Toasty Celebrity Portraits!

Ever seen celebrity portraits looking so good you can actually eat them? When those portraits are made with burnt toasts, you definitely can! (But don't, it's art). New Zealand artist Henry Hargreavesadds his name to the artists who have succeeded in distinguishing themselves through their arts. Henry is the first to create mosaic portraits out of pieces of toasts, inspired... READ MORE

Meet the Inventor of Mural Mosaics!

If you ever wondered who was behind the concept of mural mosaic and how it started, here’s a story that will quench your curiosity. The first mural mosaic was created in 1997 when artist Lewis Lavoie had the genius idea to paint hundreds of paintings and assemble them to make up the face of Michelangelo’s David. The unique work of art was placed on a retaining wall next to an... READ MORE

Enormous Roman Mosaic Unearthed in Southern Turkey

It’s in a farmer’s field that what’s thought to be the largest Roman mosaic in Southern Turkey was found, when back in 2001, archaeologists took notice of marble fragments showing up on a freshly plowed field near the ancient city of Antiochia ad Cragum.   Today, museum archaeologists have unveiled about 40% of the mosaic, likelydating back to the third or fourth... READ MORE

Alexander the Great Mosaic

Did you know that Alexander the Great had a mosaic named after him? The Alexander Mosaic is a famous Roman floor pavement from the House of the Faun in Pompeii dating from circa 100 BC. It illustrates the battle between Alexander the Great and Darius III of Persia, known as the battle of Issus. What’s most impressive about this mosaic is that it is made from about one and a half... READ MORE

A Mosaic Made of Wine Corks!

If you heard about Samir Strati, you can expect nothing less than such level of unusual creativity. After creating many outstanding works, it became an annual tradition for Samir to set a Guinness World Record. Known to be a mosaic artist, Strati used nails, toothpicks, eggshells, compact discs, coffee beans among other materials to create the world’s most unique mosaics. One of his... READ MORE