My Mosaic Poppy Art

My poppy art

My art is called Mosaic Poppy Art.

It's a picture of a poppy created out of glass tiles.
I wanted to do a mosaic picture as I have never done this before but it looks really great. I wanted to do a poppy flower because the poppy is really important to me. Both my great-grandfathers were in the war. I have been to the last 4 ANZAC parades and have worn my great-grandfathers dress medals at each of them.

To make this mosaic art, I used a black painted wooden base, black tiles (60), green tiles (5), red tiles  (77) and dark grey grout. 

I first found a poppy pattern on the internet and traced this onto the wooden backing board that I painted black. Next I arranged my tiles to fit the pattern and glued each one onto the board. When the glue had dried, I put the grey grout into the gaps and smoothed it with my granddad's special grouting tools and a sponge. When the grout was really dry, I polished it with a clean rag.

My biggest challenge was to find something that the tiles would stick onto. First I used a piece of plastic board but the glue did not stick so my dad had to cut me a piece of wood with his saw. It was  hard getting the pattern right, but before I glued them I moved them around to make sure they were in the right place.

I really loved doing this mosaic art as it challenged me - I have never done any mosaic art before. I really loved the poppy design and I can't wait to do another one with the left over tiles that I have.

Art Plan

Name: Rosie Keene

Later in the term, the whole school is taking part in a visual arts exhibition. You will have to make your own piece of visual art.

We are LEARNING, CREATING AND SHARING through the ARTs

Success Criteria of the art

• No larger than A3
• Must be super high quality (your absolute personal best)
• Must be a type of visual art
• Must be aesthetically pleasing (it has to look good)
• It must challenge you (aim high)

There is an example of how to do Task 2 on the wall.

Task 1

Discuss with your learning buddy about all of the different types of visual art (there are lots!).

Write 3 of them below.

1. Painting

2.Sculpture

3.Ceramics

Task 2- Your plan

Please insert a picture of what your completed art will look like. (It will be either: an image from the internet, a google drawing or a rough draft).

MY ART

For my art I am going to do a mosaic poppy. I love the poppy and saw so many of them at the Te Papa Museum in the Gallipoli exhibit recently. I am really excited about this and it will challenge me.

This is a rough draft of my art. The black background area will be covered with black tiles (and the centre of the flower), the red part of the poppy will be covered with red tiles and the green area of the stalk will be covered with green tiles.

Poppy Draft

Write a list of materials you will need.

If a material is not in the classroom, include how you will get it.

LIST OF MY MATERIALS

1x black backing board (A3 size)

Picture of a poppy flower

PVA Glue – strong hold

Pencil, Ruler, Scissors,

Black tiles, red tiles and green tiles

Black grout (maybe)

I asked mum to take me to the Tile Warehouse to do some research on my mosaic art and the lady there asked me what I wanted to do. After I had told her, she gave me a huge box of mosaic glass tiles in all different colours, shapes and sizes that she no longer needed and said I could have them all. She also got her husband to cut me an  A3 size of black backing board as this is what they display their tiles on and had heaps spare.

The only materials that I now need are Extra Strength PVA glue (which we have at home), pencils and a ruler. I might need some black grout (which my granddad has at his place) once my tiles are stuck onto the backing board, but the lady at the tile warehouse told me to wait until I had finished gluing on my tiles as it might not be needed. She said that this is the only part that I might need an adult.

Write a list of steps to take.

STEPS

1. Draw lines on the backing board the size of the tiles, so that I can get a straight line for each row of the background tiles.
2. Draw an outline of the poppy flower that I found on the internet on the backing board.
3. Arrange my tiles on the backing board, I will put the red ones round the inside of the poppy flower outline and then place the black centre tiles and then fill the rest in (this will take a while as the tiles need to be in the right place before gluing).
4. I will take a photo of the tiles just sitting on the board so I can look at it when I am gluing the tiles on. I need to make sure they are where I want them as I cant move them when they on with glue.
5. I will count how many tiles I need for the each part of the art, black part, flower, centre bit and stem.
6. I will glue the tiles in their place on the backing board, one tile at a time.
7. Once I have finished gluing the tiles on the backing board I will have a look and see how it looks. If the gaps are too big, I might have to put some black grout in them. For this part, I might need some adult supervision.
8. If I need to add grout, I will have to wipe off the excess grout with a damp cloth and let it set hard.
9. This will be the end of my finished art piece.