Month: December 2015

  • Blue and White China Print Porcelain Tiles

    Blue and White China Print Porcelain Tiles

    We just added three different types of glazed porcelain tile for use as accents in mixed media mosaic art projects, and the most exciting of these are the blue and white floral china patterns. “Blue and Whites” Porcelain Tiles Blue and White China Print are made to look like pieces cut “Blue and whites” are…

  • How To Transfer Mosaic Patterns Quickly By Tracing

    How To Transfer Mosaic Patterns Quickly By Tracing

    This article explains how to use a charcoal pencil (or graphite pencil) to color the back side of a paper pattern and then trace over the pattern firmly to transfer it to a plywood mosaic backer board. I have written a separate article explaining why tracing borrowed images is better than drawing for making patterns for small mosaics  -even…

  • How To Make Mosaic Patterns Without Drawing

    How To Make Mosaic Patterns Without Drawing

    You can and should spend more time “drawing” with tile than drawing with a pencil when most of the details in the mosaic are about the size the smallest piece of tile that can be cut. If the smallest details of your design are larger than multiple tiles, then you should draw a detailed pattern, but most mosaic plaques…

  • Choosing Mosaic Colors Based On Contrast

    Choosing Mosaic Colors Based On Contrast

    Recently artist Jill Miller emailed me wanting some advice about choosing colors for a mosaic table top she was making, and the design she was a chickadee bird with holly leaves and berries. From her photos and a description of the colors she wanted to use for the border of the round table top, it was…

  • Mosaic Pizza Oven

    Mosaic Pizza Oven

    Mosaic Fireplace and Oven Surrounds: The Basics A couple of years ago, I wrote a page explaining how glass, ceramic, and stone tiles can be used for mosaic fireplace surrounds and how the tiles should be mounted with thinset mortar or white PVA (polyvinyl acetate) adhesives such as Weldbond. But we are talking about the SURROUNDS, not…

  • Real 24kt Gold Mosaic Glass For Art

    Real 24kt Gold Mosaic Glass For Art

    We now sell 24kt gold mosaic glass, and it really is gold and not the brass alloy imitation products that some competitors are rather shamefully selling as gold. We also sell the imitation gold brass foil glass. but we have it correctly labeled and appropriately priced.   Real 24 kt Gold Mosaic Glass The real 24…