How to upcycle broken pottery into a mosaic
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
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What to do with all those seconds? Sure, you can give them away, but what about the ones that REALLY didn't turn out. I hate to throw them away to today I am experimenting with how to make art from my mistakes!
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I appreciate so much that you always wear a respirator when it's appropriate and even took the time to set up your camera for that one second shot of you opening the window for better ventilation. It drives me up the wall to constantly see makers and even professional tradespeople never wearing PPE because they have to have their face out on UA-cam 100% of the time, like we don't already know what they look like. Please wear eye protection next time when you're using those tile cutters, though! Gotta keep those eyes safe too ❤
Edited to add: ok I just got to the part where you recommended eye protection, thank you, and I'm glad your face was ok!!! 😂
Yess I sometimes bend the safety rules but I really try to model the best practices when being filmed. I don't do it 100% 😅 but I will keep trying to be better. Thanks for the encouragement!
Remember a few years ago, when a bunch of places (maybe just in the US) opened where you could smash a bunch of things in a controlled environment? I think a pottery studio could 100% diversify by adding a smash studio into their space, and then a mosaic class after a night of smashing.
hahah genius!
I STILL want to do that!
You can also vary the size of the pieces- so the vase has one size of pieces, the background has smaller size pieces which makes the vase pop. The yellow looks like abstract flowers.
It came out great, though not as dark grout as I expected. Another project could be a garden table top design maybe. Use the yellows and reds for flowers maybe.
I wasn't sure if the curved ceramic pieces would work but it's actually kind of lovely how it catches the light differently
Thank you! I feel the same way! Next time I might cut them even smaller so they will be flatter. Anyway...
I’ve made flower pots in past and the problem with flat tiles was that they looked kinda sharp so how about making something bendy with the curvy pieces? Maybe some hand made terracotta piece & instead of glazing it topping it with mosaic?
Also a friend of mine in Australia makes stunning pieces covering old bowling bowls with mosaic!
Very cool project. It turned out well! Every potter has the need to find things to do with the unsellable items. We can only put so many things in our gardens!
So true! 😅
You can sell packages of broken pottery so others can make their own mosaic
A tip: use thick sections of old newspaper when breaking up glazed pieces. Otherwise you will get glassy splinters lodged in your hand towels. Those splinters can remain in the fibers long after machine washing or even transfer to other washed items. We potters need to take care of our hands, and not get them sliced open when wiping them on a towel! Sadder but wiser for me.
Been thinking of mosaics with those extra ceramic pots for some time. I like that you jump into projects nonchalantly. I get overwhelmed just by the planning and all those troubles I might find to which I have no answer and I end up procrastinating eternally. Imagine doing this in the scale of Gaudí's work. 🙀
omg yes! I hate planning and you learn so much from just jumping in!
You did an amazing job, really 👀, makes me want to try! I think it would be lovely if you did something with that yellow. Maybe yellow tulips, or lots of bees.
omg I love the tulip idea. My favorite flower :) thank you!
I really thought you were going to make another big piece for your studio, like your sign.
The blues & browns lend themselves to being a beach scene. Imagine making wave lines with tiles instead of drawing them 🌊
I really enjoy your videos, despite not being able to do any pottery 😅
love your art work. think a mosaic lamp would be amazing
OH now that is a great idea!
An abstract floral design could be lovely, or an ocean scene. You could even use shells and those half sphere glass pieces to add more variety to an ocean scene.
Wonderful idea. I've seen a guy online do something like that, I think he was based in Belgrad. I've been obsessed with the idea ever since!
I thought of a video request for you! Could you make a video about sculpting with clay and adding sculpted 3d elements to the pottery? From something like relief or bas-relief to a full 3d objects like flowers or the frog you made on your garden tea set. There aren't any educational videos as far as I can find on this topic but i feel like there are so much important technical details in both sculpting and attaching that for a complete beginner potter like me seem very intimidating haha. Would be so awesome to learn🥰
This is beautiful,❤🌺You can make a tray for your tea cups, or a small round table top for your break time in your shop. Small round pieces for walls, eye catcher. 🧿
GIRL YOU DONT EVEN KNOW HOW LONG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIIDEO. Another thing about being married to a potter is that you get in big trouble when you break things that weren’t even seconds!!! I can’t believe you were only thinking of making one piece!!! Hahaha. I have soo many ideas!! I’d love to see the table the vase is sitting on be a mosaic table. Lol
i was'nt sure about the whole idea, however you proved me wrong, its a nice design, a pot made from pots, perfect for a potter. x
thank you! I think I surprised myself too :)
Heeey, fellow Potter here! You can also use chards as grog, I know it’s tricky to smash them to the almost powder form, and it’s needed a specific machine, but it is very helpful to reduce waste and create very different clay to work :)
It cane out so beautifully! And works so well in that spot! Love it
I love how it turned out. With all the beautiful blue and green glazes you use, I would think that a beach scene would be gorgeous. You could use the yellow and red for sailboat sails.
How about some cool mosaic stepping stones or fun pathways for your garden! That could use up a lot of your stash, too.
The stars and background colours are giving Picasso starry night (but maybe with very large pixels) vibes. Looks great!
Also someone suggested a garden table, that's a great idea! Even multiple stepping stones, for the garden. That would be tedious though.
