Wow are you a busy bee. You do great work!. You make me want to get motivated! I make me mad. Lots of ideas and don't do them. Hmmm shame on me. Thanks for inspiring me.......
thanks for all the positive comments. Here are some replies to various comments: the indian tiles were bought in India… Grout - indoors is standard powdered grout, coloured with paint; outdoors i use BAL grey, or cement with cement dye added Flat Bases - indoors, i use old kitchen units/furniture which has the plasticy coating on, cut to size. outdoors, i use hardibacker cement board Design - i have an approx idea of what i want to do, but in reality, the work progresses by placing textures and shapes and colours alongside each other. I tend to glue as i go along. I am very much stimulated by the materials that I acquire. Tools - Lepponite wheel cutters for glass (and my old set I use for bone china), grozing pliers & glass cutters; and traditional ceramic tile cutters Hope this helps
thanks, I use so many different adhesives that it would be difficult to show in this film, which was actually made for a project to showcase my work at the time (a few years ago) so not really intented to be a tutorial…. there are many of those on TH-cam…
Amazing and inspiring. Your home is out of this world. You take recycling to a whole other level. I see you use anything and everything for your projects.
she might have got inspiration from Nek chand of india who make Rock garden in chandigarh in india using recycled materials decades ago (30 years ago) . i used the word might- so trollers plz don’t jump on trolling !
i have never been to the Rock Garden, but it is on my wish list. His grandaughter did a talk last year about it which was really interesting. I've been inspired by many different artists around the world!
can you please do a video on how to cut up the pieces of plates to get different shaprs. what kind of glue do you use. you make cutting the plates look easy. I think your work is gorgeous. please write back to me
Lady, you are a rock star of the mosaic world. I am so inspired by your work, you are so creative. I have shared this with my fiancé, as we are both logical, technical people yet with a strong artistic streak and looking to sell our homes and buy a new one together. We don't care for all new and shiny, we want character. I enjoy upcycling and this is deifnitely one way of achieving that. Thank you!
These are wonderful, creative and so inspirational. I was just thinking about ideas for a patch of mosaic in my kitchen and am so pleased I found this. Full of ideas and raring to get started now!
I'm blown away............Love you home, surroundings.....Totally AWESOME....so talented........I'm inspired............Your are TRULY an ARTIST.............
i use a powdered ceramic tile adhesive (thin set in US) which mixes up to peanut butter consistency. this allows you to fill the space below curved objects to make fit
Hi Katy , when i cut my china plate with wheel nipper i get jagged edges. how can i get smooth edges and what wheel nipper cutter do you recommend? thanks
Your stuff is simply amazing. I have been collecting pottery for years and now I'm ready to go with all my materials! thank you. Love the chicken by the way.
Wow, I'd really like to see you do a video of a project from idea to finished project. I'm especially interested in your design work that involves shaping the tile so neatly - esp evident in the bathroom library. Nice work.
Oh wow!! This is amazing, your work is spectacular Katy! Have you been doing mosaic art for long? Wonderful pieces :) I just made my first tiny piece last night, so much satisfaction (still have to grout). What adhesive do you recommend and is it advisable to remove extra that squishes out from under the piece just stuck on? Thanks! Love your work :)
yes, advisable to remove excess adhesive. I use ceramic tile adhesive which i buy in powdered form, and allows me to work with curvy pieces and tesserae of different heights.
Fantastic!! - what a visual treat! I wish I had the room to store all of the materials. Could you tell me the name of the two tools you were using on on your video? Thanks for posting!
Loved the video. Your mosaic's are so unique and edgy. This is exactly the style I've been looking for!! My husband and I are both eclectic and this very much would compliment that very much. I can hardly wait to get started. I have more than 5,000 beads including pearl, precious and semi precious stones, lapis lazule, jade, brownstone, blackstone, cherry quartz, rainbow fluorite and some sterling silver beads and charms. I'm going to use those kind of things along with broken china plates, teapots and cups. I'm even going to cut a cup in half vertically and put that on the backsplash. Something just to be different. Can't wait to start! Thanks for the great video~~ So many ideas.
