Learn how to make mosaics on Youtube
Helen Miles launches her new YouTube channel to teach you how to make mosaics. The channel offers short how-to videos and mosaic tips and tricks.
Category: Mosaic Tutorials
Playing with colour in mosaics
Playing with Colour by Joanna Kessel At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic the British Association for Modern Mosaic introduced a series of six online ‘events’ called Prompts from the Pros (PftP). The idea was to encourage mosaic artists to use the strange hiatus induced by lockdown to explore different …
How to make mosaics: the tile adhesive method
First things first: the tile adhesive method is the same as the thin set method. Got it? Good. It’s a simple point but it can be curiously confusing if you are coming across references to thin set and you don’t know what it is. Our American friends call tile adhesive, …
The secrets of using thinset for mosaics by Julie Sperling
I am delighted to present a guest post (my first) by award winning Canadian mosaicist Julie Sperling about using thinset for mosaics. Julie’s work stands apart in being both fiercely beautiful and intelligently polemical. In her hands mosaics move out of the decorative realm and into a hybrid world where …
8 Easy Steps to Make Larger Mosaics on Mesh
Larger mosaics on mesh. Part II of a 2-part post on making mosaics on mesh. Let me cast your minds back to February, 2014 when I wrote a step-by-step tutorial post on how to make a mosaic on mesh. Back then I was full of the joys of mesh and …
Making Roman mosaic copies
Roman mosaic copies – why? It’s not unusual for me to look at an ancient mosaic in situ or pore over the details of one hanging in a museum and seriously wonder if there’s any point in what I’m doing. Modern mosaics inspired by ancient designs. That’s me but, I …