Planes, Trains and Automobiles

One of the greatest movies ever (agreed) but none of the 3 things listed in the title are in the mosaic yet it SIMPLY had to be the title.    I just spent the majority of my lunch taking footage of the mosaic with my andriod phone,  posting it to youtube,  copying from youtube to my desktop using keepvid.com,   importing it to imovie to give it background music, posting it back on youtube to finally bring you this-

http://youtu.be/vKUMwJ7cdrw

Phew!  I am technologically tuckered!
The quality is not great and the music is what I had in my itunes library BUT it is a start and has inspired me to take more videos as this mosaic takes shape.

Back to gluing tiles...

Rocks

Are there any beach combers out there?    I am in need of flat rocks in many colors (pink, white, black grey, bluish grey)   to add to the mosaic.    Rocks should be bigger than a walnut but smaller than a Yukon Gold potato.    Please drop them off in the main office at the middle school in Camden.

Many Thanks!

Kristen

Time is Flying!

87 students (about a 1/4 of our school population) have worked on the mosaic so far and there is still PLENTY of opportunity for kids to come down 

and glue on some tile pieces!     

Stats to dates-

 25-   5th graders   

15- 6th graders  

21- 7th graders 

26- 8th graders  

 2nd bird done with legs!   (although the legs are not glued down yet)

2 birds and a possible 3rd might join them!  Notice the sky forming.   It started out white at the horizon line and has transitioned to light blue.   Soon kids will be transitioning into a slightly darker blue and will continue that pattern until the top.

I see blue skies all around me.....

birds again

Color study of water.   Tile will be cut in half when finally glued down.

Color Study of water.

Close- up of sky starting to fill in

Horizon line water color study

Hellllloooooooooooooo!

Close-ups!

cloud upside down

cloud close-up

bird closeup w/ smalti

trees, grassy area and rocky area

glass tile against natural beach stones

ooh la la

New pictures of the bird and castle

Tiles are roughly placed to get an idea of color scheme

The bird will look more like this once cut and glued into place

Beach stones will create Mt Battie castle.  We have to decide whether or not to leave spaces between stones or place glass tiles/smalti between them.

Thank You Michael Roy!

Michael Roy (Phi Home Designs) has been coming in to help straighten out our boards.   This morning he put horizontal supports across the 2 1/2' x 5 ' sections.   The boards are perfectly straight and all is well again to begin glueing the larger rocks on the boards.


The castle will have beach stones instead of glass tiles.  We are hoping it will be a nice contrast.

Smalti arrived in the mail yesterday!  Yahoooo.  Stay tuned for more photos!

Hopkins inspires Camden-Rockport Middle School artists - Kim Lincoln - Rockland - Camden - Knox - The Herald Gazette

Hopkins inspires Camden-Rockport Middle School artists - Kim Lincoln - Rockland - Camden - Knox - The Herald Gazette