One of the reasons I love photo mosaics, and any type of mosaic for that matter, is that the possibilities are endless! Today on the blog, I am sharing a captivating installation by renowned artist, Noah Scalin.

Recently I came across an artist, Sergej Stoppel, that opened a design studio centered around drawing algorithms and robotics. With the help of his pen plotter named Karel, Sergej converts portraits into different forms of dot and line art. While experimenting with his style he created line art portrait mosaics.

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I’m excited to share the new adventure I’ve decided to take on for 2017. I signed up at my local high school to give a presentation to the art students, on photography techniques & best practices – tips on how to improve their photo skills.

In my recent internet adventures, I stumbled upon a truly hidden gem in Los Angeles, California – The Mosaic Tile House. A house with nearly every square inch covered in mosaic tile!

Outer space seems so unknowable and unreachable to most people. Thankfully, modern technology has given us a glimpse of our planetary neighbors and far away star systems. While reading some updates in the world of photo mosaics, I found a recent project from NASA called the Wave At Cassini Event. In mid-2013, the Cassini spacecraft took a short break from it’s job of hovering around Saturn to snap a photo of its home, planet Earth.

What’s Black, white, and read everyday? Barcodes of course. Few artists have experimented with these simple graphic icons. But wouldn’t you have guessed it, I found an artist who turns them into mosaics! Florida based artist Scott Blake has devoted his creative passion to barcodes. From web work to paintings, Blake has dabbled in almost every field of artistic expression. Due to my love for photo mosaics, I want to focus on his digital mosaic portraits. I appreciate that these mosaics have an actual pattern to them and are not simply laid on a vertical and horizontal grid. 

I’m always on the hunt for fresh mosaic ideas, big or small. Big mosaic projects can be challenging, but very rewarding in the end. Created by artist Gerhard Marx in cooperation with Spier Architectural Arts, this larger-than-life mosaic of an aerial photograph of Johannesburg, South Africa spans 56 panels and weighs nearly three tons! Spanning five months of work by seven mosaic artists and nine apprentices to complete, it was unveiled at the 2013 FNB Joburg Art Fair in Johannesburg.

When I was very young, the first piece of art I was introduced to was Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I was truly moved by it. The sweeping, textured winds, and the enormous stars were things that I, as a child, could easily relate to. So, when I found a photo mosaic of Starry Night with actual Hubble telescope photos as the cells, I was again re-absorbed into the piece.

While on another late night web hunt for unique mosaics, I found a project that really caught my eye. Chicago artist Mary Ellen Croteau has collected enough plastic bottle caps to arrange them into an 8’x7′ mosaic self portrait. Except where the whiteboard was showing through, no paint was used during the mosaic process, nor was the source image superimposed on the backing board – we’re looking at a true mosaic here!

*UPDATED 9/3/2013*

I was catching up with a friend from Montreal recently who told me about an interesting festival that was approaching. Apparently, throughout the weekend of August 16th-18th, Canadian Living Magazine is inviting Canadians nationwide to submit their photos to an online, streaming photo mosaic for their 2013 PhotoFest! Right away, I went to the website to explore as much as I could, and to my surprise I found out that this streaming mosaic concept was provided by Picture Mosaics, whom I’ve written about in the past.