Weekend Smalti & Mixed Media!Weekend Workshop - Smalti + Mixed Media + Hand formed Substrates!
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Mosaic Weekend Workshop
AU $330.00 (incl gst)
29 + 30 June 2019 *** FULLY BOOKED ***
13 + 14 July 2019 *** 3 PLACES AVAILABLE ***
9 - 5.30 pm each day.
Deposit $100.00
Smalti + Mixed Media + 3D substrates!
Book now! Max 6 students.
Suitable for students who have completed OzMosaics Beginner workshop and/or OzMosaics Mosaic Floriade 3D workshop - or students who have basic mosaic skills and experience. If you are unsure, please phone and have a chat with Sandy before booking.
Shared B&B accommodation available.
A fantastic mosaic weekend is planned for you!
Dynasty Smalti + Mixed Media + hand-formed mini 3D mosaic substrate weekend.
This intensive, hands-on weekend workshop is sampler based to allow students to explore many mosaic methods and make hand-formed substrates.
Be very creative as you fashion your tesserae using Sandy's pique assiette 3D + pique faciette methods and build on mosaic substrates with special effects!
Sandy loves to alter material surfaces to enhance the beauty of mosaic tesserae and calls her method, pique faciette!
During this hands-on workshop, you will shape smalti from our Dynasty Smalti Collection, using a range of mosaic tools including the desk top hammer + hardie.
Experience traditional smalti technique/andamento and contemporary, faceted smalti tooling.
Try your hand at the wet saw and jigsaw reshaping wine bottles, cups, unusual objects and more! It's easy and fun.
All students will have a set of loaner mosaic tools (Leponitts, Tile Nipper, Score 'n Snap tool and metal Tile File.
Shared Hammer + hardie, wet saw and jigsaw workstations will be set up in and outside the studio.
Students are welcome to bring their own tools, if desired.
Mix + match, reshape + facet a range of mixed media, mosaic materials such as slate, smalti, vitreous + ceramic tile, wine bottles, crockery, mirror + more using the direct, indirect, mosaic on mesh method and more!
Make mosaic samplers on wine bottles to experience working on a vertical surface,
Make mini mesh appliques to showcase the mosaic techniques and materials.
Patterns will be provided for the mosaic samplers.
Imagine making your own undulating, layered + 3D substrate samplers, cutting, shaping and building on fibreglass mesh mats and lightweight mosaic board.
Unleash your creativity with tesserae + exciting substrate options!
Continue working on your mosaic samplers at home.
Grout + tinted thinsets + epoxy paste + substrate materials + slate + mosaic mesh, are included in the workshop price.
Students will bring an assortment of crockery + jewellery to shape into tesserae for their samplers.
Students may shop as they go over the weekend for smalti, vitreous tile, mirror, millefiori and other mosaic materials available in OzMosaics Shop and these items will be added to the checkout final bill.
Day students to bring their own lunch.
Sleepover students will enjoy complimentary breakfast & lunch.
Sleepover students may arrive Friday afternoon and depart Monday morning or discuss your arrangements with us.
Please contact Dave Robertson 07 38474873 or email Studio OzMosaics, for more info on B&B Accommodation costs and general workshop enquiries.
Students will be emailed a list of things to bring after booking in.
Fly out students may take their mosaics home or we can post to you, after the workshop, at your cost.