Wow you have amazing talent and a great video as well. I tried my first mosaic today. it was ugly and the pieces were too big. please tell me, what tools are you using? tile nippers and a glass cutter?
tile cutters, leponite wheels and glass scorers and cutters are my main tools - my first mosaics were also quite clunky, but 15 years later, i now work in minutiae
Oh..I am at home depot right now and I'm going to pick up some wheeled glass cutters. Thank you for your response. Your videos are very helpful! Still got to work on my tile cutting skills..
question?What is the most durable glue for doing a countertop?also should I seal it with something when it is finished ?Your mosaics are so amazing ..you are a very skilled artist !The one who dies with the most pottery wins !!!LOL I am much the same way with vintage fabric lace and buttons as I am a textile artist!I think I want to try mosaics !Thanks for the inspiration!!
I'm just starting with mosaics and already my basement is starting to look like your bothy and greenhouse. At times I feel like a border. Will I ever have time to use it all?
Thank's I just got a huge house and I'm trying to figure out the best way to decorate it, it is an 8 bed room 10 bath room, plus a pool house and guest house/ Caseda, Spanish Colonial Revival house and I need plenty of idea's and this helped a lot, I love your work, it is very up lifting and that is what I want the house to feel like up lifting, bright and cheery Thank's
Thanks for the insperation. I now live in Mexico ( from the united states origanally) and find tiles thrown out in the fields and am getting quite a collection. I have no idea what I am going to make yet.
Katy,blessed good night to you. Your work is absolutely beautiful. That's a lot of skill you have there. Please keep up the good work. Stay blessed n inspired.
Incredibly beautiful work katy...can you please tell me what you use as a base (like the rooster e.g.) I alreadyhave some existing concrete / plastic garden statue...in poor shape and wondering if I can renew them. I love the books in the kitchen and the library bathroom!
katy thank you so much for taking the time to show us your work. I am so motivated to get started! I almost feel like dragging all the kitchen dishes to the yard ! I really loved the garden flat kitchen. and the library is so awesome !! Thank you so much !
Wish, you could show us some step by step "how to cut shapes" mosaics using the scorer etc. I tried cutting glass, but fail every time. so I just use my nippers instead which is such a shame, as I have so many ideas. But ta for showing us your beautiful mosaics.
Katy...just got some stuff together to start having a go at mosaics and came across your film. Beautiful, colourful heartwarming stuff, definitely made me want to persevere so thank you. Also, loved the music but can't this track anywhere...which album?? :-) x
WOW! Just about to start my garden art (mosaic's) your video is SO inspiring.I wish you would walk me through the equipment i need for a beginner. Fantastic. Best video I've watched for inspiration
tile cutters & leponitte wheels are the best two for cutting, and then glass scorers and grozing pliers if you really get into using glass. The important thing is to make sure you are using the right adhesives and the right boards for what you are doing, espically if your mosaics are going outside - and if you are in a cold area with severe winters, stick to glass and bone china and cement based products. Hope that helps
sensational ... talk about imagination meets mastery!! elegant workmanship ... I am a newbie and want to know do you have any hints as to how you get the grout smooth when you are working with uneven objects? In other words if I use my finger between two objects of different projectile like lets say a button and a piece of mirror, the grout wants to be concave or convex, and I want it to be sloping or flat to look more refined??? are there any tools, I have tried pottery and sculpting tools to no avail, which is hampering my creativity because I want it to look refund, not lumpy. Thanx
+BarbaraL Lowell i would grout from the lower item to the top. With experience you will learn to pace yourself with height items, choosing those that don't have such a difference in height. Early pieces of mine, which had all manner of height issues were a nightmare to grout. Also do your grouting in different stages, put in on, let cure a bit, clean up the tops of the tiles (avoiding the grout lines), cure a bit more, then a polish off, where the grout should be set comfortably within the lines. Brushing off with a soft brush is a final finish which gives a good professional look at the end
Beautifullll artwork! But may i ask, im sorry if this question is a silly one, what did u use to break the plates for the yellow flower?? 😅 thank you in advance
you are awesome. Just the thought you put into your work is amazing!! You make it look so easy
Love your stuff! Also thanks for the background music. I had never heard their music before. They have a new fan too!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful creations!
Katy: FANTASTIC!
Wow are you a busy bee. You do great work!. You make me want to get motivated! I make me mad. Lots of ideas and don't do them. Hmmm shame on me. Thanks for inspiring me.......
hope you are managing to make your ideas into mosaic art now!