That worked so well. I’ve thought of doing this many times so I smiled when I saw this video. A garden table top next ? Some spring flowers from your garden as inspiration?
My family made a giant lizard (gecko) on the back of our fire place. Was such a cool family project!
I love how it looks! Really cool!
Loved your art piece! Maybe, in the future, you should do a table top made of tile!! I think it would look really nice ✨
I love it ❤
Maybe you could cut the pieces and put them onto a paper template without the cement.. then when it’s done, you can cement onto the board and transfer the pieces.. that way you’re not rushed by the drying cement?
Oh girl! You killed it!!❤❤
Wow I love it 😍 You are so good thinking up such great ideas and yes I have such a lot of failed pots! 👏
I think it turned out to be a beautiful piece 💜
I would love to see you do more of these Mosaic creations - I will suggest maybe doing a dry fit for the tiles first
A serving tray would be very cool!
Thank you for this wonderful idea! ❤
so cooooool, Mia. Amazing project, you did great
Grouting must have been satisfying. It was neat to watch it pop.
I love it!!!! Well done!
I love your pot mosaic pot! The stars are great
For irregular mosaic inspo, look up the nyc subway stations. They've got gorgeous mosaics in the older stations and some of the newer stations have whimsical new pieces like the 1/9 on 28th st has mosaic hats at different heights representing different famous NYC residents. As for what other things to make, how about a table top or a tray?
Beautiful ! I love it ! A small table top for your next project 👍 I think that it could work 😉 !
I think it would have been really cool to see what it would look like if the grout in the vase section was lighter than the background. I love this project I would love to see more stuff like it.
Thank you! That's a great idea to have a different color grout!
Oh love it! Looking forward to after work so I can watch it 😊
🥰 I love this project! 😯 And the glass in the doors on either side of where you hung this project is really cool too 😄
blue and white shards on the pot would have been interesting. a checkerboard on the table would be interesting too. Just my idea.
Looks amazing. More please!
thank you!
I thought you had changed your mind & made yellow flowers sticking out of the vase instead of stars. It works either way. I think you should make something with multi coloured fireworks or a map
Hey there Mia how are ya!? Love this video, splendid idea for the folks that don't know what to do with their old pottery. I've done quite a few mosaic pieces but stopped when covid hit. I'll show you some of my mosaics!
I would make juwelerie from it 😁 I love reuse thinks. Great outcome. Tip chip the peaces in a box (put on the side) so the peaces stay in there and not every where
Ceci n'est pas un pot.
Love it!
So cool!
Love it! Look great! Now I know what to do with my broken ceramics❤😊
Yess! It was fun and not that hard after all :)
Super idea, to make a mosaic out of smashed pottery 👍🙏 a pot, out of pots, why not 🤔😊
Could you try to recreate Stary Night with shards? ⭐👀
that would be so amazing! Great idea :)
So funny... I was at my kids' school recently and they had this concrete seat which was dazzled with mosaic tile. I had this, "holy moly I can make concrete everythings with all my shit from the 'drainage' box lol". I have so many shit pieces with the most beautiful glazes on it hahaha.
Scaling down (or up) is fairly easy if you draw a grid on your original design. Draw a smaller (or larger) second grid in the desired size on something else and copy the original to size. If that makes any sense 🤔
I like how it turned out. Next one perhaps a landscape, or one of your favourite paintings?
Thank you! I might do Starry Night next since I have the perfect color palette 😄
So cool.
You should do a huge mosaic on the floor, outside! ♥♥
Love it!❤ Maybe a table top in the future.
Yes I was thinking of making one for my garden, but I will need to make them really small because and curve is not good for a surface.
a pot covert in pot sharts!
Now I really need a pottery-smashing ASMR channel.
haha glad you enjoyed!
It would be nice if you did 2 others like the vase in your first project. Just vary them a little and they could be a set...???
Cool and inspiring! Did the cement dry out quickly while doing it?
Luckily not! I only ended up mixing it up twice, and placing the tiles took me probably 2 hours.
Could you plan the placing of the "tiles" ahead of cement mixing?
So cool. I have a little collection of dud ceramics that I'm going to to make into a mosaic, someday.
haha yeah this was the accumulation of 2 years, but it's nice to have a lot of different colors to choose from.
You have enough shards to do an entire wall. You totally SHOULD do an entire wall.
a frog!!! i love frogs!!!!
“Is it too meta?” 😂
😱eye protection?!?
yes don't do what I did! Wear eye protection!
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Mugs. And a Mug, that you fall in love with. 💘
hehe yes I can't seem to get rid of them :)
I‘m fascinated how German you live :D
haha well I'll have lived here a decade in October :)
@@PotterytothePeople i was born here but my flat doesn’t German as much as yours. The old school tiles look really cool in a potters home! ❤️
How about a mosaic table top for your garden.
ahh! you are reading my mind! I was thinking about doing that but the pieces are so curved, I'd have to cut them very small. I might be too lazy for that idk haha
@@PotterytothePeopleNext evolution…..pour epoxy resin over the finished mosaic to make it flat! Or put the finished tabletop in a frame and then put some tempered glass over it to make it flat.
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It's very nice 👌 👍🩷❤️💚💙🩵
Please wear safety glasses