Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Zareen is helping Djamila

Its all about team work now as members that have either finished or are waiting for grout to dry out help others finish their pieces.

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Here is Natividade Abreu's piece, photo taken as she nears completion.

Mosaic demonstration - grouting

Week 4 - Mara is demonstrating the process of grouting the Mosaic pieces - this is the final part of the process but it does get messy!

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Mosaic Workshop - week 3

It's week 3 of the project at Westborough School. Here you can see some of the wonderful designs emerging.

In the middle Zareen Mirza is working on her piece 'Mosque' she says 'I like how Mosaics are done, I saw some in the Library at the school and asked how they were done, that's when Alison told me about the workshops Community Mosaics East were running with the Transformation Fund. Now I've seen how its done, I'd like to do more of it. I've learnt how to cut it, although I had done some before at home.'

Nagmo Akter Tree Mosaic

Nagmo Akter - Tree Mosaic

'I liked this learning about colours matching, how to lay it and the space around it. And today we learnt cutting. '

Beautiful piece Nagmo

Tahira Bakeshi - Pepper Mosaic


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This wonderful pepper has been made by Tahira Bakshi.
' These Tuesday classes are good, its so relaxing - rather than doing the shopping! I've learnt about colours, gaps and how their positions can make it look good'

Week 3 - The Mosaics come to Life

What a great week. Some of the group have completed the stage of sticking down their tesserrae.

Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Day One

Day one, week 1.

First session - meeting students, introducing project aspirations and getting to know the school's existing mosaics.

We discussed ideas about contrast and patterns.
We discussed the word for pattern in the different languages from members of the group.
Motif
Nasha (sp)
Design
Teera (sp).

Here are some ideas of what some of the students would like to make. please see photos. We have also had a good look and feel of some of the tiles/tesserrae and found objects that can be used.

There is a lovely energy among the group and we feel some wonderful mosaics are going to be created.

More next week

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Tree

Friday, 9 October 2009

Piece together

Starting point - experiment to see how it looks to others.