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Mosaic Garden Art: How To
Today’s feature is from Fine Gardening with this extensive how-to: Making Mosaic Garden Art:
Mosaic Garden Art Projects By finegardening.com
Sturdy, well-built objects made of metal, wood, terra-cotta, or concrete work well as base objects for a mosaic. The decorative mosaic pieces will adhere to just about any surface except items made from flimsy plastics that bend and bow.Garage and estate sales, swap meets and flea markets, as well as thrift and secondhand stores are good places to find china for your mosaic design. Tile manufacturers often offer seconds at discounted prices, which are perfect for mosaic work.
I have featured mosaic projects here before but this article is a more extensive how-to showing you how to get started turning most random objects into a fine mosaic piece. There is a picture gallery featuring six different garden art pieces to inspire you and some of the items they’ve used are pretty creative: garden shovel blades, hand trowels, watering cans and more.
Instructions include: Basic tools & supplies needed for mosaic projects, prepping the objects, how to break china and tile into mosaic pieces, how to mix and apply the mortar, mixing and applying the grout and using a sealer.
Please visit the site above for all the details, this is quite the handy reference!
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