10/30/22 – The mosaic…

-Jack Geibler

The building of the mosaic begins on the day before Halloween, October 30th. I am returning home from a party the night before, tired as ever. I get home and take an intense 22-minute power nap. Once that was finished, it was go time! I go out to pet smart and buy colored rocks for my mosaic. Then I return home and get to work. A primary focus for my piece was to make it look as it did back when it was created. I showed this by using more vibrant colors that have faded over time. I begin the project by gluing a large piece of paper onto a piece of cardboard to get my background. Then, I sketch out the shape of my mosaic with a pencil. This part was not extremely challenging. The sketch looked very accurate and I had high hopes going into the next step. For the next step, I started placing the rocks onto the background. This part was not so easy. I planned to use a hot glue gun to glue the rocks onto the paper. That did not go very well. The hot glue hardened before I was able to put the rocks on top of it. I managed to get the stones down after using both hands to glue and place them. This was very frustrating because it made the detail look much vaguer. I persevered through and got all of the rocks down into their spots to create the drawing. I was somewhat pleased with my work. I did not get much definition so it is harder to make out the specific details of the mosaic. Also, the rocks came in different shapes and sizes which were difficult to piece them together. I was right when I predicted that the glue would be my downfall. I still persevered and got it as close as possible to the mosaic.