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This project really started when we visited Barelona in 2016.\u00a0 Mosaics by artist\/architect Antonio Gaudi are everywhere, and we got inspired.<\/p>\n

\"\"This photo is a tiny detail of a 100-meter-long curbed concrete bench at the\u00a0Parc G\u00fcell, but there is mosaic everywhere<\/em>\u00a0in Barcelona.<\/p>\n

At the beach, we are cursed with thousands of pieces of abandoned broken ceramic tile, either dumped or washed up on the sand.\u00a0 Surely a tiny portion of this could be used to create something special?<\/p>\n

We started gathering this “beach tile” on our own, and then found someone who had been collecting it for YEARS.\u00a0 Buckets of the stuff was suddenly available, and the project was born.<\/p>\n

\"\"The long thin shape of the cinder-block wall suggested a horizontal swimming mermaid, and we had a LOT of pastel blue and green tile to work with!\u00a0 So I went searching the Web for possibly useful images. (There are thousands of mermaid photos and drawings on the Web, so this was NOT hard.)<\/p>\n

The design went thru lots of iterations, mostly to make it work with the available colors of tile.\u00a0 Here is one example, giving her a yellow tail and having her approach a wall of coral.<\/p>\n

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\"\"I started work in May 2017, and that approach gave this result.\u00a0 But the tail was just too flat, and the coral was impossible to make detailed enough to look good.\u00a0 (Remembering that I’ve never done a mosaic before, and we’re trying to make the design match the tile, not the other way around.)<\/p>\n

I decided that I really needed to have more control over the tail, which is going to be the most prominent thing in the whole piece.\u00a0 So I bit the bullet and bought several panels of small glass pool tiles in different shades of blue.\u00a0 That looks a LOT better!<\/p>\n

\"\"And this is about how she stayed for the entire rest of 2017, as house project, travel and much more came first.\u00a0 La Sirena lay out on the three tables in the backyard covered in black plastic until the new year.<\/p>\n

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This project really started when we visited Barelona in 2016.\u00a0 Mosaics by artist\/architect Antonio Gaudi are everywhere, and we got inspired. This photo is a tiny detail of a 100-meter-long curbed concrete bench at the\u00a0Parc G\u00fcell, but there is mosaic everywhere\u00a0in Barcelona. At the beach, we are cursed with thousands of pieces of abandoned broken … Continue reading “Early Work on La Sirena”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-sirena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}