{"id":3170,"date":"2013-11-10T22:45:54","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T22:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2013-11-10T22:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T22:45:54","slug":"mosaic-of-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaic-of-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic of Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago, I was invited by one of the worlds oldest travel agencies, Cox and Kings<\/a>, to be part of a group of blogging artists who design a mosaic based on the theme of Morocco. There are five of us and we were all sent a range pictures for inspiration. I chose this one:<\/p>\n

\"P.RAK.Souk,<\/p>\n

The colours are delicious and my eye went right to the pink, red and turquoise scarves on the right (two of my favourite colours). After mulling over this image of a Morocco market, I decided to go 3d and make a mosaic sculpture – and so my Morocco Mosaic scarf was born!\u00a0\"Morocco<\/p>\n

The base of the scarf is hand sculpted from mesh and cement, undulated into 3d form using techniques taught by the lovely Marian Shapiro<\/a> at the workshop we ran at my studio in the summer. I painted the base silver to bounce the light back.<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

I then took some time to play with the tiles, glass and colours…for me this is always one of the most important parts of the whole process.<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

\"MoroccoI discovered that by using some large pieces of clear stained glass, the weave pattern from the mesh came through – perfect!<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

The rest of the mosaic is made of small pieces (some very small, fiddly and time consuming!) which I wove through like glass warp and weft – some tiles are on their side, some are back to front and some I cut into half their original depth to create a textured surface.<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

The glitter tiles in pink and turquoise create a feeling of shiny metallic threads and the piece is finished off by the lovely ‘real’ tassels on the bottom of the scarf.<\/p>\n

\"Morocco<\/p>\n

I love how its come out – the opulence of the colours – so Morocco – and the irony of making a sculpture of something as soft as a scarf out of glass. Thanks to Cox and Kings for the challenge!<\/p>\n

The next bit is the voting – we each rank the other artists pieces – and the winner wins a weekend in Marrakesh! Oh boy! Check out the other artists here Vandy Massey<\/a>, Jenny Keal<\/a>, Kim Dellow<\/a> and Alan Reed.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Good luck folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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