The Prompts series of PDFs provides ideas and inspiration for your next mosaic project. Each PDF covers a particular project or theme that you can use as a starting point for creating your own mosaic. There are practical hints and tips for making mosaics, as well as examples of mosaics that have been made by students in response to the prompt.
This bundle includes three PDFs for the price of two.
Spirals
This prompt draws inspiration from a fibre arts technique: creating coiled baskets from recycled textiles.
You will explore how to pick out key elements from this craft and translate them into ideas for making mosaic art.
Concepts covered include
- How to create a spiral shape
- Using interstices as a design feature
- Using scrap/leftover materials to create your mosaic.
Long and Thin Mosaics
This prompt takes inspiration from yarn wrapping, a technique that weavers use to experiment with designs and colour combinations. You will explore how to take elements from this technique and apply them to making mosaics.
Concepts covered include
- Developing a colour palette
- Creating a mosaic using a series of lines
- Using materials creatively.
- Building a series.
Interwoven
This prompt focuses on how to create lines that appear to weave over and under each other. You’ll start by learning how create the effect of one line going over another, and then gradually increase the complexity of your design.
Concepts covered include
- The andamento of interwoven lines
- Design options for applying this technique
- Working on multiple lines at the same time
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