300+ Mosaic Tips, Techniques, Templates and Trade Secrets [Paperback] by Fitz. [Paperback] Fitzgerald, Bonnie - Softcover

Fitzgerald, Bonnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570765561 ISBN 13: 9781570765568

Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books, 2012

Synopsis

With information gleaned from years of working for and studying with professional mosaic artists from around the world, this comprehensive guide provides essential information for creating beautiful mosaics that survive the elements and stand the test of time. Offering hundreds of valuable design and construction tips, diagrams, simple step-by-step directions, and photographs, the book explains how to create professional, stylish, and technically skilled mosaics. It contains clear instructions for the most commonly used mosaic methods, tips for avoiding potential pitfalls, and an easy-to-navigate technical guide with advice from master mosaicists on selecting the materials, tools, and techniques best suited to any mosaic project. Beginners, hobbyists, and professional artists alike will make the leap from mediocre to majestic mosaics with this understandable, uniquely organized reference.

About this title

About the Author

Bonnie Fitzgerald is the founder and owner of Maverick Mosaics Art School and Studio, an educational facility dedicated to nurturing expression through the art of mosaics. Her pieces have been juried into editions of the "Artful Home" and the "Guild Sourcebooks of Architectural and Residential Art," and her work and instruction have appeared on several episodes of Home and Garden Television's (HGTV) "Curb Appeal." She lives in Vienna, Virginia.

From Booklist

*Starred Review* Home in on the last two words of artist-maven Fitzgerald’s title: Trade Secrets. That’s exactly what you’ll get when using this colorful, filled-to-the-brim reference for creating mosaics. The author spares no thought, no idea, no piece of advice, and it is all very well organized in five chapters: Essential Preparation, All about Tesserae, Researching and Planning Your Design, Working Methods, and Practical Applications. Icons helpfully define the type of counsel she offers: try it for substitutions; fix it for solutions (e.g., use olive oil on your hands after handling grout and other cement-based materials); and a jargon buster defines unusual words like adamento (i.e., the way it flows). Fitzgerald is also very pragmatic: charts show, in a glance, the pros and cons of adhesives, substrates, and tesserae, with a one to three ranking from easy to difficult, cheap to expensive. Ten projects (although usually crammed into two-page layouts) demonstrate different techniques; for instance, a flower shows how to use the direct-working project method, and a swimming fish shows tessellation. --Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1570765561
• ISBN 13: 9781570765568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160