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Found this lemon on a walk and thought it would be perfect for a mosaic.

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Finished swatches before getting rid of the imperfect ones.

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Grayscale version to see the large outliers.

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First set up with outline drawn and getting ready for the leaves.

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Finished mosaic! Unfortunately the photos I took of the progress seem to have vanished... So I can't show the midway point that was accomplished. Just know that when I finished the blue background I was covered in glue, my back was hurting, and after 5 hours of work I wanted to give up. But I took another day and let the motivation come back and finished it up!

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Here is my starting of my mosaic square tiles.

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I started with an unsplash image, that I imported into photoshop.

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Here my side ways Black and White Color Scheme.

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Here my side ways Black and White Color Scheme.

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The jelly fish almost looks like a glowing night time swimmer.

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I really enjoyed this project even though it took about three hours to complete.

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This was a very slow process but once I got going, I did not stop.

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You can even apply a filter that gives it a  mosaic tile look. Useful, but too small for this (I can't find the tweezers!) I printed the color and the grayscale

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Photoshop layering and color correction overpainting.

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Photoshop layering and color correction overpainting.

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As you can see the printer made a darker shade but I think everybody gets the drift.
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I cut the image out and pasted it on Canson media paper.
Glue sticks!

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Hi ho hi ho, it's off to work we go! Tata dah te tah tata dah te tah...

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Hi ho hi ho, it's off to work we go! Tata dah te tah tata dah te tah...

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Yes I'm cheap....I do not like unneeded waste.

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I painted blocks of color in different tints, shades and tones.

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I painted blocks of color in different tints, shades and tones.

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Yes I know the one paper is all mixed. That's the leftover paint on the pallet that I didn't want to throw away so I painted a paper for cut up and for future projects.

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Cut up the values in different piles. Much like a paint pallet.

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Cut up the values in different piles. Much like a paint pallet.

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A start. At first daunting, not knowing what is ahead.

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A start. At first daunting, not knowing what is ahead.

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I like how the darker blue value in the palm looks like a bullet hole. An accident that I kept, it could also be a fold in the palm. This image is too close up, but when you look at it from a back a few steps it looks better.

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It's an axolotl

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These are the colors I’m using for my art project. Took me awhile to paint all of them. I even had to paint more.

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This is how my colors look like in black and white. Nothing to big but the white looks to bright for some reason or is it just me .

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Before I started, I drew my piece first. It’s not the best drawing but I did try my best to do it. And I honestly like how it came out.

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I honestly like how it came out, I went for just a all blue background. I thought the blue pop out more because my cat is white mix with a brown and gray/ black color. This was my first time doing it and I had a blast doing.

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I don’t have the original must’ve tossed it during a room clean up. But, here’s my mosaic

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Black and white copy of bird image

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Checking grey scale of colors to be used

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Creating swatches for color variation and shadows of branch. 

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Checking grey scale of branch colors to determine which ones to use and where

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Final mosaic piece

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Monarch Butterfly

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I decided to make my mosaic as a gift to two of my friends for welcoming me with open arms when I moved here from out of state. This is their adopted dog Ludo. This took a long time to do - I realize now just how small I made the pieces.

I learned how to understand abstraction a bit better. To be honest, while I was doing this piece, I did not think I was doing the original image justice and thought I was muddying the details too much. Even when I finished, it seemed like it wasn't good. It was only a few days later that I looked at it both from emotional and physical distance to see it more for what it is rather than my zoomed-in perspective.

I am most pleased with the colors. The dog is a black dog in real life, but I wanted to avoid using black in the piece. Instead, I went with the blues and browns of the reflected light. I think what I wanted to do was achieved well. I also like the abstraction of the eyes.

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I wound up taking a few colors off and replacing them at the end!

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This was probably the hardest part of it all since the pieces were small and precise.

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Putting the flower together was easier than expected. The pieces were bigger and easier to arrange. I got to use different shades of pink which I really liked.

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I didn’t end up using some of the swatches. 

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This is the temple in El Salvador that is in tazumal the temple of itza

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This is my people past the time we had in the past my ancestor and our culture

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This is my people past the time we had in the past my ancestor and our culture

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Is the same example but in grayscale.

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Grayscale of my work so you know where my intesicity of bright and darkness is at.

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My work when is ready to get it together into a mosiac

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My work when is ready to get it together into a mosiac

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I found out a faster way to cut these into little pieces.

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My beautiful first mosiac took very long time I felt I could of done better on brightness color

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this was harder than i expected. i probably should’ve chose an easier subject

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I chose the lemon because for me it is amazing that these things just grow in people's yards and then get tossed in the street as yard waste! I love going on walks and seeing all of the citrus trees happily soaking up the sun.
I learned that you have to clean your hands every five minutes or less to not get into a sticky situation. Next time I would change the type of glue I used. Maybe a very thin glue I can use with a brush instead of a glue stick.
The leaves are my favorite part of the project. I was happy that all of the shades turned out so nice and it created a lot of dimension.

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1. Why did you choose that particular image?
I choose this image because of my love of axolotls. I think there really cool and nice to look at. This image in particular had a lot of colors to pick from and had a nice dark background to contrast it. There were other axolotls to choose from but I like this color the best.
2. What did you learn and what might you change if you were to redo this project?
Doing this project let me notice color more closely and find even the smallest details. It also reminded me how hard doing a mosaic is. If I were to redo this project I would change and some colors in certain areas to make it look better.
3. Which parts are the most pleasing or successful?
The most successful parts were the small areas that had big color changes, like the gill parts of the axolotl or it's fingers. The most pleasing parts to do for me would be the background and the face area as I feel like they looked the best.

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1) I selected the image of a bird, as observing birds was something I learned to appreciate during the long hours and days of Shelter in Place. As a single person, they were good company.

2) what I learned and what I’d change: I learned a lot about shading and shadows. Looking at the colors against a gray scale and determining how to best represent them was very instructional. I also learned the value of stepping back and viewing the piece from a distance. I do this with my sculpture work, but I didn’t realize how important it was when working with such small pieces. I’d change the gradation of the background to include a greater range of light to dark. It was too monochromatic.

3) I like the emotion in the piece that was achieved through using very small pieces in the face and eyes. This allowed for more subtlety. The detail helped give the face more depth.

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1) I chose this particular image because the colors really stood out to me, plus I love light colors so I thought it would be pretty.
2) I learned doing the mosaic was a lot more time consuming than I thought. I also focused too much on the color palette at first and that kind of slowed me down.
3) The most pleasing parts was the top portion of the background it’s super light and the pieces were small which made it look nicer. As well as the shadow part of the bird.

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Why did you choose that particular image? The reason I choose my cat was because he’s my baby lol. We have a strong bond, he literally follows me everywhere and he even sleeps with me. Just look at him, you can’t get mad at that.

What did you learn and what might you change if you were to redo this project? I got to learn to mix and create different colors to match my cat. And I will honestly would fix on how I put the pieces of paper on top of my cat’s head, it looks like he is mad. And I will probably add little bit of brown paper to face.

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successfull? I really like how the way the  body came out , and the background looks great. Has a great time doing this project.