Month: March 2020

  • Warning: Marine Plywood Not For Mosaic

    Warning: Marine Plywood Not For Mosaic

    Marine plywood cannot be used as a mosaic backer for outdoor and wet mosaic. Yes, marine plywood can withstand the outdoors and wet days for many years, but it is completely unacceptable as a mosaic backer because it swells and contracts with changes in humidity in the outside air. That amount of swelling and contracting…

  • Well-Executed First-Time Mosaic

    Well-Executed First-Time Mosaic

    One of the most well-executed mosaics I have ever seen in terms fine details wrought in slivers of glass came to me in photos in an email last week from artist Irene Clifford. As Natalija pointed out, ” Most people would throw away tiny pieces like that as scraps.” The mosaic is excellent work in…