Amazing Badge Mosaics!

Another incredibly talented artist that we are proud to write about on our blog is the famous Joe Black. Using the most unexpected materials to create art, Joe doesn’t stop amazing the world with his unique work. Looking at his artworks, one could never believe they are made with handmade badges, assembled one by one to create amazingly detailed portraits. Depicting various images... READ MORE

Alumosaics: Another Recycled Form of Art

Of all the purposes that aluminum has proven to be useful for, Jeff Ivanhoe and his wife found room for one more. In 1981, when Jeff returned one day to see his wife had created the shape of an object with some aluminum pieces she was playing with, the couple already knew they were on to something. Over the next weeks, they worked on their first artwork: the portrait of a Native... READ MORE

The Mysterious Shell Grotto of Kent

So many astonishing discoveries remain unexplainable to the human mind, exactly like the mysterious Shell Grotto in Margate, Kent. Stretching over an underground passageway of 70 feet and home to 4.6 million shells, what has become today an English tourist attraction was discovered in 1835 when James Newlove lowered his son into a hole in the ground that appeared while they were digging a duck... READ MORE

Fine Art Mosaics Made from Play-doh!

Who said clay was only for kids? Meet Lacy Knudson, mother of three, and her artistic invention that goes by the name of “Dozayix”. A combination between PlayDoh and mosaics, Dozayix consists of mushing little balls of clay and putting them together to create great artworks. When she realized what she could do with these colorful tiny dots, Lacy did not hesitate a... READ MORE

Basilica of San Vitale: Famous for a Wealth of Mosaics

One of the most important examples of Christian Byzantine art in Western Europe is the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the basilica is mostly renowned for its wealth of Byzantine mosaics, the largest and best preserved outside of Constantinople.   Although somber from the outside, the church’s interior is brightened by... READ MORE