This third community-created mosaic project created by the residents of Twin Lakes with Jan Brown Checco represents the seasons passing through the local landscape of Montgomery, Ohio. A blend of hand modeled high fired tiles, stones and fossils, commercial tiles and glass pieces, the surface of the mosaic has varied levels of relief and whimsical details to discover on close inspection. The fabrication of the mosaic required five months of weekly workshop sessions in the Twin Lakes Pottery Studio.
Projects – Community Based – Twin Lakes Mosaics-Four Seasons (2011)
Watercolor sketch for mural
Color Sketch surrounded with typical tiles to be used
Dried detail tiles
Refined and segmented bush, low relief carving
Low relief carving of racoon in bush
Tiles laid out on drawing
Lois working on tree canopy of nipped porcelain tiles
Tiles laid in place on Wonderboard
Tiles on wonderboard
Tiles laid out on Wonderboard
Installed panels with grout applied
Spring cascade with nesting bird and weeping cherry
Sailboat on lake near the meadow
Fish in stream, bird on the bank
A raccoon peers out from a bare bush in a snow bank
A worker picks up apples from the orchard floor