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Summary: Various materials can be used along with glass in glass mosaics. Learn what materials are good to use in glass mosaics in this free video lesson on mosaics.
Ruth Starr majored in art both in High School and at Northeastern University in Chicago. Her first professional art showing was in downtown Indianapolis while she was still attending...read more
"In this segment I'm going tell you about other materials that you can use along with your mosaic of glass. For example, I once lucked out and met a woman who was a beader and she gave me this big box of all kinds of beads and some different things. There just different beads. You just find different ways of using them and again all you have to do is put glue on them and stick them onto the wood or whatever you using and glue them in there. And it adds a lot of interest, I think, to the piece you're making. Here's another little box of beads of kinds and more beads. And they're just different things. Like here's some little bears if you can see them that might be interesting if you were doing a Southwest piece or something. Or a turquoise. It's nice to add really fine gem stones and stone onto the piece you're making. And you can go to gem shows and so on. And you could find all kinds of materials there that you might use depending on what your idea is. But that's a good place to go it would be to a gem and mineral show. "
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