Wow! Absolutely stunning what you have created! ❤️❤️❤️
Oh i see how u do it. Cool
love the song.what's the name.
+gigolohunt it is Falling Angels by Tracing Arcs - they gave me permission to use it!
For the piece featured at 7:03, what is the material that is so sparkly? Is that the foil you showed earlier?
it is a sweet wrapper collage with tempered glass on top (broken car window)
nice
thanks for all the positive comments. Here are some replies to various comments:
the indian tiles were bought in India…
Grout - indoors is standard powdered grout, coloured with paint; outdoors i use BAL grey, or cement with cement dye added
Flat Bases - indoors, i use old kitchen units/furniture which has the plasticy coating on, cut to size. outdoors, i use hardibacker cement board
Design - i have an approx idea of what i want to do, but in reality, the work progresses by placing textures and shapes and colours alongside each other. I tend to glue as i go along. I am very much stimulated by the materials that I acquire.
Tools - Lepponite wheel cutters for glass (and my old set I use for bone china), grozing pliers & glass cutters; and traditional ceramic tile cutters
Hope this helps
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Lovely. I wish you’d shown us how you actually attach the materials to the base, and how you grout the finished work.
thanks, I use so many different adhesives that it would be difficult to show in this film, which was actually made for a project to showcase my work at the time (a few years ago) so not really intented to be a tutorial…. there are many of those on TH-cam…
There are plenty of videos out there. You can even watch the process. Just type in how to grout ceramic mosaics.
Amazing and inspiring. Your home is out of this world. You take recycling to a whole other level. I see you use anything and everything for your projects.
she might have got inspiration from Nek chand of india who make Rock garden in chandigarh in india using recycled materials decades ago (30 years ago) . i used the word might- so trollers plz don’t jump on trolling !
i have never been to the Rock Garden, but it is on my wish list. His grandaughter did a talk last year about it which was really interesting. I've been inspired by many different artists around the world!
I love, love your kitchen...more, more!
can you please do a video on how to cut up the pieces of plates to get different shaprs. what kind of glue do you use. you make cutting the plates look easy. I think your work is gorgeous. please write back to me
*NEW SUBSCRIBER* I love this video , you put in alot into this video, I can tell so Im giving you a BIG THUMBS UP. WONDERFUL JOB. HAVE A BLESSED DAY.
thank you so much for the kind comments
Wow brilliant work, lots of imagination from what i call a proper artist, thank you for some great idea's
thank you so much for your kind comments
Lady, you are a rock star of the mosaic world. I am so inspired by your work, you are so creative. I have shared this with my fiancé, as we are both logical, technical people yet with a strong artistic streak and looking to sell our homes and buy a new one together. We don't care for all new and shiny, we want character. I enjoy upcycling and this is deifnitely one way of achieving that. Thank you!
thanks, Hope you make your dream home
WOW, your art work is pretty freaking amazing. BRILLIANT and super creative!
OMG! I am speachless Absolutely fantastic, beautiful, artistic expertize! Bless you and your talent !
thank you
Inspiring and gorgeous! I wish I was an artist…
These are wonderful, creative and so inspirational. I was just thinking about ideas for a patch of mosaic in my kitchen and am so pleased I found this. Full of ideas and raring to get started now!
thank you Dinah
Que hermosa es toda la casa, mas que un palacio o castillo😍
Beautiful work. Just came across your channel, and now I'm inspired. Thank you.
thank you, hope you get hooked on mosaics!
I'm blown away............Love you home, surroundings.....Totally AWESOME....so talented........I'm inspired............Your are TRULY an ARTIST.............
I'm curious how do you use cups in mosaics? They're not flat. You are really talented. I adore your artwork.
i use a powdered ceramic tile adhesive (thin set in US) which mixes up to peanut butter consistency. this allows you to fill the space below curved objects to make fit
Hi Katy , when i cut my china plate with wheel nipper i get jagged edges. how can i get smooth edges and what wheel nipper cutter do you recommend? thanks
i use tile nippers to trip off any unwanted edges, and file down any pointy bits (health and safety!)
lovely to see your home & studio! We have the same need to fill our greenhouses with tiles and crocks!!
Don’t you have to glue your pieces before grouting!! Which glue and grout you using??
i use cement based adhesives and grout - i am UK based so brands are slightly different to the US
OMG! I could look at your work all day long! Thank you for sharing!
