{"id":17344,"date":"2013-07-04T03:05:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T10:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17344"},"modified":"2014-04-29T16:53:23","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T23:53:23","slug":"micro-mosaic-pins-polymer-clay-tutorials-vol-062","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/micro-mosaic-pins-polymer-clay-tutorials-vol-062\/17344\/","title":{"rendered":"Micro Mosaic Pins | Polymer Clay Tutorials Vol-062"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Micro<\/a>6 Videos #404 to #409:<\/span> Tiny intricate mosaics are usually very tedious to make… not these ones!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of the things you may not know about me, is that once upon a time, I taught many other crafts besides polymer clay.<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact, back when I was an night school instructor, I didn’t teach anything to do with polymer clay or jewelry making at all!<\/span><\/p>\n

The classes I taught were in a variety of mediums: paper making, punched tin, card making, painted wine glasses and broken china\/tile mosaics. It was a lot of fun. I met many interesting people and learned a lot about the fine art of teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mosaic work was one of my favorites. In my classes, the students transformed crates of broken dishes and tiny squares of cut glass tiles into wonderful, expressive mosaic artworks. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are a lot of things you need to learn about traditional mosaic work: Cutting tesserae (mosaic pieces); Creating the design and the flow of the tesserae (known as the opus); Gluing the pieces to your base; Grouting and sealing so that your pieces not only look good, but also last for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n

For a while now I have been wanting to do some polymer clay mosaics. There are some wonderful artists who specialize in this art form… like Laurie Mika<\/a> and Cynthia Toops<\/a> for example. But I wanted to do something in my own style… different than what has already been been by others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then it dawned on me… why don’t I use my original designs from the Glass Mosaic Classes I taught years ago, and shrink them down to micro mosaic size? Who better to copy, than myself, LOL.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, that is how this Micro Mosaic Polymer Pin Tutorial came to be. I think you are really going to enjoy how much easier it is to do than the more conventional way of doing micro mosaics. And, you’ll be able to transfer the skills to create all sorts of projects of your own.<\/span><\/p>\n

Posted just below is a Sneak Peak and overview of this months Micro Mosaic Polymer Pins Tutorial. The rest of the 6 part video series will be posted tomorrow (Friday, July 5th, 2013 – Happy US Independence Day Long Weekend), in the Vol-061 section at the Polymer Clay Tutor Library<\/a>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

BTW, if this Micro Mosaic Polymer Pins Tutorial<\/a> tutorial looks exciting to you, please do click that YouTube Like button. Many of you have been giving the Thumbs Up to the weekly YouTube videos, which is great… Thank You!<\/em><\/strong> However, these monthly intro<\/em> clips need some love<\/em> as well. When they don’t get as many likes<\/em>, it makes it look like they are not appreciated as much… which surely can’t be true with all the nice comments you all leave :)<\/span><\/p>\n