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Mosaic Artist Frederic Lecut's Opus Pixellatum Technique
By Joe Moorman
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2017
About this lesson
Explains Frederic Lecut's 'Opus Pixellatum' method of gridding a reference photo, numbering each cell with a color code, and then placing tesserae with deliberate andamento and improvisation instead of mechanically filling every cell.
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