Modern Mosaic Art: Make Floral Compositions with Tiles
Creating the Background
A course by Briony Machin , Designer and Mosaic Artist
About the video: Creating the Background
Overview
“It's time to complete the mosaic by filling in the background with one solid colour or a gradient of colours. You can choose the solution you prefer! ”
In this video lesson Briony Machin addresses the topic: Creating the Background, which is part of the Domestika online course: Modern Mosaic Art: Make Floral Compositions with Tiles. Learn the meditative process of mosaic-making and give broken pieces of stone, glass, or ceramics new life by transforming them into inspiring patterns.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Creating the Background In this lesson, I'll show you how to fill the background. I'll use the crazy paving technique but it's up to you how to do your background. You might want to add in a sun or do a gradient of different colours from dark to light, but as I've got quite a lot of detail in the flowers, I'm going to keep my background simple. I will go for one solid colour tile and do that to fill the rest of the board. Crazy paving is a good way to fill any space. It means cutting lots of tiles up into random shapes and then putting them together, again, a bit like a jigsaw, so... I wi...”
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Course summary for: Modern Mosaic Art: Make Floral Compositions with Tiles
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Ceramics, DIY, Furniture Design & Making, Interior Decoration
Briony Machin
A course by Briony Machin
Briony Machin is a Lancashire-based artist specializing in ceramics, mosaic, and illustration, with over 100K followers on social media. After graduating in design crafts, she worked part-time for a gallery where she held her first workshop. Two years later, they had become so popular that she was able to quit her job. The sale of her DIY mosaic kits during the pandemic was eventually what allowed her to open her dream studio in August 2020, where she sells handmade products as well as teaching workshops.
With her experimental pieces, often featuring flowers and inspiring messages, Briony’s aim is to bring a little hope and joy to the world. She has collaborated with brands on Instagram such as Topps Tiles and Elizabeth Scarlett, and her digital illustrations have been printed on a range of homeware items including wrapping paper and aprons. She also runs an outreach program to integrate the art of mosaic into local schools and the wider community.
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