Learn how to make mosaics on Youtube

Helloooo there! I think this is one of those moments when I need to climb to the top of the nearest tower with my megaphone as you have probably entirely forgotten who I am. No prizes for guessing why that is. Ho hum. Twiddledy dee. It’s been a long haul for us all but needless to say mosaics have been my true and loyal companion in this as with everything else. I have been quietly carrying on making them, obsessing about them and thinking about them mostly in the form of Andamento, the journal I edit for the British Association for Modern Mosaic.

As you know I am on a one-woman mission to make the world love mosaics as much as I do but that’s a little difficult at the moment with face to face lessons prohibited, so I had to think of another way to spread the mosaic word. So…..I hereby officially announce the launch of my new YouTube channel.

Are you mad?, I hear you cry. Why teach people how to make mosaics on YouTube for free? Surely that means that they will just learn everything they need to know and the long queue of people desperate to join your live workshops when they finally reopen will quietly fade away into the electronic ether?

Yes, that is a danger. But I cant help myself.  It’s a way of communicating across the lockdown divide. We are all having to adapt and change in the present circumstances and things are moving fast in the online world. Teaching remotely looks like something that I will need to get my head around in the not too distant future so this is my procrastination project.

I wrote a post in 2016 about opportunities to learn mosaics online and in the five years since writing that post, things have changed a lot. Mosaic Arts Online has mushroomed into a rich resource of high quality classes on every conceivable aspect of the art of mosaics. There are also plenty of YouTubers out there already offering advice and how-to videos on the technical side of things. I am not claiming to be anything new or different. I am just adding my name to theirs and suggesting you nip over there every now and again when you have a niggling mosaic question.

The idea is to provide short how-to-make-mosaics videos for people who are starting out as well for those who already make them and are interested in trying out new things. Life is one long learning curve, right? I’ve posted nine videos so far in my first series which is called Mosaic Basics and is intended to teach you all the getting started stuff so you can start making mosaics now.  As time goes on I will go into more depth to help you learn, expand and consolidate your mosaic skills.

So please go and have a look whenever you get a chance and don’t forget to subscribe! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp1dGDK_cfLsjHwwJyJWIQ