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Mixed Media Mosaics Techniques & Projects Using Polymer Clay Tiles Beads & Other Embellishments [Paperback]

Laurie Mika
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Jun 7 2007
Imagine beautiful mosaic pieces with tiles that you easily create yourself!





Mixed-Media Mosaics offers a fresh, new approach to a traditional art form. By making your own tiles from polymer clay, you control the size, shape, color and even the texture, resulting in beautiful finished pieces that include tabletops, boxes, jewelry and shrines.





In addition to learning traditional tiling techniques such as working with grout and cutting glass tile, you'll also explore creative options for personalizing tiles:



  • Discover the magic of mica powders and the regal look they can give to mosaics

  • Learn quick and easy ways of adding paint to handcrafted and commercial tile

  • See how easy it is to create molds and cast your own relief tiles

  • Find ways to add personal meaning to your work with the addition of text tiles

  • Experiment with the addition of beads, jewelry and other embellishments by embedding them right into the tile!




Whether you'd like to complete a mosaic tabletop for your patio, a jewelry box as a special gift, or simply experiment with jewelry, you'll find the inspiration you seek in Mixed-Media Mosaics. Start creating your custom mosaic pieces today.

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Laurie Mika's work employs her unique handmade tiles with mosaics, beads and jewelry to create contemporary icons" (a blend of Byzantine art, Illuminated Manuscripts and Mexican folk art). Laurie was published in the premier issue of Expressions magazine and has had work published in Somerset Studio, Somerset Wedding 2, Haute Handbags and Somerset Gallery 5, as well as the books 400 Polymer Clay Designs (Lark, 2004), New Techniques for Wearable Art (Quarry, 2004) and JoAnn Locktov's Mosaic Art and Style: Designs for Living Environments (Quarry, 2005). Mika has also appeared on HGTV's Crafters Coast to Coast and the DIY network's Craft Lab, and has taught workshops at Artfest in Port Townsend, Washington, Art Unraveled in Phoenix, Arizona, and Art and Soul in Dallas. She will also be teaching at Art and Soul in Portland in 2006 and at Hacienda Mosaico in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, in 2007."

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5.0 out of 5 stars tons of ideas July 30 2008
Format:Paperback
This is a great book,for polmer clay artist.It is loaded with lots of ideas! ,with tons and tons of pictures.Very easy to follow and all the projects steps are well layed out so you really get a good idea how they are put together. This book gave me lots of ways to work with polymer clay.
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5.0 out of 5 stars This book deserves more than FIVE stars! Aug 16 2007
Format:Paperback
A friend "accidentally" showed me his book,not thinking that I would be totally hooked, and then very kindly lent it to me for a week until my very own copy arrived.
It is well written, the photos are clear and close enough to see what is demonstrated.
I have made a couple of mosaic tiles using the techniques in the book, and been quite happy with the results.
Last week, my niece and her daughter were over to "play with my toys", and the niece spotted the book, and practically inhaled the cover.
She ordered it herself the next day, and the niece and great-niece played with clay all afternoon and well into the evening, and THEN came back a few days later to get some more pointers. The great-niece is 10 years old, but I don't know who had more fun, the young girl or her mother. The kicker to this story is that after the first time they came over to my place, I got a phone call the next morning from the great-niece saying that her mother had "kidnapped" my book unwittingly.
I would highly recommend this wonderful book because of all the great techniques and photography. Even if you don't work with clay it is a wonderful book to just look at.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, Concise, Colourful Clay July 25 2007
By R. Eberhard - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
This is a wonderful book for people of all ages and backgrounds. Polymer artisits will have a lot of fun gaining inspiration or completing one of the many projects contained in this publication. Laurie starts out with a clear outline of how to make the tiles, both in Polymer and glass cutting, tools required etc. She broadens your scope by wonderful step by step instructions on how to add glamour - trying paints, micas, gilding, stamps,Image transfers, beads and so forth. Each project from Boxes and Tables throught to Pendants and Pins - each tackles a new technique and the excellent photos make it almost impossible to make a mistake. A small but rich gallery of her work which is a veritable explosion of colour complete this worthwhile addition to your library shelf.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful mosaic of techniques and photos - Gorgeous photos! Jun 25 2007
By A. Huff - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I was lucky enough to take a class with Laurie Mika not too long ago and she's just as generous in sharing her techniques and tips in her book as she was in class. She doesn't hold anything back and is truly giving of her art and herself in this book. Laurie walks you through the entire process with the photos and written descriptions but also provides several inspiration points and gallery pieces throughout the book that helped give me insight into her as an artist and provided my own inspiration and insight to what I wanted to create. I love this book and have been making tiles since I got it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVED THIS BOOK!-even though it wasn't about what I thought. Sep 22 2007
By Llynn A. Huntley - Published on Amazon.com
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I ordered this book, even though I am not a "mosaic" person. The projects on the cover just looked so intriging and the title lead me to think that this would be a book about incorporating lots of different objects into mosaics- I think it was the 'and other embellishments' part. Since I do collage and mixed media art, I though this might be a new field to explore.
The book does NOT teach you about incorporating objects into mosaics (although there are a few things other than tiles in some of the projects), but it does tell you how this artist makes mosaics using clay tiles she makes herself with rubber stamps. And she does such a wonderful job of teaching you how to do this,too, that I am already getting my supplies together to try this, although I am also not a (polymer)"clay" person! She includes lots of tips-usually things you wouldn't think about until you run into a problem, the photos are clear and stepped out for each project, and the projects themselves are beautiful.
The projects also are set up so that you can immediately see how you could change them or make something completely different, using the same techniques.
If you enjoy collage, mosaics, rubber stamps and/or polymer clay, this book could lead you in a new direction.
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