New Mosaic Bench

August 11, 2018 Rachel Rodi

Our most recent mosaic bench was created in honor of a lost loved one for a local family. Love and peaceful thoughts were poured into the design and mosaic work. Piece by piece the project came together through a sense of contemplation as well as joy, beauty and fun. These are not easy projects to make yet very important. We are honored to have been part of this time.

Mosaic production assistance by: Glynnis Kaye, Denise Hart, Jesse Medina, Siram, Carol Bevilacqua and Sophia Othman

Labyrinth LithoMoasic Installation In Action!

August 5, 2018 Rachel Rodi

Our enormous mosaic labyrinth was installed at Hal Brown Park this May after months of hard work with the whole team in the studio. Check out the intricate and fast paced process of aligning the 60 huge mosaic sections directly into wet concrete. T.B Penick's stellar crew did a great job on the installation. We're very happy to have made this litho mosaic for Marin County Parks! And super grateful for everyone on the mosaic production team. You can see the completed project HERE

Deciding exactly where to place the entrance and expansion joints... Got it!

The center circle goes in first

TB Penick's team laying the mosaic sections in face down

Concrete poured in the first half of the labyrinth!

Map of mosaic sections

Sections ready to go in

Rachel helps do small repairs

Wonderful maze of scaffolding planks

Almost all the mosaics are in!

Making the Labyrinth Center

August 4, 2018 Rachel Rodi

A great group came together in early May to make the center of the LithoMosaic labyrinth we created for Hal Brown Park in Larkspur. About 30 people of all ages participated and were so quick we finished early. Everyone did such a great job! The full labyrinth was installed the next week and came together beautifully. Stay tuned for exciting install pictures on the way :-)

We used color body porcelain and Mexican smalti

Filling the seams back in the studio

Creating Our Mosaic Labyrinth - Beginnings

May 27, 2018 Rachel Rodi

Here are the beginnings of our 36' pebble mosaic labyrinth for Hal Brown Park in Marin. This is our first official LithoMosaic installation, where the mosaic is installed directly into the concrete. Very exciting! The project is so enormous we ended up renting a special studio space from the gorgeous and brand new ArttHaus Studios in Oakland just for the mosaic production. A huge treat. Our materials are all flat cut pebbles for the pathway outlines and color body porcelain for the center circle - almost 400 sq ft in all. Installation pictures coming soon!

Sophia Othman and Angelina Duckett laying the first pebbles

The template is enormous! And this is only half.

Carol Bevilacqua!

Getting close to having this half of the labyrinth complete!

All the pebbles are down!

Our project LithoMosaic concrete color sample. Definitely going with Terra Cotta.

Ocean and Pier Murals Grand Reveal Celebration

May 20, 2018 Rachel Rodi

Check out these pics and a quick video of the great Skechers Ocean and Pier Murals reveal celebration that took place last month. A large group gathered on April 11 to see the curtains drawn and celebrate the Skechers Manhattan Beach flagship store re-opening after months of work remodeling the store and creating the murals.

The two mosaics took over 2000 hours to create from design to installation. An incredible team of 14 artists assisted Rachel with mosaic production who worked tirelessly to complete the murals. We are very proud to have created these mosaic murals for Skechers!
See more images and info on the Ocean Mural and the Pier Mural.