Making Mosaics: A Painter’s Approach

The author, a painter and mosaicist, believes that mosaics should be made by painters, as were the fine mosaics of the Byzantine period. He is interested in mosaics of the kind in which one proceeds freely from a rough preliminary drawing or cartoon, a technique called ‘Byzantine painting’ by André Grabar. He describes aspects of the technique that will be useful to those who desire to try this form of pictorial art.