In order to recreate my mosaic I will start by taking a piece of white paper and sketching the mosaic. After the sketch is complete I will draw lines in the lines where I want the small paper pieces to be. My mosaic will be composed of more jagged and various-shaped paper pieces as opposed to the original mosaics’ small squares. However, I want to still accurately portray the image so I will try to avoid using very vibrant colors as it would be very difficult to do so with the original material. I will be using mostly natural, dull colors surrounded by a dark background to make it seem more colorful toward the middle which is where the parrot will be.

I will be using construction paper as I think it will be a fairly easy option and make portraying the original image more accurate. I also feel it is the optimal way to make more jagged pieces as I can cut and recut them however I would like. The whole reason I am using these differently shaped pieces is to maintain the original mosaic’s meaning to the best of my ability but also attempt to mix it up.

The only real challenge I am anticipating is how I am going to cut the paper according to how I drew them. I am thinking of overcoming this challenge by drawing the way I want to cut it on the paper I’m cutting. The only problem with this is that it would make it more difficult to use a variety of colors as I would have to redraw the outlines on every color paper I want to use. So my new plan is to draw the parrot, then outline it on my pieces of paper then fill the middle area with randomly cut pieces. I will be doing all of this at my desk and putting the pieces of paper in the mosaic on a larger piece of white paper.

I think I will focus mostly on the color and shapes of the mosaic. The color is very important as I previously mentioned as the outer picture must be quite dull creating almost a frame for the centerpiece. This will hopefully make the parrot pop and draw the viewer’s attention there. As for the shape, I am deviating a lot from the original so I am really going to have to figure out a way to represent the original picture with this completely different style. Hopefully, by looking at my mosaic the audience will be able to recognize the Parrot Pergamon’s original meaning whilst also recognizing that using differently shaped tiles can provide a refreshing viewpoint. This is my goal as through using these different tiles I am trying to prove a piece of art style can be manipulated without the meaning being damaged.

An artist that I am taking inspiration from is a smaller artist named Volodymyr Yagodka. Although Volodymyr is not making mosaics out of paper in his mosaic titled Woman in Red, he uses some similar elements to mine. These being a dull background used to make the centerpiece stand out along with the use of more jagged and randomly shaped pieces.

link to the video: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/mosaics-tutorial-monstera-mirror-video–509821620317926028/

(Video is not using paper but the use of random shapes and piecing together as she goes is what I will be doing along with her having a premade outline to arrange them in. Also, I will similarly not be gluing it down while constructing it.)