In addition to hammering out things on the back-end of Totem Outpost — getting all of this technology to like each other — I’m planning some exciting mosaic projects for this year. Cutting things up and reassembling the pieces into brand new craft-scapes has always appealed to me. I have a few different designs that I’ll be concentrating on in the next few months. Realizing this design will be my first mosaic endeavor of 2008:
I created this design (using Photoshop) specifically because I’m of the philosophy that simple is better, or at least I feel like by effectively developing the base idea, the rest only needs a little, if any, accessorizing. You don’t want to throw so much ooh at a project that by the time it’s done it’s plain chaos. This is the primary reason why I’m not into modern scrap-booking. In a lot of the pages that I’ve seen, superfluous doodads complete scuttle the photograph’s emotion.
Anyway, I know the above mosaic doesn’t feel very “outpost-y” except perhaps to fashion a back-story of a trinket that might be hanging in the dressing tent of a satin and frills vaudeville performer touring the Old West. I’m choosing to make this for the very specific purpose of using the techniques to apply to a very outpost-y project to follow with a similar block color matching. Stay tuned for the results!
