Caribbean mosaic artists websites
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Caribbean Queen Presents Mosaic Artist Omaira Silva
Palm Beach – The Caribbean Queen at the Palm Beach Plaza Mall has been honoring one local female artist who lives and creates here, every month. The Caribbean Queen program was launched since the store opened in late 2011. For the month of January 2013, local mosaic artist Omaira Silva is Caribbean Queen, prominently displaying her beautiful and bold artwork in the store.
Born and raised on the island of Aruba, Omaira spreads happiness by creating art. She is a self-taught artist with a passion for Mosaic, the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, mirror and other materials.
The technique belong to decorative art which is an aspect of interior decoration, Omaira explains, but the craft requires more than just design capabilities, it requires patience, and dexterity, a good technical sense, and most of all an artistic eye for color and shape combinations.
Omaira first discovered the art of Mosaic when she lived in Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands of Spain, where she saw some of the best examples of later Islamic mosaics produced in Moorish Spain made by local craftsman almost 1,000 years ago. That triggered it. She was in love with the process and once back on the island in
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A UK mosaic artist, Dionne was first introduced to mosaics in 2002 after searching for a more creative interest outside of her 9-5 role working as a Legal Secretary. I was so impressed with her work, that I asked her if she would share not only what techniques she used, but also what inspired her to create this series. Here’s what I learned.
Dionne explained that she starts by sketching her outline onto her substrate, if it isn’t too detailed. Otherwise, she, like a lot of us, copies her design onto tracing paper and transfers it to her substrate.
For her goddess series, she used MDF (medium density fiber board) as her backer and then glued her tesserae down using Weldbond glue for her interior art.
The materials she used were mainly stained glass for the headwraps – that way she could capture the great variety of color and texture stained glass brings. She also said it reminded her of tie dye. Unglazed ceramics was used for the skin and she also added some smalti, glitter tiles, cowrie shells, and millefiori.
Dionne made the smart decision to not tile the whole board, as she wanted the viewer to be drawn directly to the goddess and not be distracted by a background. Her background was created by mixing grout and spreading it all around the goddess. She then textured the
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Found Object Photomosaic Art farm Jill Gatwood
Class Description
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Where
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When
This stratum will the makings held Saturday, February 26th from 12pm to 2:30pm.
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This class job appropriate pointless ages 16 and chop (under 18 requires precipitous permission).
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