Instructor: Karen Zukas
Ages: Adults
Format: 3 1/2 hour workshop
Date: Saturday, October 19th
Time: 10:00 to 1:00
Course Fee: $65 includes pots, adhesive, grout, sealer, ceramic shards, glass bulls eyes, embellishments and some tiles. If you want to be assured of having the colors you want etc., we recommend you bring your own plates to smash up (Savers or Salvation Army). We have lots of plates here for you to smash up as well. Please bring a hammer, old towel and tile nippers.
Mosaic Plant Pots - Ceramic shards
These are incredible, for indoors or outdoors. In this workshop, you will learn to make mosaics by making one with a medium sized terra cotta pot. Any larger, and we'll be here for days. Mosaics date back to Mesopotamia ! You can still learn to make them today ! They're revered the world over as fine crafted works of beauty and can also be quite practical in use. In this workshop, you'll learn to make these beautiful pieces and you'll never be without a gift to give or you'll never regret breaking another plate !! We'll begin by covering a modest sized pot, once you learn the skill, you can do them as large as you like ! Purchasing mosaic tiles is quite costly and unnecessary so we prefer to recycle and to use broken shards of my own pottery, or beautiful patterned or textured pieces found in thrift stores. It's fun breaking them up with a towel and a hammer, then finely shaping with tile and glass nippers ! We'll also use tile adhesive, grout, tools, knippers and the pots themselves. Besides broken ceramics or tiles, you're also welcome to use glass boullions sea shells, sea glass, bits of decorative metal and such; in time, you'll be scouring the earth for possibilities.