In my honors art three classes, one of the projects we were given challenged us to recreate a famous work of art. After several days of searching I had failed to find any work of art that jumped out at me. That is until I began looking at the mosaics, after searching for a few minutes I found an ancient Islamic mosaic on the side of a temple. Even though we were supposed to recreate the artwork using the same medium as the original artist my art teacher made an exception for me, considering tiles were rather impractical. So now facing the challenge of translating a piece of art from one medium to another I decided that cross-stitching the mosaic would be the best way to translate it. Which in all honesty would have been the best method, if I knew how to cross-stitch.
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None the less I am never one to back away from a challenge, especially if the challenge is art related, so I began weeks of work. I started by attempting to create a pattern for myself, this was a week of guess and check work that ended up being nearly pointless because I was only able to understand the pattern when I began
None the less I am never one to back away from a challenge, especially if the challenge is art related, so I began weeks of work. I started by attempting to create a pattern for myself, this was a week of guess and check work that ended up being nearly pointless because I was only able to understand the pattern when I began