Elizabeth Gallery Santa Barbara Mosaics
Custom mosaic designs and fabrication handmade in Santa Barbara, CA
Go all out on your proposal! If you really want the project, pull out all of the stops to make your proposal the best professional job possible. If you do not know how to do some of the computer stuff, hire someone who can.
The Italian term “andamento” (plural is andamenti) refers to the flow of the mosaic pieces, called “tesserae.” That is, the individual pieces of a mosaic follow the form of the image that is described. The Romans and Greeks invented this way of making images visually coherent in mosaics.
Read MoreView the detail photos from the recent installation at the Outreach Center for the Teaching of Ocean Science building (OCTOS) at UCSB
Read MoreThis Santa Barbara Landscape and Seascape mosaic mural custom commission shows a panorama of local land and sea animals, the historic Stearns Wharf, Bud Bottoms iconic dolphin sculpture and the McKinley Elementary School, where the 6x15 foot long mosaic mural was installed in the cafeteria in 2013.
Read MoreIn 1964 I taught art to West African teens in N Kongsamba, East Cameroun where I was stationed as a Peace Corps Volunteer. I saved two of my student drawings depicting tribal ceremonies and almost 50 years later these drawings have become mosaics.
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