Mariam's Eyes Twin Mosaics

A short introductory Video of Mariam's Eyes twin Mosaics.

Mariam's Eyes are made after one previous work of mine : Green Eyes, who flew to Dubai last winter.

Green eyes was the first one of my Mosaic Eyes portraits.  2 years later Mariam's Eyes are bigger, and differently centered. I am also using different materials. 

I am actually making 2 mosaics on the same design. One is the mirror image of the other. Twin sisters ! 

One of these mosaics is a commission for a dear French friend of mine.

Mariam's Eyes will be flying to France in June, and her sister will be available for purchase in July 2014. 

If you think you might be interested, please contact me by phone at (334) 798 1639, or by email at frederic.lecut@gmail.com.

I will be posting more pictures of Mariam's Eyes on my Mosaicblues Facebook page, this blog and my regular mosaicblues blog.

First tesserae laid...

This week end I laid the first tesserae on both Mariam, and her sister's eyes.

The inside edge is of gold travertine, the outside one of a beautiful green slate I found last week at the local Habitat for Humanity store !

Originally I had planned the outer edge of black granite, but I changed my mind, I believe the green slate and gold travertine together will be gorgeous.

Although it barely can be seen here, I have been using long strips of stones on the regular Mariam's Eyes. However, because of what I am trying to do with Mariam's Sister Eyes, I only can use small tesserae.

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Mariam's Eyes - the Models

There are 3 or 4 levels of modelling for all my mosaics. One original digital image, (If the original is paper, I digitize it);  one paper original, at scale with the final mosaic, and one final model at the same size as the final mosaic.

So here are the models :  

The original reprint from scan of a French magazine. 

The Black and White model printed on heavy paper, and enhanced by hand. I used a graphic software and hand drawing to work on this picture to get to a Black and White image.

The laminated real size models. Enlarged and laminated prints at the size of the final mosaic. In this particular case, I had 2 of them made - mirror image of each other, as I will build 2 mosaics at the same time. The regular one for France, the other one as an experimentation of a different tesserae laying technique.