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Monarch Butterfly

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This is the original picture.

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So I managed to get the first half of my colors done for my mosaic project. The other half I need to work on greens.
The process for the most part was pretty challenging. Although we had all of that practice with shades, tints, and tones, it was still difficult for me to get the right colors for certain parts of the cake and the jelly on the cake. I’m kind of just going with the flow and trusting the process. Trusting that it will all make sense in the end. Lol!

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my inexplicably messy work space :D

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Going in background first

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This is how it looks at B&W

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This is the second image I used. Originally I was just gonna do this image only but I wanted more to it, so I decided to add the monstera plants to be a part of the mosaic

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This was the start of my project. If you look closely at the finished mosaic you can tell when I started to actually understand how to handle all of these tiny little paper pieces. I made the pieces of cut paper too big and they looked a little off for the strawberry.

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At this point I realized that making the pieces smaller would make the image look better, but cause me to lose my patience really quickly.

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Funny story, I had my nephew pick what color to make the background and he thought blue would look good. That kid is smart because I do think the blue really made the mosaic look really bright and almost refreshing. At this point I was finally getting comfortable with working on this project. Until I noticed the time and I started to panic a little

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Reference photo. Ended up choosing something WAY more difficult🤣. I didn’t get as detailed as the reference because cutting teeny tiny pieces really beat me up. But I tried for this much! 

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Reference photo. Ended up choosing something WAY more difficult🤣. I didn’t get as detailed as the reference because cutting teeny tiny pieces really beat me up. But I tried for this much! 

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I wasn’t able to finish since it started to drive me insane. I’ve definitely learned a lot though! It’ll be useful if I ever attempt one of these later on. 

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I wasn’t able to finish since it started to drive me insane. I’ve definitely learned a lot though! It’ll be useful if I ever attempt one of these later on. 

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making swatches and cutting the squares 

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making swatches and cutting the squares 

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progress p. 2 ( this is when i realized i was cutting the squares too small so it was going to take a long time and the particular picture i chose was too detailed but kept going)

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progress p. 2 ( this is when i realized i was cutting the squares too small so it was going to take a long time and the particular picture i chose was too detailed but kept going)