My program is more or less satisfactory, so now I have to find myself a good subject for a mosaic. Regardless of the subject, the mosaic had to fulfil following conditions:
- I wanted to make a really big mosaic, at least one square meter (more than 10 square feet) because my collection colourbars had grown significantly.
- It had to be a very colourful mosaic. Unfortunately I had large amounts of black colourbars, so I also wanted the mosaic to contain as much black as possible.
- Besides I didn't want to buy lots of extra material for my mosaic. At this point I still wasn't sure I would go through with it (there is a big difference in making plans and actually execute them).
Adi Steurbaut (my father) has released an artbook in 2001 with a nice overview of his painting carreer. If I choose a painting from this book, I could spare myself the trouble of scanning a picture (no chance of loss of contrast, brightness,...). With the permission of the author I recieved the sourcefile from the printing-office.
General info:
- Size of the original painting: 60x60 cm (24x24 inches)
- Size of the mosaic: 120x120 cm - 288x288 pixels (48x48 inches) (to preserve as many details as possible)
- Designed: May 2002
- Finished: November 2002
Plates:
Total amount of colourbars (1 package contains 5 colourbars):
- 601 black: 96x
- 602 dark blue: 8x
- 603 medium blue: 12x
- 604 medium green: 2x
- 605 dark green: 3x
- 606 red: 5x
- 607 orange: 8x
- 608 yellow: 1x
- 609 beige: 1x
- 610 light brown: 1x
- 611 medium brown: 1x
- 612 dark brown: 1x
- 613 white: 3x
- 614 light grey: 1x
- 615 light pink: 1x
- 616 dark grey: 1x
- 617 olive: 2x
- 619 flesh: 1x
- 620 purple: 1x
- 621 light green: 1x
- 622 corn: 5x
- 623 dark pink: 7x
- 624 light blue: 1x