By: Connor Bravo

Recreating this Parrot Pergamon Mosaic was more tiring than I originally thought. I almost completely changed my plan on making this mosaic. Firstly, I chose to work on my mosaic on the kitchen table for light and more space instead of in the dark and cold basement. I got my crayons and laid them out onto the table and sorted out the colors. I picked the best colors that I thought looked similar to the colors on the original mosaic. That was the easiest part of this project. After I was happy with the colors I chose, I had to peel off every single wrapper for over 50 crayons so that there wouldn’t be any paper on the mosaic. That really took a lot of time and made me frustrated. After peeling off the paper, I cut each crayon into little pieces and placed them into mini containers. Cutting the crayons into mini pieces made it look like the tiles on the original mosaic. Afterwards, I got my black canvas and sketched out the bird with a pencil so I can outline where to put the little crayon pieces. Instead of using these crayons to melt them down onto the canvas, I just chose to glue the little pieces onto it. Melting would be much harder and be way messier. It was hard choosing what to do with these crayons since there were a lot of possibilities. I poured the glue into a little container first. Then, I dipped a chopstick in it and put little spots of glue onto the canvas. I then put the little pieces of crayons on the canvas and they stuck pretty well. Some crayon pieces weren’t cooperative, so I had to use a lighter to slightly melt them so that they would stick better. So far, recreating this mosaic is going pretty well. I have attached a video/photo montage of my work in progress.