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"Layers of Love" 8ft. x 35ft.
Coconut Grove Children s Mosaic Mural – Started Oct 2009 – Completed 2011 Led by Mosaic Artist Cyndy Hill and Artist  Eileen Seitz and the Village of Coconut Grove, Florida

Mural can be seen on the Post Office walls of Coconut Grove, FL.  Grand Ave and McDonald Ave.

Cyndy and Eileen pose with the original watercolor  "Layers of Love’ Eileen painted from the inspirationof Mosaic artist Cyndy Hill and the original drawings and paintings given to her by some of the kids from The Barnyard Center and Shake-a-Leg Miami.

 

Sea Turtle Oversight Protection www.SeaTurtleOP.org,  commissioned Eileen Seitz to paint this magnificent night scene of a turtle returning to sea.

6″ x 9″ Postcards were printed and placed into the hotel bedrooms along Broward County’s Beaches to guide and ask the guests to close the blinds at night before they leave the room.

STOP is a sea turtle conservation organization that is dedicated to the scientific and educational aspects of the human impacts to sea turtles on Broward County’s beaches, nationally and internationally.

Our primary directive is to humanly rescue the hatchlings from injury and death caused by
disorientation due to artificial illumination of the nesting habitat.
The science is obtained from our collection of data through real time observation and FWC
approved night vision cameras filming the nightly hatch outs and disorientation events of
endangered and threatened sea turtle hatchlings.

This data is compiled, organized, updated and available to the public via our website.
The data pool is the most extensive and accurate disorientation database in the state
of Florida to date operated by a private nonprofit.

To my surprise I received an email with my painting
“The House of Ruby 2011 official Delray Affair Poster”
as the Cover of Delray Beach, Florida
“The Real Yellow Pages”

Coconut Grove Childrens Mosaic Mural- US Post Office

Commissioner Marc Sarnoff ( and his Chief-of-Staff, Ron Nelson)
enabled and encourage Cyndy and Eileen to proceed with this project.

Major Conributors, Ron Nelson
Juan Carlos Ruiz (who donated the tiles for the mosaic.)

January 2011 and the tiles and thinset, grout have arrived!. Cyndy sits on the mound.

Cyndy, Eileen and Cynthia Shelly sit by the tiles outside of Shake-a-Leg, Miami, holding the blown up patterns made of the childrens original art works.

Eileen with the actual artwork created by the children from Shake-a-Leg, Miami and The Barnyard Center.

Here Cyndy and Eileen began the scoring of mosaic tile which were then made into color boards, by name, color and title. This is what we used to assemble all the elements.

Chris helps Cyndy cut tile Assistants Helen and Claudia cut tile.

Kids from Coconut Grove Elementary Leonard from The Barnyard Center
having a great time painting the patterns.

Sylvia from The Barnyard Center paints with Cyndy Cyndy pulling tiles

Eileen and Mary work on the yellow and blue fish… The original pattern – the fished mosaic.

This is the largest fish, spanning 4 feet

Eileen sits next to the BIG FISH

Helen creates the beautful blue anemone Eileen works on the pink and yellow fish

Here is the blown up pattern Completed fish

Cyndy teaches Melissa at the Net
Emilio and Daehmun make the sun at The Barnyard Center

Nancy is happy with her clouds
Julian and friend make the golden star fish

Brandy, Qeddrick and Drequan work on the grasses

Eileen paints the mangrove, sand and grass.
Shaun our assistant at The Barnyard lays out the life size patterns

Herman works on a Jelly fish Fiona works on the clouds

Cyndy and I are measuring the tree, grass and sand area to make this into 30″ x 30″ panels.

Working with Lindas completed fish Cyndy and I added the beginnings of the water, and tree in this panel. The puzzle pieces are coming to life.

Cyndy and I sit on the layed out artwork, picking and placing where they best fit, according to the original watercolor I painted using the kids artwork as the inspiration.

Stacks of carboard holding the completed elements. Cyndy and I worked from 12:00 noon to 11:00 pm just making it right.

Cyndy laying out a grid for 55 panels. This is how her mind sees things.

Plastic bags for us to use for each particular panel, will hold the broken tiles so we can complete the water around the elements.

Here Cyndy and I pull the broken tile per panel.
This is one of the completed panels.

I was commissioned to create an inviting space for the entrance to the “Spa” at Aruj Salon here in Coconut Grove. Aruj is located at the cornerof Fuller and Grand Ave.
I started with the blank door and two walls and ceiling.

The left wall had two electrical boxes on it and a hole in the wall, so I took a piece of canvas, continued the artwork on it
and hung it on a dowl at the top to cover the boxes but still accessible.
 The rest is magic.

Delray Affair

April 15, 16, 17

This  year my “House of Ruby” original watercolor became the 3rd historical house in the series as the official Festival Poster… It sold at the festival.  It was a great festival.. Lots of new people to meet and lots of business..

I want to share my latest creation.. My Jigsaw Puzzle, Rainbow Reef.
Its  1000 Pieces and so fabulous to put together. Image is 24″ x 30″

You can order these on my website under Jigsaw Puzzle.  The 1000 pieces will keep you busy for sure..
the color quality is terrifc and fits perfectly together when the pieces are correct.

I hope you will give it a try.

DAy One begins, Ronnie and Julio help me paint my colors.
 

Have a look Just wanted to share this was just posted

A friend / realtor in Coconut Grove Beth Kipnis posted this to her blog..

   http://planetmiamirealestate.com/2011/02/17/eileen-seitz-artist-in-residence-of-coconut-grove/