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Mosaics - Spreading the Art!

By Anonymous


The Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains is
the venue for a special one-day Mosaic design and techniques
workshop being held by Nola Diamantopoulos of Mosaic Madness!

It is Nola’s unique transition in 1998 from the corporate world,
to become an artist that has been instrumental in developing the
style and substance of her teaching and her work - with the aim
to bring out the creativity that exists within each of us.

Nola is the president of The Mosaics Association Of Australia and
the founder of Mosaic Madness and Art for Strictly Beginners. She
operates as an artist, educator and teacher. Through the Mosaic
Madness school Nola offers several creative and technical courses
for the mosaicist, and the art school offers specialist courses
for the strictly beginner in painting and drawing.

This special one-day design and techniques mosaics workshop is
the perfect opportunity to build on your existing skill level in
mosaics, and to draw inspiration from an environment set in
tranquil surrounds – the home of the “Magic Pudding” that is the
Norman Lindsey Gallery. And, while you are pondering your
decision to attend, think about taking a longer break and making
a weekend of it in the mountains!

This workshop is about what makes designing in mosaics different
from other art forms and what tools are available to achieve
those results. You will explore the various tile laying systems
such as mesh backing, adhesive paper and waxed board method. You
will learn to design and work with vitreous glass, unglazed and
glazed ceramic tile, smalti and marble and the different affects
that these materials have on mosaic design. You will also be
taken through a slide history tour of mosaics.

You will learn to use tile cutters to create a variety of shapes
and how to design eyes and ovals and other difficult forms. You
will also create grout sample boards to see the impact of
different colour grout on your designs and finally do Andamento
sample boards which highlight the importance of your grout line
in creating designs.

You will do a colour wheel too! This is also a problem solving
opportunity so bring your mosaic headaches with you too! A great
way to exchange ideas, share your love of mosaics and recent
knowledge with other like-minded individuals.

The Finer Points
One day Mosaic Design and Techniques Workshop is on Sunday 25th
May at the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum, 12 Norman Lindsay
Crescent, Faulconbridge, running 10am to 5pm. Cost $225. Visit
http://www.mosaicmadness.com.au/Mosaics/courseindex.htm to
register or call 02 9818 7471.

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For media enquiries, contact Nola Diamantopoulos
Telephone: 02 9818-7471
Email: mailme@mosaicmadness.com.au
www.mosaicmadness.com.au

A variety of electronic images are available to go with this
release, please contact Nola directly.


Tile Mural Finds a Home In Historic Leesburg

By Anonymous


September 22, 2004 -- Three years ago, Larry Thaw visited an arts-related trade show in Orlando and something clicked. There he was introduced to a new heat and pressure process of transferring printed images to tiles. Larry thought, “This has great potential,“ and made the investment in the process.

His art-on-tile business has come a long way from that Orlando encounter. His first commission was transferring a print of a dog to a decorative tile. Today you’ll find him designing a tile mural for historic downtown Leesburg as part of the Leesburg Partnership, which is all about revitalizing the business, economic and social core of downtown.

Thaw first approached Joe Shipes, director of the Leesburg Partnership, over a year ago with the concept of creating a mural for the city. Shipes was interested and said, “A mural artist can charge up to $20,000 to $30,000 and more. We saw this approach as a cost effective way for the creation of the mural.” Shipes was also concerned about the topic matter for the mural and reflected, “There is a concern about public art as in what’s art to someone may not be to another. So we selected vintage Leesburg postcard scenes for the mural.”

The three postcards chosen for the project date back to the late 1800s and early 1900s -- a steamboat on the Ocklawaha River, a carriage ride in old Leesburg and an early glimpse of Leesburg’s Main Street. A total of 120, 12” x 12” tiles will be used in creating the mural. When it is completed sometime this September, it will measure 20’ wide and 6’ deep.

Residents and visitors to Leesburg will be able to view and enjoy the mural at its home on the newly constructed Restroom Project building located in historic downtown Leesburg on the corner of Third and Main. The building was designed to look like an old storefront from the late 1800s. The mural will be mounted on an exterior wall.

Thaw has done tile projects with other Florida cities such as St. Cloud and Lake Worth. In St. Cloud, he created tiles of vintage Osceola County scenes, mounted on wood and presented as awards. A similar concept was used in Lake Worth. Additionally, Thaw will be using tiles to create directional and informational signage for Leesburg.

The process of creating the art tiles consists of scanning a printed image to a reverse transfer. Then, using high heat and pressure, the transfer is applied to the chemically treated tile. The finish on the tile can be satin, matte, gloss, tumbled stone, marble, porcelain and glass.

Thaw brings over 20 years of art and graphic design and printing expertise to his company, 2wo Cool Cats Studios. He has worked as an offset printer, an art director for magazines and trade publications, and as a publisher for magazines. Thaw’s business is conveniently located in downtown Mount Dora at 777 North Donnelly Street.


About glass tile looks at Mosaics.

By Anonymous


August 16, 2004 -- Aboutglasstile’s new issue profiles American mosaic artist Linda Fahey and French glass tile manufacturer Opiocolor. This is the first in a series of distinct, theme based “issues” of the site, as Aboutglasstile.com takes on the look and feel of an online magazine.

The web has changed the way people shop for specialty products like glass tiles, but will never replace the dealer’s showroom, according to Aboutglasstile’s concept designer, John Dumbrille: “People still need to see and feel these products in person. But starting out cold in a showroom is unnecessarily limiting, not to mention frustrating, as each store offers only a small subset of what’s out there. Today it makes sense to begin selection by window shopping on the web, and then working down to the appropriate distributor.”

But the web is mostly suited to directed searches, not window shopping: web data is inherently atomized, and searches are never comprehensive. “No matter what search tool you use, a search for glass tiles is returned with an incomplete list of corporate sites. We’ve grown used to flipping through the top 10 or 20 results, but this partial list of information ‘silos’ isn’t what the computer user is typically looking for.”

Operating since May 2004, and now offering a syndicated RSS feed, Aboutglasstile is bringing together comprehensive information about glass tiles, including showrooms, tile samples, installation details, marketplace listings and forums. “We want to show people what’s out there,” says Dumbrille. “If we can effectively showcase the range of original glass tile, it should be a matter of quickly linking to the appropriate dealer to find out more.”

http://www.aboutglasstile.com