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Mar 14
Fluffy Puppies Mosaic Stepping Stones
I have Facebook friend named Traci Hallstrom in California whom I met through this wonderful world of mosaics (online). Her pieces are beautiful. Her story about how she came to be a mosaic artist is unique. I love this story and with her permission i am going to present it here.
Mar 06
How to make an owl mosaic
A mosaic owl is a fun way to add natural wisdom to your decor. Making your own is easier than you may think. With some easy to follow steps and easily accessible materials, I am going to tell you how!
Owl instructions:
Materials:
- I used an 8X14.25 wooden owl I had purchased at a thrift store for $1.25 as my base. You can use any cut out you create on your own, or any owl shaped base you may have laying around as I did..
- A variety of iridescent, van gogh, and mirror glass tiles for the body
- Smaller matte glass tiles and flat sided marbles for the eyes
- Weldbond or any pva glue.
- Wheeled cutters
- Black sanded grout
- Grout & tile sealer
- Disposable gloves
Mar 06
Making Mosaic Sunflowers
Mosaic sunflowers were influenced greatly by Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, a masterpiece that has been admired for ages.You too can create your own homage to one of the greats . With some easy to follow steps and accessible materials, I am going to tell you how!
Sunflowers instructions:
Materials:
- I used an 8X10 pre-framed canvas board given to me by Andrea as my base. You can often find canvas board in many sizes at any art supply store
- A variety of iridescent, matte, mirror, and stained glass tiles in blues, golds, yellows, oranges, browns, green, and white.
- Weldbond or any pva glue.
- Wheeled cutters
- A tan colored sanded grout called Haystack
- Grout & tile sealer
- Disposable gloves
Feb 29
How to Make a Simple Mosaic Stepping Stone
Mosaic stepping stones can be a great way to brighten up your garden or outdoor space. But did you know they are simple and fun to make using the indirect method which requires no gluing or grouting! I love that! In this post I am going to show you how to make them.
Materials:
- Round stepping stone mold
- Some kind of cement. I usually use thin set
- Stained glass and/or gems to complete your design
- Contact paper
- Vaseline
- Wheeled nippers
- Pencil
- * Scissors
Feb 29
Mosaic House Numbers
As promised in the “My Son Catches Mosaic Fever” post, I am here to give you the proper step by step guide to creating your own mosaic house number. The process of the old “how to” evolving into this “how to” took the past 6 months and the combined efforts of Matt (my best friend and business partner), Nancy (Matt’s sister and close friend) and myself. A big thanks to both of them! we all had a lot of fun. I do have to say Nancy took to mosaic like a fish to water. She is actually become the authority between the 3 of us.
We spent loads of time and money figuring out the best way to produce a beautiful, unique weather resistant mosaic house number. It is our pleasure to share this process with all of you ambitious DIYers. For anyone that wants to leave the hard part to us we offer these custom mosaic house numbers as a service. You can find the option to buy at the bottom of this post.
Feb 22
Easy Steps to Making a Mosaic Chess Board
A mosaic chess board is a beautiful and elegant way to spruce up the game we all know and love. Having one is easier than you think! I am going to show you how to make one by yourself with only a few materials that are not hard to get.
Chess board instructions:
Materials:
- I use a 12×12 square floor tile….cheap & sturdy. You can use any 12×12 board. If you are using wood, make sure it’s sealed.
- Contrasting pieces of glass or ceramic tiles (for example: black & white). You should make sure they are level.
- Weldbond or any pva glue.
- Wheeled cutters
- Black sanded grout
- Grout & tile sealer
- Disposable gloves
Feb 20
My Son Catches Mosaic Fever
I am so excited to share with every one that my 33 y/o son has taken an interest in mosaic art! My son Leon and his business partner are the web developers behind Mosaic Ideas. During the time spent working together, they have both discovered the beauty of mosaic art. I have mention in the past that I do not use patterns for my mosaics. I was discussing with Leon that I would have to make an exception in order to create a mosaic house number for the front of my home. When Leon heard this he excitedly offered to make one for me. I did not hesitate in accepting his offer. Watching him picking his material reminded me of when he was a little boy doing art projects to be like his mother. I asked if he would be willing to be a guest poster to share his experience with my readers. He agreed and is here to write his first post.
WARNING DO NOT FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS
Leon:
As my mom mentioned I was exposed to mosaic art while helping her with the development and daily maintenance of this blog. My business partner and I run a company that offers these services. As much as I enjoy spending hours of my day working on the computer it was a nice break to get my hands dirty in the workshop. I started out by researching materials (asking my mom and googling when needed) that would survive the outdoors. I am going to go through each step in a “how to” type of post. This is just to give you an idea of how i started. DO NOT use this post as a guide. I will do another “how to” on the more refined process in a later post. Please bare with me this was my first time.
Dec 24
A Mosaic Christmas Ornament Made Easy
Recently, I bought the heart shaped item at dollar store. I thought what a great thing to make an ornament with! There was a saying on it but I disregarded that. It wouldn’t matter anyway because I will be gluing pieces over it. I painted a primer on it using kilza primer. After the primer dried (it did not take long), I painted a thin layer of weldbond on it with a one inch foam brush. I quickly sprinkled red glitter on it and let that dry thoroughly.
Luckily, the heart already had a ribbon on it for hanging. I glued a variety of mosaic pieces on it. Some I left whole and some I cut with a nipper so pieces would fit. After a few hours I proceeded to do above gluing pieces with weldbond glue. The glue can be purchased at most hardware stores. But beware! I happened to need Weldbond and I went to the hardware store to get it. I was told they were out but they had it in the warehouse. They got it for me in the warehouse. When I got home I took it out but they glue had frozen in the warehouse! Ever since then I check the state of the glue before leaving the store. It can save a lot of time and aggravation!
Dec 22
Art Themed Thursdays #6
It is that time of the week again. Before we get to the link party I want to share some exciting news. My son Leon who has been helping me with this blog has caught the mosaic bug YAY! He has been working on a mosaic house number for my home. I even talked him into guest posting about his newly found hobby. So make sure to subscribe to see how he does.
art/ärt/
Noun:
- The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,…: “the art of the Renaissance”
- Works produced by such skill and imagination.
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, whereas disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generations.
Traditionally, the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as “a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science”. Generally, art is made with the intention of stimulating thoughts and emotions.
cre·a·tiv·i·ty/kree-ey-tiv-i-tee/
Noun:
- the state or quality of being creative.
- the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination: the need for creativity in modern industry; creativity in the performing arts.
- the process by which one utilizes creative ability: Extensive reading stimulated his creativity.
Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art, a novel, a joke, etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as “new” may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as “valuable” is similarly defined in a variety of ways.
A blog carnival (blog hop, link party) is an event where like minded bloggers can get together and share ideas while networking. The Mosaic Ideas blog focuses on mosaic art. However I am simply an artist/crafter. I am hosting this blog carnival to bring together all artistic/creative minds. Lets put our creativity together with our communication to make Thursdays all about art.
Blog carnival rules:
- Pick a post from your blog, enter the title and URL in the widget to submit it to the carnival. This post can be anything related to art/artistic expression/crafts/culinary/DIY/ect… This is an open blog hop so if you are involved in any of the arts feel free to link up your link parties, giveaways and Etsy shops.
- We all love comments so if you have time leave me one. More importent visit on or more of the other partiers and leave them a comment.
- Choose either my image link or text link from the codes below and add them to your post or anywhere on your blog.
- Please link to a post and not your home page. We will be adding a blog hop that focuses on home pages in the near future. So be sure to subscribe via RSS so that you don’t miss out.
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