Golden Peacock Mosaic Project: Part 3 - Cutting & Shaping Crockery Tues 23 June 2020

okay friends and in this video I'm going to show you how I cut these gorgeous teardrop shapes for my golden peacock mosaic background what I'm using are old plates these ones are by Churchill or Myatt depending on which company and it's called Finlandia now the reason why I've used this particular plate is because I've got a stack of them as well as the fact is there's quite a lot of white in the background and it's quite a dark area in the staircase I'm also going to be using some delightful blue Nordic as well which is like that kind of oniony shape that it's very famous for which it's quite delightful I've got some very old ones but these ones are reject and old as well so before you freak out that I'm using gorgeous antique would cost a lot of money if I sold them it ain't so there's tons of these around in Britain I know some of you guys in Australia in America struggle to find things like this but you can find them on eBay you never know you might find yourself a bargain and thrift shops op shops as they're called in Australia caryl boot sales all sorts of places would have this kind of blue and white crockery there seems to be abundance of blue and white so without further ado here we go so with these plates what I tend to do is cut up a shape and then use it as my template so what I do is I draw a round shape and I don't just do one I actually go right round it I use a very thin heading 55 very thin nipped pen so that you can get an accurate drawing done in the area that you want okay so that's the first stage I draw and here's one I've done earlier so that's that's the drawing all the way around clearly because it's a hand drawn and hand cut shape it won't fit exactly identically so you can see here there's a gap but that's alright because these gaps are also essential because when it comes to in filling on the wall you might want a little piece like that so you know that would show well that we cut up in in a particular space so in filling is important so what I used to do was score out the shapes with my glut toyou blast cutter glass scorer but sometimes these these plates don't go to how you want them to cut now every plate is different ladies and gentlemen some are thicker than some others some are porcelain and fine bone china and they would cut in a different way so it's always a case of experimenting so even when I do my first cut I don't necessarily know where it's going to go it might go through a drawing you know but because I've only drawn these they can be wiped off and redrawn so there's a lot of wriggle room and flexibility in my work which kind of you know when you see the finished products they look a bit you know as I am as I meant to be and it's drawn out and cut up exactly perfectly but there's a lot of wriggle room so with my mantra lit 55 I'll obviously share the link below you know I only use a handful of tools you know like three or four tools anyway so what I like about these is that it has a beautiful flexible spring-like action so if you've got arthritis for example it's easier to cut it's better than the leper knits that I've got that don't have mechanism in the center they're a very nice way of biting and this is titanium so these are really strong as well okay so I'll definitely put a link in below and probably a film linked by Monta lit on how they use these the advantage of using these is spectacular and has changed my life as a mosaic artist there you go so what I do is I would place the nipper in deeply into the plate and give it a squeeze now I like this when films you know when I make a film it works out perfectly how lucky am I so then I just go about cutting each section approximately okay so I'm going roughly in the direction of the drawing line okay and then I'll cut along there and you could you could trim and cut all the way through with this Montilla tool there would be nothing wrong in doing that and some people that are used to using a wheel nipper would be able to do that but for me I'm still in love with my bog standard standard style side biter okay and what I use is the back CI the curved side I call the front and that's the top and this is what I call the back and I always use the back so I'm kind of going backwards when I'm working so let's see if I can get this for you so can you see I'm just literally using the corner edge of that side biter I cannot focus that so it's right at the top bit there that corner edge and I'm just I'm not touching the tile is not touching the front of the side biter is only using that slight angle the corner okay and it because it's a carbide tipped tool it's got a strong bite to it by doing this you're not wasting a lot of of the plate a lot of the crockery which is a good thing don't like waste so that's the basic lick shape and what I do is just use the top of the side biter just graze that glaze as I say in my workshops it doesn't need a lot of grazing so that's the shape and I'll be going about cutting up all of these shapes because there's a lot of shapes to cut for the workshop now I just wanted to show you that back in the day I used to use the side both biters only to cut my crockery now just to say that in terms of cutting with this it is very difficult to cut it's a very strong piece of crockery and you'd have to really squeeze it to cut it really squeeze it but these Montell it's all you'd have to do is squeeze it and it's quicker and it's easier and you're not straining your hands and us mosaic artists do tend to have a lot of RSI to our name so a lot of repetitive strain injury because there's a lot of cutting going on and a lot of blisters and that's why I wear my glass gloves you see and I'll put them on the old list below the description box below so this is what I'm going to be getting on with for the rest of the day on this gorgeous sunny day in June okay speak to you soon bye you thought I'd show you what I've done so far with the staircase project so here's my little girl and peacock which as you know I installed last week and here that I blued on today so I've had three layers upwards and then a couple of layers downwards and I might keep that downward shape that direction for the rest of it the brilliant thing is that you can choose and decide what you need to do as you're working so instead of using Tyler fiberglass mesh on this wall I thought I'd install in situ which is a bit of a short small angle because it's a this area is only about war but 80 80 centimetres wide 85 centimeters wide so not even a meter so yeah good job I do yoga so the plan is I'm going to work on this area right up to the top and I've given myself some guidelines so I know which direction it should roughly and approximately go and I've even said to myself that maybe there's a little bit of a teardrop shape that goes into that corner clearly and then the plan is to continue on to the outside of the peacock but I've also got a thought that maybe I'll add some more nother eyes with this lovely shell shape which is a ready-made shell shape that I got it online tile shop on ebay so and it's white and it's good and it's delightful because it would help me to decide whether I'm going to add some more and maybe have some gold plumes but yeah it's it's working progress so that's what I like about doing mosaics like this and just to show you once again what glue I'm using it's my room our flexi fix so it's all ready to go and I've got some lovely faceted glass which I'm going to add in between some of the gaps and as you know this is a wall mosaic and here's a ceiling mosaic and all of this I've been creating during lockdown so this ceiling I started on the 31st of March 1st of April officially 1st of April I installed it on the 4th and 5th of May and then around the 1st of June I started working on the wall but this the main area I worked on mesh and then cut it up into pieces but you can see those videos on this YouTube channel so I'm in me garden and this is my garden give you a little bit of panoramic miss Gore giuse that's me apron be must drawing a little demonstration you on what I'm cutting you so I'd give you a little sneak peek on what I'm doing and how I'm doing it so let's just pan back a little bit I can get hold of this [Applause]

Channel: Mango Mosaics

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Length: 18min 51sec (1131 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 23 2020