This video shows the design process for the mosaic Blue Jay by artist Joe Moorman, 10 x 10 inches, stained glass, adhesive, mortar, steel mesh.
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This mosaic was made by improvising over a pattern.
The temporary surface is clear contact paper with sticky side up.
After the mosaic design is laid out, Mosaic Mounting Tape is pressed to the face, and the mosaic is picked up and flipped over.
Additional changes can still be made now but only from the backside.
The backer used for this mosaic was a reinforced mortar stone.
This mosaic was mounted using Weldbond Adhesive because I didn’t trust the mortar with so many tiny pieces of glass.
Excess glue was used unintentionally, and so after 3 or 4 hours, the mounting tape was carefully peeled back from the edges.
The edges were dry enough, but the tiles in the middle were still sitting in wet glue. A damp rag was used to carefully pick up the excess glue by patting.
After the mosaic was cleaned up and allowed to harden for 12+ hours, it was grouted with black non-sanded grout.
I didn’t follow the pattern very closely for the sunflowers but improvised them loosely.
I spent as much time looking at various photographs of flying blue jays as I did looking at the model.
The model in the correct pose might not have the best coloring or patterning.
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