Shoot, just found your channel Have always loved stained glass and mosaics as a child, will be watching all of your videos with vigor

I'm thrilled to have just found your channel and am looking forward to learning a bit. I'd love to try my hand at this one day. Regards form Australia

I wish you the best 👍🏼

Sorry mate, but I strongly disagree. Design might not be Art at all. There are several criteria that define Art. First, Art is original and unpremeditated; it’s the result of experimentation. Second, Art has no purpose other than being Art. Lastly, a masterpiece is part of an artistic project that transcends the artist himself. For example, the artistic project of cubism is to incorporate multiple perspectives of an object into a two-dimensional image, adding the dimension of speed. It’s like seeing something while standing on a speeding train. What remains on the canvas is a fragmented memory of different details from different angles, which together manage to define the whole subject. That is an artistic project. So, what artistic project guides your design process? If the aim is to reproduce the spirit of Roman mosaics, that's copying, not Art. If it's a floor or a pot, it has a functional purpose, so it isn’t Art. Even a decorative or ornamental mural isn’t necessarily Art. A visual, or something that is visually pleasing, is not enough to define Art, because some Art can be utterly ugly or shocking, like Caravaggio's works. But don’t get me wrong, crafts are just as respectable as Art. They require skill, knowledge, and sensitivity. They can be brilliant even if they aren’t Art. There’s no need to be linked to Art. Craftsmanship has its own nobility.

Nice! Do you have the longer version video of this process?

This is brilliant advice. I always struggle with this question. I like the thought of doubling your time estimate. Thanks for this!

Tesserae cutting requires hours of podcasts

This is great information! Thank you

It will be very helpful, I live in Italy and I started to do mosaic and here in not very much book of the andamneti and all what you have draw there very well .

Great, why aren't the kits available anymore?

Very interesting, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

what are you using for a base of the hardie? In my class in Italy they used a tree trunk but I can't find one here. What are alternatives?

subtlety and nuances are the accents. big rocks are the obvious

this video is super helpful!

DEEP

"Promo sm"

I wouldn't say it's not a mosaic at all, but it's probably fair to put it into a different category of mosaic. The degree of difficulty involved in creating the image from such tiny tesserae certainly differentiates it from a low-level geometric pattern, but there are wonderful (I'll use this word) 'proper' Roman mosaics of figures and creatures, made using ordinary tesserae, which would certainly require the skill of an artist to create such complex designs.

I just finished making my first mosaic and love the craft. I have been basically using a hammer to break up my tiles into tesserae and hoping I can get enough sizes and shapes from the regular hammer. When I saw this on another channel, I screamed, "EUREKA!" Unfortunately, a hardie and chisel set on Amazon is close to $250. USD. My husband said he can make me a set from scrap in the barn at the farm! YAY! I assume you use the tesserae you make without smoothing the edges?

Hello Thank you for this informative video. I see you’re based in the UK, I’m a student on the diploma course at the London School of Mosaic. Have you visited the school by any chance ?

see the story hear the music. the tessarae becomes the rhythm and pattern

during rome period the great ones did it directly in their head. like alla prima artist today

Hi how would you grout a mosaic with riven cut? Would you use the indirect method with paper?

Yeah, the kids teach us a valuable lessons. You don’t have to be good, you just have to do it. Good will come.

This was great Lawrence. I needed a bit more information on my shape cutting and this hit the hammer on the hardie! 😉

Thank you for the Carole Raddato shout-out. Flickr page saved! The wax tablet makes total sense! I did not see that. A scholar/scribe/reader.

What a useful thing to do to look at what we normally overlook. Very interesting and helpful. Thank you.

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thanks for explanation...

Hey, good idea. I think I’ll do this.

What’s the soundtrack?

Beautiful love the head and mane is this perspective or emphasising musculature? and the shadow underneath the horse I think it is a stallion? Lovely to see thank you Lawrence 😊

Thank you Lawrence for your advice,bringing this not so obvious observation to our attention,this is very helpful.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 THANK YOU !!!!!

Excellent

Mosaic ❤️

hi, what 7 rules?

Thank you!

Thank you Lawrence...this is very helpful.

Keep the good ideas going!!! This content desperately needs 'promo sm'!!

This almost looks like a little book I used to have where are you filled in the dots with lines like that. What a good teaching tool for you. Do you make your own? Dot pattern?

Thank you for indirectly helping me with my assignment!

Thank you Lawrence for the inspiration you led me to do the looped end Solomon’s knot as well as the double side by side, now Im on the Solomon’s knot with the interwoven square outside, similar to looped end, I need more!

شكرا جزيلا على هذا التوضيح.. انت فنان حقا كنت ارى ان هذا صعب

Very helpful thank you

🥇 unglaublich 🙏 danke dafür 👍

Thanks Lawrence that was extremely helpful.

Thanks