This is a project I've been working on for some time but many of the leaves on the tree needed some TLC so I decided to work on a repair of an existing aertwork as my project today!
A couple of years ago I went to Ravenna, Italy and did an intensive course in traditional mosaics at Luciana Notturni's Mosaic Art School. The course was held in engliish for a varietyy of international students, and some of us are still in touch now. The ladies teaching on the course were amazing, and they took us to many sites around Ravenna to view both traditional (mostly in churches) and more modern (a mosaic park) styles of mosaic, in the area, as well as a historical lecture, and bags of teaching time!
This is one of the two pieces I made on the course - combining traditional materials and methods (no tile cutters here, all the tesserae (the small tiles used in mosaic( were not cut with modern tile cutters but with a Hammer and Hardie.
Believe me, this is easier to master than you think, and is endless amount of fun! All the repairs to this were done using my left hand, honest!
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