opening up mosaics

[The Legend; Phil Hobson RIP]

This reminds me of leatherface and his missus...


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:lol::lol::lol: now I know why he knew so much about Canal street. No offence intended

 

[The D]

Wow wow turn it off !!!!!!!!!!

:lol::lol::yikes::lol::lol:

 

[The D]

any pics of your Designs yet Ed ??

 

[Aston]

not yet mate, very much still in the experimental period :lol:
i am just practicing at the moment getting used to forming circles and bending mosaics around irregular areas.
designs by eduardo will be hitting the shops around 2015 ;0)

 

[charlie1]

Would love to offer advice ed but mosaics are really not my thing... Maybe one day!! I remember when chatting to you though,you where very curious about how the mosaic curves where formed and you chatted to dpm about it! I have seen some outstanding mosaic work but its a very specialised area that i don't really appreciate i suppose. Suppose its the area of tiling that's like art eh! If i wanted to move in to a more specialised area of tiling it would be geometric work.

good luck ed you mad artist!!

 

[charlie1]

One thing i will add though, being a top plasterer,you have the expertise to provide yourself with an ideal platform for creative mosaic work!

 

[MTiler]

with a small radius the tesserae look better 'keystoned'. You just have to decide at what point you start the 'keystoning', as long as it doesnt stand out like a sore thumb no one will notice it. To me the large v shaped gaps look awful and lazy work, but thats only my opinion.

cheers
MissyT

 

[Musivarius]

I agree with Missy T, with ancient mosaics it was one of the 'Rules' that you would use a keystone cut on a curve once the gap opened up too far. Using a triangle cut was a definate no-no as it would break the flow of the line. The exception was with very tight curves, i.e. going around one tesserae, in which case you'd use triangles.

Saying that it's a whole lot more difficult with the very regular square cut tesserae you have to work with. It's very unforgiving and I admire anyone who can work with them.