Tag Archive 'smalti'

Oct 30 2008

The Results of Smalti 101

Published by Jennifer under Art, Featured

Well - I may not have produced the world’s greatest modern mosaics, but I did end up with three little pieces of color and awkwardness that I like enough to display in my decor. Plus going to art class was really a nice segway from the office.
So here’s what I made - three tree-themed smalti [...]

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Sep 17 2008

The Beginnings of a Mosaic

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I decided to figure out what mosaic I was going to do once I got to my 2nd class and saw the colored tiles that I had ordered up close and personal, and once I saw them I know what I wanted to do.  (It was a little disconcerting to see that most everyone else [...]

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Sep 13 2008

SMALTI

Published by Jennifer under Art, Featured

My sister sent me a pic of some of the smalti tiles we chose from in our last class - as you can see, it’s much brighter and more colorful than the smalti used in Byzantine art:
I chose lots of blues and greens - at the moment I thought something oceanic sounded cool… but then [...]

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Sep 09 2008

Smalti Italian Mosaics!

Published by Jennifer under Art, Featured

My sister had the fun idea for us to take an Italian mosaics class together and we just got out of the first class - I’m so excited!  We’re using smalti for our mosaics in this class and I just love it!  The tile is formed by mixing molten glass with metal oxides and it [...]

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