{"id":5175,"date":"2016-08-01T13:53:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:09","slug":"an-experiment-in-too-many-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/an-experiment-in-too-many-stripes","title":{"rendered":"An Experiment in Too Many Stripes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Stripe<\/p>\n

\u00a0I <\/span><\/span>do <\/span><\/span>have sort of <\/span><\/span>a <\/span><\/span>weakness for the black and white stripes. I like to add just <\/span><\/span>touch<\/span><\/span> of stripes here and there, in a lot of artworks. They just jazz up a pattern or surface.\u00a0 We make a type of mosaic called Pique Assiette, made with broken dishes. So you can imagine <\/span><\/span>how excited I got on spying<\/span><\/span> a whole stack of dishes with black and white stripes<\/span><\/span> in the thrift store<\/span><\/span>. But, believe it or not, I actually left them behind, on the shelf, when on a dish buying trip with <\/span><\/span>mosaic <\/span><\/span>students. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, of course, I just couldn’t resist. I did get exceptionally lucky when I went back on the seniors discount day and found them still there and promptly snapped them up and also got 30% off! Always nice to get a discount, you know.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So now I had this huge stash of black and white stripes to work with. It occurred to me that instead of using them for just an accent here and there, that I could go mad and also have some fun experimenting with using way too many black and white stripes, just to see what would happen…. especially with a few other dishes to take it right over the top! That’s me, just an artistic rebel, ha, ha.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I’d started with just the stripes, the black and white with a “river” of colorful stripes and it just needed something. Which was when I noticed I did just happen to have a few of these bits of cups with black and white bulls eye on them. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Choice<\/p>\n

Finally, almost done with the tedious breaking, gluing and fitting. You’ll have to excuse the glue everywhere.\u00a0 There’s just no way to avoid that messy gluey stage.
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\"mosaic,<\/p>\n

And now a new decision to make.\u00a0 What color grout?\u00a0 And here Will came to the rescue, by Photoshopping a few choices. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Grout<\/p>\n

Since I was already over the top, I did consider really colorful grout. Then black too, but I decided that the uneven black paired with the very straight black on the dishes just wouldn’t work. In the end, I came to the conclusion that the pale grey set off all the pieces and that I really couldn’t\/shouldn’t push the composition any more than I already had.
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Here it is again, Finished! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Stripe<\/p>\n

And a side view too.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Striped<\/p>\n

I’m quite happy with it, oddly. I know it’s over the top, too much pattern, eye popping, on the verge of looking like camouflage, but it has a <\/span><\/span>nice <\/span><\/span>sense of fun to it. <\/span><\/span> The size, by the way, is 8 in x 8 in.\u00a0 Still haven’t come up with a title….<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

O<\/span><\/span>h, Will just came up with a perfect title…..”One, Two, Many”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0I do have sort of a weakness for the black and white stripes. I like to add just touch of stripes here and there, in a lot of artworks. They just jazz up a pattern or surface.\u00a0 We make a type of mosaic called Pique Assiette, made with broken dishes. So you can imagine how Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[1079,1081,1080,404],"class_list":["post-5175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","category-mosaics","tag-astract-pique-assiette-mosaic","tag-mosaic-composition-with-stripes","tag-mosaic-with-broken-dishes","tag-pique-assiette-mosaic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}