MuralMosaic painting Barry Tate Gallery of Fine Art - acrylic paintings and watercolor paintings

THE GUARDIAN - Mural Mosaic completed panel painting
The Mural Mosaic Project is a very interesting concept where a number of professional artists participate in one large mosaic painting. Each artist receives a 12" square panel that has been pre-painted in a general hue. Good or bad, each artist then has to create a painting that blends into the original hues. At this point, none of the artists even know what the finished piece will even look like! When all of the panels are returned to the good folks at mural mosaic.com it is reassembled and an amazing mosaic is created!

The panel was fun to do. Each mosaic has a theme and each of the panels echoes the theme as well. For this one the theme was west coast or sea life. I found myself staring at the panel on and off for a few hours, visualizing many different "finished" paintings overlapping the panel. There was a long haired Indian princess viewed from beyond a darkened beam of a long house, a forest fire and charred totem... Finally I settled on an ancient totem overlooking one of our famous west coast sunrises.
Check out previously painted mosaics at their web site: www.muralmosaic.com

horse mural mosaic

ORIGINAL PAINTING:

THE GUARDIAN - Mural Mosaic completed panel painting The Mural Mosaic Project is a very interesting concept where a number of professional artists participate in one large mosaic painting. Each artist receives a 12" square panel that has been pre-painted in a general hue. Good or bad, each artist then has to create a painting that blends into the original hues. At this point, none of the artists even know what the finished piece will even look like! When all of the panels are returned to the good folks at mural mosaic.com it is reassembled and an amazing mosaic is created! The panel was fun to do. Each mosaic has a theme and each of the panels echoes the theme as well. For this one the theme was west coast or sea life. I found myself staring at the panel on and off for a few hours, visualizing many different "finished" paintings overlapping the panel. There was a long haired Indian princess viewed from beyond a darkened beam of a long house, a forest fire and charred totem... Finally I settled on an ancient totem overlooking one of our famous west coast sunrises. Check out previously painted mosaics at their web site: www.muralmosaic.com ORIGINAL PAINTING: 12" x 12" acrylic on 1/4" panel. (part of a larger mosaic) REMARQUÉ PRINT A 12x12 or 24x24 remarque on clean-edge canvas is available.

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