My next mosaic is a composite of three photos I took at a farm in Maine on our vacation last month. Blossom is a sweet little ewe that followed me around the pasture and let me pet her and scratch her behind the ears. She shared the pasture with several chickens, who were much less interested in my attentions.
I'm not so sure there will be much help for those chickens.
One and a half four-inch tall chickens = one and a half hours of drawing and erasing. Mostly erasing. One still looks a lot like the damn Kellogg's Corn Flakes rooster. Oh well.
In case you wonder what the squiggly lines above the animals is supposed to be - that is just so I don't get confused later as to which parts are pickets on the fence, and which are the spaces between.
My thought is to make this mosaic entirely of stone except for the ewe’s eye (a spot of iridescent glass to grab you, eh?), but I got hung up on the planning for those damn chickens – there is no readily available “cockscomb red” stone. So I am venturing into the realm of Litovi.
From the Smalti.com website:
Litovi MosaicStone is a new high tech material that brings together the glamour of marble with the rich color range of smalti. It is resistant to all conditions and can be used in both interior and exterior applications. Developed in France by mosaic artists for mosaic artists.This material seems to bring vivid colors to the palette that are otherwise unavailable unless you use glass. I will use some red shades for the cockscombs, and a bit of rich browns to mix in with the brown stone in the fence and tree trunks.
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