday, June 18, 2017

Completing Carola Quinta - the last cuts.


I am presently completing Carola Quinta, the fifth of my Opus Pixellatum series of Carole's eyes. I only have 3 to 4 % of the tiles left to lay, but they will take about 10 % of the total laying time.
I have used in this piece the 3 Opus Pixellatum and Tesselatum and Sextile techniques. Tessellatum is perfect for the curvy vines growing on top of the background layer. The bottom boulders (I harvested on the parking lot of the riding trail ...) qualify as Sextile.


Opus tesselatum, pixellatum and sectle in the same mosaic piece.
Green boulders at the bottom right corner.

Because of these irregular and spiral shapes, I have to cut some of my small square tesserae to fit the curves. This accounts for the extra time spent in the completing stage of this piece which should be available in August after I come back from visiting some Romans sites in France next month.  






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In 1992 I made Alabama his home.
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The famous Marcel Gottlieb coccinelle


Tuesday, April 18, 2017

How to Mosaic Art : Principles of Opus Pixellatum



This a first post of a series dedicated to my Opus Pixellatum Technique © and the many variations it allows. 

join us in our investigation and experimentation of a new mosaic art technique
Investigating Mosaic Art's Opus Pixellatum


This first post describes the original, basic Opus Pixellatum technique as I designed it, and how I came to realize its dramatic potential. I will systematically address the wealth of phenomenal variations allowed by this technique, one at a time, in my next posts on the subject. 

I originally developed Opus Pixellatum in 2015 to be able to quickly realize a set of big mosaics. Cutting the tiles is a very time consuming activity. I had found with Mosaic Art Supply a reliable source of great quality square glass tiles and I wanted to figure out a way to work exclusively with their tiles, without having to cut them.


It took lots of thinking and experiments. I finally came up with a powerful technique that cut by half the time needed to lay a mosaic. 


Basically Opus Pixellatum is a way to do mosaics using a model that pixellizes an original drawing or picture, just like a digital image is pixellized as a great number of cells aligned on horizontal rows and vertical columns. My goal here is not to explain the process that creates a pixellized model from an original graphic document, but to explain how one builds a mosaic from this model. 

From a picture like this one : 


Original eyes picture used to design mosaic self-portrait model
I designed a model after this original picture of Daniel's eyes

I design a model like this : 


Mosaic Art Self Portrait Model of Eyes Opus Pixellatum
Blank model of Daniel's Eyes

The principle is easy : Each number printed on the model corresponds to a color of a grayscale palette. 


Glass mosaic tiles Seven gray shade palette
7 colors - Grayscale.



If one would lay the tiles in the order of the numbers we would have the following progression : 

Black glass tiles laid on mosaic art model.
Black Tiles are laid


Dark Gray glass tiles laid on mosaic art model
Dark Grays are laid, can you guess ?


three colors laid eyes self-portrait mosaic art image appearing
2 nuances of Gray, now you surely see it...


four colors glass moaic tiles make distinct image
4 colors : Black and 3 Grays, there we are.


five colors glass mosaic tiles laid eyes selfportrait detailed image
5 colors laid.


complete mosaic art eyes self-portrait black white seven shades gray
A perfect 7 colors image.



Practically, you lay all colors at the same time and in order to keep a small grouting gap between the tiles  it is better to first mount every other tiles. 


Laying every other tiles allows more precise positionning


When I first started to use Opus Pixellatum, I was pleased of how fast it was to build a really good looking mosaic. One day I decided to wait until I had fully completed laying half the tiles before I’d start laying the next other ones. And here is what I saw...


Mosaic portrait of a young Yezidi refugee is part of a series to raise funds
Half the tiles are laid on this portrait of a Yezidi refugee.


On this portrait of a young Yezidi refugee only half the tiles had been laid.... Our brains can intuit what the whole picture is... That is flabbergasting  ! 


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I did not know yet where I was going with that, but I sure intended to seriously investigate this unexpected occurrence !


Here are what Daniel's eyes would look like with half the tiles laid : 

I'll design a custom mosaic pattern of your eyes in Opus Pixellatum
Only half the tiles have been laid on this mosaic portrait



Key to the unlocking of Opus Pixellatum's potential is not so much the fact that it works with half the tiles laid, but that it does with half the tiles NOT laid, and that their spots can be used for something else !

The next posts of this Opus Pixellatum series will explore this. I will systematically explore the subject and will expose each variation in a dedicated post.  

In the meantime, enjoy Daniel's and his mosaic's smiles !


i will design a custom mosaic portrait of your loved one for you to build it.
A very happy Daniel shows off his mosaic self portrait.


I am a French mosaic artist  established in Alabama. In 2015 I created a new mosaic technique. I named  it Opus Pixellatum. When I realized this technique allowed for much more than I was expecting I decided to share it with fellow mosaicists.
 
If you'd like me to create a model of a custom mosaic pattern from one of your picture for you to build it, please contact me by email at frederic.lecut@mosaicblues.com 
or by phone at (334) 798 1639 
 
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