Whoops. Don't know what this site did with my
title, but it is all messed up. Wingdings, anyone?

LOL

I hope someone can help with this...I would love to know how to do it, have just the project I would like that effect on.

For the life of me I cannot picture what your speaking of...when you find a picture or get yours done, I definitely want to see what it looks like!!

Are you thinking like this?

Was the glass possibly fused?

If the bean pot has the effect you want, I think that is the push method. That's where you spread a layer of premixed adhesive/grout (Lowe's carries the Mapei brand) over your substrate and then "push" the tesserae into the grout.

I have done a few of these as gifts. I don't have pics (I only just started taking pictures for you girls, lol!), but I am currently working on a watering can (okay, so I'm about a year behind the rest of you!) using this method. I plan to post pics when I'm done, but if you can wait until Friday, I can post a WIP pic. (I left the can at my Friday AM mosaic/coffee/chocolate cake girls club, but I will bring it home then.)

a Friday AM mosaic coffee chocolate cake girls club...wow

Yeah, how do we get one of those?????????

Maria

Good evening all,

I'm sorry I ran out last night, had to head
for bed, then work today. Could not wait to
get home to see what you all have come up with.

Yes, thank you so much for the link suggestion.
That is very similar, but maybe just a tad neater.
Well, 'neater' may not be the word I'm looking for,
just a bit more uniform?

I have a stack of mosaic books on the table next
to my bed that I look through each night, but wouldn't
you know I can't find the exact image I'm looking for.

Now I ask. Where are the leftovers from that Friday
Mosaic Chocolate Cake event? ;-)

Karen Marie

Wuvie, I think the bean pot is a very neat, in the sense of "not messy," example of push method. My examples would be messier. (Hey, grouting IS messy!) Anyway, I will try to get over to our art school studio before Friday to snap a few pics.

FYI, this has been a WIP since probably Halloween. A group of my lady friends (as my teenagers call them) who enjoy mosaicking get together once a week to work on our separate projects together. We mosaic, chat, drink coffee, chat, eat cake, chat, mosaic some more, and then go out to lunch covered in glue globs and grout.

Oh, usually, no leftovers. You can eat a lot of cake while waiting for your grout to set up ...

hmmmmm.... let me just say - I'm burning with envy over the coffee/cake/mosiac group thing

but this process does open up some interesting ideas for me too. Like in that show clip question of how the lady was pregrouting with several colors.... it would allow you to lay colors like frosting without the muddying effect

ohhh I'm getting intrigued

wuvie, funny you should bring this up, since I've been thinking about this particular type of project for a couple weeks now. I found the "enamel-looking" tiles at Wit's End, and the "plan" was to create that very look. My personal plan involved glitter glue, as I've seen the gold/silver outlines often, and liked that.
The trouble I was really having was the enamel- that "swirly-but-not-swirly" look that cloisonne' has...the closest thing I could think of was nail polish (hence my recent post about using it to paint tiles. I subsequently settled on the 'solid' glossy-finish ceramic micro-mosaic tiles at W.E.)
Still working out the project plan.

Aha, I found it!

Page 27 of "The Mosaic Book" Ideas, Projects
and Techniques by Peggy Vance and Celia Goodrick-Clarke.

The vase is sitting on the table, and it does mention
the excess amount of grout used for the cloisonne effect.
I am anxious to do this with Rub-N-Buff, but will have
to figure out what I want to use as tesserae.

Still looking for that chocolate cake. ;-)