Mosaic Backing

Video Transcript

"Okay so one of the ways you can use to select a piece of wood to begin with is have either have some wood at home you might use or else go to a local lumber store or wherever. And I usually use about three eighths inch plywood and I get a two by two piece and pick out, have it cut down so that I can use different sizes for different things. That's one of the ways. And my favorite is this three eighths inch plywood because its not terribly heavy yet its sturdy enough so that you can use it to put the glass on. There's a few ways to prep it. You can paint white on it if you want to with acrylic and so that, sometimes, some of the clear glass will show through and your good piece is pictures of the wood grain will come through. But if you paint it white of course you will have a white background. If I could go to the beach and get a neat piece of drift wood and glue pieces of glass on it in different ways. There's just all kinds of things you could use. Or you could use, take a stone, a stepping stone from outside for outside of the house or something and glue pieces onto that. That's another article you can use. Just as many things as you can think of. This is my preference because its easy to work with and it lends itself to putting a frame around it and so on. And so that's what I use. "