Designing a Glass Mosaic

Series Summary

Creating mosaics can be an artistic way to spruce up a garden, path, walkway, or kitchen tile backsplash. Learn how to add simple creative touches to your home with homemade glass mosaics. Our expert, a student of mosaic art, will show you how to break glass to use in your mosaics, how to design and weatherproof a mosaic, and show you what tools you'll need to get started. You'll also learn how to create an artistic kitchen backsplash with mosaic tile, as well as some of the principals that go into the design process.

Video Transcript

"On my mosaic design, the first thing I did was I did a lot of sketches just to come up with ideas. So I started with some, just some really quick sketches of dreams and some suns, some different geometric shapes to represent stars or planets. Then I started playing with this bird thing and in sort of an abstract way. And these are some other designs. So I basically was doodling the designs. And once I decided on a design, I decided that I wanted to add a splash in my kitchen, and I decided I wanted it to be the cycle of the moon. And so what I did was for the full moon, which is this, I did several sketches of the full moon. And once I decided that is what I wanted to do, I did a final sketch. And the final sketch is done in a very precise, geometrical way- the way that you want your actual mosaic to be. And once you get that you make two copies of it and that’s your pattern. And once you have your pattern, you take that pattern and you begin to cut shapes. So what I did was- here’s the mosaic, here’s how it turned out. And I cut these circles for the cycle of the moon. You can see this is the new moon where it has no reflection, this is the half moon where half of it’s reflected. The three-quarter moon, the whole moon, and then it goes backwards. So these circles I cut and then I wanted this to be very reflective so I added this material behind it. "