You are truly amazing. Thanks for sharing your beautiful creations. I love them all. Admiring you for all your hard work and dedication.
I love your art! amazing
Your stuff is simply amazing. I have been collecting pottery for years and now I'm ready to go with all my materials! thank you. Love the chicken by the way.
Fantastic work, Katy - thank you for posting.
Amazing! Love your work ... from an aspiring mosaic maker.
thank you
Amazing.. loved them all.
esta súper hermosa tu cocina
All so beautiful just amazing got my interest I’m going to look for a starter kit
Thank you.
Wow, I'd really like to see you do a video of a project from idea to finished project. I'm especially interested in your design work that involves shaping the tile so neatly - esp evident in the bathroom library. Nice work.
You took the words out of my mouth!!!
I am inspired . Fantastic art works with recycled materials .. , You are a great artist....
By
im stumned, its awesome..
like AWESOME!!!
thank you
love it.....love the library
What an artist! Very beautiful! Amazing! Thank you!
thank you for such kind comments
Oh wow!! This is amazing, your work is spectacular Katy! Have you been doing mosaic art for long? Wonderful pieces :) I just made my first tiny piece last night, so much satisfaction (still have to grout). What adhesive do you recommend and is it advisable to remove extra that squishes out from under the piece just stuck on? Thanks! Love your work :)
yes, advisable to remove excess adhesive. I use ceramic tile adhesive which i buy in powdered form, and allows me to work with curvy pieces and tesserae of different heights.
Fantastic!! - what a visual treat! I wish I had the room to store all of the materials. Could you tell me the name of the two tools you were using on on your video?
Thanks for posting!
they are ceramic tile cutters (can buy in diy stores) and Leponitt cutters, usually found in glass supply or mosaic suppliers
Thanks.
Katy absolutely loved this video but I see you haven't posted anything since 3 years !!! Please return to TH-cam sooon 😍
Thank you… i am not so great at the technology to do long videos!
Same here but keep doing what you do 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 wish you all the best 👍💯
Loved the video. Your mosaic's are so unique and edgy. This is exactly the style I've been looking for!! My husband and I are both eclectic and this very much would compliment that very much. I can hardly wait to get started. I have more than 5,000 beads including pearl, precious and semi precious stones, lapis lazule, jade, brownstone, blackstone, cherry quartz, rainbow fluorite and some sterling silver beads and charms. I'm going to use those kind of things along with broken china plates, teapots and cups. I'm even going to cut a cup in half vertically and put that on the backsplash. Something just to be different. Can't wait to start! Thanks for the great video~~ So many ideas.
Grand Rapids, MI has a notable public art show. ArtPrize. $200,000 grand prize...wonderful work, sexy song
That's so freaking amazing
Wow you have amazing talent and a great video as well. I tried my first mosaic today. it was ugly and the pieces were too big. please tell me, what tools are you using? tile nippers and a glass cutter?
tile cutters, leponite wheels and glass scorers and cutters are my main tools - my first mosaics were also quite clunky, but 15 years later, i now work in minutiae
Oh..I am at home depot right now and I'm going to pick up some wheeled glass cutters. Thank you for your response. Your videos are very helpful! Still got to work on my tile cutting skills..
question?What is the most durable glue for doing a countertop?also should I seal it with something when it is finished ?Your mosaics are so amazing ..you are a very skilled artist !The one who dies with the most pottery wins !!!LOL I am much the same way with vintage fabric lace and buttons as I am a textile artist!I think I want to try mosaics !Thanks for the inspiration!!
I'm just starting with mosaics and already my basement is starting to look like your bothy and greenhouse. At times I feel like a border. Will I ever have time to use it all?
Thank's I just got a huge house and I'm trying to figure out the best way to decorate it, it is an 8 bed room 10 bath room, plus a pool house and guest house/ Caseda, Spanish Colonial Revival house and I need plenty of idea's and this helped a lot, I love your work, it is very up lifting and that is what I want the house to feel like up lifting, bright and cheery Thank's
thank you so much for your comments. Happy day for me!!!
very nice collection
WOW...ON A WHOLEE NOTHER LEVEL!! KUDOS SEÑORITA ❣
thanks
Thanks I have some students interested in taking up mosaics as a recycling challenge. I appreciate the quick reply and inspiration your video offered.
glad you appreciated it!
