Beautiful! This is the one I’ve been needing to see. An outdoor tile table broke, and this is my first time doing mosaic. And of course I want to add different types of materials and I needed some tips and tricks and there they are. Thank you so much!
Hi Peter , I just want to say thankyou again . You are an inspiration , and a great teacher .This piece is beautiful and Its always really lovely to see others using their creative energy in a good way and inspire others . lovely !
Thanks Peter for another great video. I’m currently binge watching your collection and am learning heaps in the process. Such a wonderful resource for a newbie like myself. A fellow Victorian here 😊
I'm just starting to watch this one and just wanted to say that winging it is what go me interested in doing mosaic art. I love the way you see what comes to you next. Not to say that I don't relish knowing more about what I'm doing technique-wise. Anyway...
Thankyou so much Liz. Technique is important and comes down to how far you would like to take it. I love winging as its takes the expectation and pressure off things so you can enjoy the journey more. It also allows me to think outside the box and create new ideas. :)
Hi Peter! Thanks for sharing all your videos. Absolutely love them. Can you please tell me where you get the double wheeled nippers you are using. Thank you!!
Thankyou very much Dale. I have listed the retailers in Australia and the USA in the information box of this video. They are called QEP Extreme Double Wheeled Nippers, I love using them. I have also reviewed these nippers in a video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DvqWlfz-d54.html Thankyou for watching. :)
I came across your channel because I was searching for was to reuse chipped pieces of my great grandmother's china that I didn't want to throw out. I was wondering, can milk glass also be used for mosaics? I know that may be a silly question but I have no knowledge regarding mosaics. I'm glad I happened across your channel so I can start learning!
Thankyou so much, appreciate that and definitely a very good question. I personally haven't used milk glass even though its been around for a long time and I cant speak specifically about your job as there are many variables. I cannot see why you cant use it, you can use pretty well anything in a mixed media mosaic but of course whenever you use any materials you need to consider where its going and how its going to be used, if its going to be used in a mosaic hanging on a wall in a loungeroom it should be fine. Things become more complex if you were considering doing an outside piece because everything needs to take the weather and be waterproof. Another thing to consider is also grouting, how well will it grout if you are planning to grout especially if its textured. I would think for inside you should be fine to use if its real glass and glazed, if its translucent it may be fine perhaps in a Glass On Glass where the light shines through but again I haven't used it before. I would consider a small test or post it with a photo in a couple of the Facebook mosaic groups such as Mosaic Mentoring. :)
Thankyou so much Carolyn. Yes you can buy the MDF from hardware stores, there are different qualities I believe, I then cut out out my own designs, I was selling the shapes at one point in time and then off loaded them to a company called Merlin Mosaica here in Australia. Merlin Mosaica now sells this design if you wanted one already cut out. :)
Thankyou very much Athanasia and thankyou for watching. I generally buy my stained glass online from Merlin Mosaica unless I am travelling somewhere and can buy it in a shop. There's nothing like handling it physically, I would have a Google because I'm not sure what's in Sydney)
Peter I love your beautiful heart, did you hang this piece? How thick is the substrate? Thank you, I’m new to mosaic and am learning a lot from you, thank you again Peter!
Thankyou so much, appreciate that and glad the videos are helping. The heart is just stored away in a box and the MDF was around 12mm. Quite thick but it allowed the hangers to really go in, no flex and I could mosaic the sides if I wanted to. :)
Hi Peter, fellow Australian here - love your videos and the wealth of info you share in them. I am currently starting on just my second mosaic project - this time I am mosaicing over a three-dimensional form that I have made in direct plaster (it's a warrior wielding a sword). I was wondering if there is any special treatment of the plaster that I ought to do before gluing the tiles on. My experiments thus far of gluing stained glass tesserae onto the form (using Selleys Aquadhere) have worked, but I notice that quite a small amount of agitation will loosen them from the surface. I'm thinking forward to the grouting process and how that involves not-so-gentle movements above the tesserae. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks again for this great channel!
Thankyou so much Chris, appreciate that. I cant answer specifically to your job as there are so many variables that that I cant see as per any mosaic job. I haven't had any experience with plaster nor do I know which plaster you've used however adhering to plaster I could see issues with it especially going outside as its porous and cant totally be waterproofed. The substrate I would have gone with is a high grade polystyrene, even pieces of polystyrene glued together, sculptured it and used alkaline resistant adhesive mesh tape and a cement based adhesive or PalTiya which is a sculpting medium. You may be able to use PalTiya over the plaster applying Alfoil over it first and then adding PalTiya. If you continue to use plaster as is and adhering to it I would be looking at sealing it first but like I said I don't have any experience using plaster. :)
@@TreasuryRoad Massive thanks for replying in such depth! I will investigate these options and products you suggested. Plaster (in this case the regular casting kind) is very porous as you mentioned - perhaps it wasn't the best choice of substrate. At the same time, I've seen artists mosaic over just about everything - particularly old trinkets lying about the home. PalTiya sounds like an interesting route to explore. Thanks again for the great videos! I managed to complete a 25cm circle cockatoo earlier in the year in part thanks to your videos taking a piece from beginning through to the grouting and cleaning stages. Thanks very much for the content and I look forward to future content!
@@johnpseudonymsmith Thanks so much Chris, there's always more than one way to do a project and you will find that people will use things that maybe I wouldn't, it doesn't mean its wrong its just I prefer to over engineer, all parts of the mosaic needs to be considered on where they are going to end up as every part of the mosaic needs to work as one if one thing fails the mosaic will fail, if you go outside the tried and proven with any part of a mosaic then that's where R&D becomes a very important part of the work. :)
Thankyou so much. The nippers are the QEP Extreme double wheeled nippers, they are great to use and are only suitable for glass. Here's a RU-vid video review I made on them. Thanks for watching and commenting. :) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DvqWlfz-d54.html
HI , i found you through Sara, my serenity crafts. just wondering how to you clean the permanent marker off? your heart looks gorgeous, between you and Sara, i now want to try glass mosaics! thanks, Diana vic, 🇦🇺
Thankyou so much Diana, welcome, Sara is very talented and love her work, you must have a go at mosaics, its quite addictive. If the marker is on glass or anything smooth I just use water or baby wipes, as the surface is very shiny it comes off with a little rubbing. :)
The ones l used in this video are the QEP extreme double wheeled glass nippers. However there is a similar pair that l like better because it has bumpers and stops most of the shards from flying around. They are a later release. They are called the SeaBell double wheeled glass nippers and can only be used for cutting glass. I have made a video on them and the links are in the description box of that video, Thanks for watching. 😊 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iIpjW6uwggc.html
