I have been working on this mosaic very hard lately. I have got 32 sections to complete and have done about 10.
My mind has usually imploded by now on these large mosaics, but this one is different.
Because:
It's composition is such that it moves from one scene to another. I get bored but there are always new things just ahead. This has worked really well. I am currently doing a spinning wheel and the next bit is the loom, then after that it is the weavers guild building which is just shy of half way. This 'next thing' anticipation has been a god send.
The worst thing I can remember was the leaf boarder on the Ridgeway Map Mosaic, it looked fab, but after about half a dozen leaves I was pulling my hair out, there was probably over sixty in total.
The Indian will be the very last thing I make, I have done the shephard and he came out fine, the sheep were much better than I expected. Tommorow, 3 spokes on the spinning wheel and the spaces behind, the shadow of the building, and some sky. Lesser people would have lost the will to live by now.
Do you remember that film I think with Charlton Heston as Michaelangelo called 'The Agony and the Ecstasy', well that is about right.
