My name is Susan Ting I'm a potter with Zenclay Galleries Studio and Cafe. On behalf of Expert Village and I welcome you here and this time I'm going to show you how to make a tile...

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Designing your mosaic can be one of the most fun, or one of the most challenging parts of the process. One thing to consider when you're a beginner mosaic artist, is to have really basic...
Okay, now this is a good consistency for the grout. You can see that it's pretty thick and now we're ready. Now you want to wear rubber gloves when you do this work because the grout...
It has been teasing me. Since I've been doing it. After a while all other art techniques I was using got less important. And mosaic art became my form of expression. And then one thing led to...
Here we are looking at the Orpheus mosaic. It's set almost, in my view, rather like a doormat, and it is, indeed, just inside the main entrance to the villa. Immediately behind us we have the...
So, here's one I recognise, I think this is Medusa, and isn't the myth that anyone who looked at her was turned to stone? - Is that right? - That's right. And isn't it...
I'm a mosaic artist. I make mosaics for walls and floors, mostly in natural stone like marble, just like the Romans. I find it amazing to think that this tradition stretches back nearly two...
So in this mosaic we've got the image of the learned man that you often see in paintings and mosaics around villas in Italy. We might see this as advertising the kind of leisure that was going...
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This mosaic, of Neptune and the four seasons, comes from La Chebba in Tunisia. The figures are drawn from classical mythology. In the roundel at the centre is Neptune, god of the waters, riding on a...