Lynn’s Mosaics

I did not plan to use green, but the idea to place the turtle on a blue “path” while looking at a green “path” came to mind.  Here is the base with all the  tesserae in position, but not yet affixed to the base.

The hardest part will be to attach the larger, outlying pink pieces and keep them in place so that they don’t slide down.

It seems if I get a few pieces onto the base, an idea for a complete design will fall into place.

One little turtle and an old blue and white plate is the beginning of this piece.  I want some pink in it as well.

NOTE:  With pieces this small I could NEVER transfer them from this base to an empty base as I mentioned in an earlier posting.  I will use tweezers and my fingers (very carefully) to pick up the pieces one by one and “butter” the backs of them with mortar.

You see my bare hand here while sweeping some broken chips out of the basin I am working on, but I will NOT be bare-handed when I actually get the chips out and discard them.  I keep protective gloves on when I am cutting tesserae and when I am getting them up to discard.

Thank you for visiting my new blog, Lynn’s Mosaics!

 I have just started a new birdbath.  The first thing I do is place the tiles (tesserae) in a pattern I like.  I try to always have two of whatever type of “basin” I will use.  One to put the pattern on and then one to actually move and permanently place the tiles on once I have the pattern figured out.

More to come.