I'm still a rookie, but I found this tutorial really encouraging and straight forward. I can't wait to tackle my first official mosaic - thank you Karen!
Wow Karen thats great! I'm about to grout my piece and this was very helpful. Thank you! Your class was so much fun. It was great to be under the wing of a warm and inspiring mosaic master!
Thanks heaps, from down under 🇦🇺🦘. Total beginner and very nervous about the grouting and how to tackle it, your video was precisely what I needed. Just brilliant. Thanks heaps again 😊👍🏼
like your work!! love art and learning more about mosaic and having a hard time with ending task. thank you for showing me more of the how to. i will they to do it . plus better then i have in the past!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Karen. There are lots of videos on doing mosaic pieces and yours is the most informative and easiest to follow. Just curious, where do you pour the used water when you have finished? I want to do your technique today and don't want to stop anything up. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
thanx lovely presentation ... do you not seal the grout against dust, mildew, etc.? I did a mosaic tray and want to seal but want to be sure the seal does not yellow. Here in FL I know in time the little critters and dust bunnies will mess with my pure white grout on a tray that will be used and displayed as art.
I've grouted a couple of very difficult applications and I'm not sure if I did it correctly. Although I'm not sure there is a correctly. I did my bathroom backsplash so it's a vertical application which is a level of challenging to begin with. And then the materials that I used were glass gems, seashells, broken glass vase. I didn't want to bury my seashells and not be able to get the grout off so I put my grout into a plastic bag and cut the tip off and piped in the grouting in between each piece and then Smooths it in with my fingers and a wet Q-tip. It was very time consuming and I'm not sure if I got it in everywhere that it needed to go and it was a little uneven. I tried to smooth that out with my fingers afterwards. So I don't know if there is another technique that I could have used. I would appreciate any thoughts that you have. Now I am almost finished with my kitchen backsplash. And this is again a number of different materials. I'm using broken pottery mostly plates, some rocks, and then some little pretty Embellishments that I'm concerned about covering with grout again. And as you can imagine the pottery is not all the same height. so I know that will prove somewhat challenging although that's probably the least of my worries. Again any thoughts that you might have about this I would appreciate. In some ways I'm not anticipating as much difficulty as with the seashells.
Hi, great helpful video, thanks! I have a couple of questions: Isn’t it preferable to use non-sanded grout when you’re doing glass mosaics, won’t the sanded-type grout scratch the glass? Also, I'm wondering how to get a true, dark black grout, I bought the darkest one I could find in Home Depot (charcoal), and though when it was wet while I was using it, it seemed nice and black, unfortunately it dried quite a bit lighter. Is there a brand of truly black grout you can recommend, or can I get it darker by adding paint or stain to it, and if so, can you recommend what type of paint/stain for that too? Thanks in advance!
You're welcome. Good question. Sanded grout doesn't scratch the glass. Yes, I would suggest finding a grout or cement stain that you can add to a commercial black grout. Sherry Warner-Hunter --swhartstudioinc. wpcomstaging.com
Wow you really like your grout on the dry side. I see all different consistencies of grout and I think I prefer it on the Wet side. I really like how you use your hands for the mixing and application of the grout. I think people struggle with using tools to apply the grout when they can just use their hands. Do you think that there is a benefit to having your grout a little bit dryer. I just liked it wetter because it seemed to move better. But I don't know maybe there is a benefit to having that dryer.
I’m a newbie and agree with your points. I prefer it wetter bc it’s slides across easier. From what I’ve seen it doesn’t seem to matter the consistency. Just preference I think. Also yes, tools are so awkward! Just using my hands next time lol
I have a question that might be kind of stupid. I notice a lot of people in these grouting videos that mix up huge batches of grout. And there's no way that their projects could use all that grout. Is there a reason for that? I know you might want to have a little bit more and what you might use just to cover spots that you might have missed. But I'm just curious to know why so much grout for such a small project? And I've seen so many people do at that I now am thinking maybe there's a reason.
Hi Paralegal Studies-I suggest you visit Delphi Glass Company for stained glass supplies and tools. Also Wits End Mosaics for vitreous glass. Ikea for the Malma mirror and Home Depot for polyblend sanded grout. Weldbond adhesive. Regardless of your experience, making mosaics is a very welcoming process and invites your own creativity and imagination! Thank-you for your appreciation and good luck!
My understanding between the difference of sanded vs unsanded grout is the application. You use sanded grout for grout joints that are larger than 1/8 of an inch and if it is going to be in a wet application or outside. I hope that's correct. But that's my understanding. So that being said I think that and it is probably more versatile then the unsanded. I've actually never worked with unsanded grout before. But I would like to just to see the difference.
Can anyone recommend how to grout something that is not as smooth as this art piece? Mine are not as flat and smooth, so I end up cutting my gloves and hands
@@MosaicMorphosis Hello Karen, Thank you for your quick response. How can I attach a photo? I do not see an attachment link. I am playing with clear epoxy to encase them but would love to grout them
Oh my.. you forgot your mask! Always wear a mask when dealing with dry grout.. no good for your lungs if you are to breathe it in which is inevitable. Wonderful video otherwise. Super helpful, thank you!