So beautiful
Thanks for the insperation. I now live in Mexico ( from the united states origanally) and find tiles thrown out in the fields and am getting quite a collection. I have no idea what I am going to make yet.
this is badass!! You are incredibly talented!
Weird music.
Outstanding! Your are the Mosaic Queen
thank you!
Katy,blessed good night to you. Your work is absolutely beautiful. That's a lot of skill you have there. Please keep up the good work. Stay blessed n inspired.
LOVE IT ALL!!!!!!
Please tell me what this music is. I LOVE IT! And I love your work.
very nice indeed
Best mosaics on you tube. Watching this has inspired me to start using the materials I've collected so far & haven't got round to using. Great work!
Great job!
your art is absolutely lovely. the warped flowers are phantastic :)
Thanks for sharing Katy ,your kitchen looks great..I noticed the ginger cat mosaic on your wall..looks like my mog Dylan:)
Incredibly beautiful work katy...can you please tell me what you use as a base (like the rooster e.g.) I alreadyhave some existing concrete / plastic garden statue...in poor shape and wondering if I can renew them. I love the books in the kitchen and the library bathroom!
Great stuff!
Такую красоту на выставках нужно показывать👍. Тот это можно назвать современным искусством 🌸♥️⭐
Fabulous!
Amazing!! The way you very nimbly cut those small pieces. I am completely new to mosaics, but boy, am I going to try some projects. Thanks!!
Thank you, that was lovely. I can only boast of ever having done one mosaic and it was a cat but I am proud of it!! It is a wonderful hobby.
Your work is incredible! You should have happy music on here to match this work. Obviously a labor of love:)
katy thank you so much for taking the time to show us your work. I am so motivated to get started! I almost feel like dragging all the kitchen dishes to the yard ! I really loved the garden flat kitchen. and the library is so awesome !! Thank you so much !
Awe and inspiring! Thank you.
thank you
Wish, you could show us some step by step "how to cut shapes" mosaics using the scorer etc. I tried cutting glass, but fail every time. so I just use my nippers instead which is such a shame, as I have so many ideas. But ta for showing us your beautiful mosaics.
Katy...just got some stuff together to start having a go at mosaics and came across your film. Beautiful, colourful heartwarming stuff, definitely made me want to persevere so thank you. Also, loved the music but can't this track anywhere...which album?? :-) x
thank you for your lovely comments. The music is Tracing Arcs, no idea which album, myspace.com/tracingarcs - but i did get their permission to use
hermoso todo!!! pero le pondria otra musica al video !!! jejejej...
I thought i was obsessed! So...do you do the mosaic & then place on wall? Interesting!💖💕
YOU HAVE BLOWN MY MIND!!!!!!!!
LOVE your vid, epecially your kitchen!!
Love, LOVE your work - so talented, thanks for sharing :)
Inspirational ~ and Beautiful ~ Thank You !
I love the flowers you make. The daisy types especially. How do you cut those? Can you show us?
what's with the gay and dark music
really? i thought it was suitable for what i was presenting, and I had permission from the artists...
Awesomeness
Your work is stunning, and your house is amazing with all of the mosaic!
WOW! Just about to start my garden art (mosaic's) your video is SO inspiring.I wish you would walk me through the equipment i need for a beginner. Fantastic. Best video I've watched for inspiration
tile cutters & leponitte wheels are the best two for cutting, and then glass scorers and grozing pliers if you really get into using glass. The important thing is to make sure you are using the right adhesives and the right boards for what you are doing, espically if your mosaics are going outside - and if you are in a cold area with severe winters, stick to glass and bone china and cement based products. Hope that helps
Awesome video! But can you show a tutorial on how you used the wrappers? Looked like some were used. Very cool!
sensational ... talk about imagination meets mastery!! elegant workmanship ... I am a newbie and want to know do you have any hints as to how you get the grout smooth when you are working with uneven objects? In other words if I use my finger between two objects of different projectile like lets say a button and a piece of mirror, the grout wants to be concave or convex, and I want it to be sloping or flat to look more refined??? are there any tools, I have tried pottery and sculpting tools to no avail, which is hampering my creativity because I want it to look refund, not lumpy. Thanx
+BarbaraL Lowell i would grout from the lower item to the top. With experience you will learn to pace yourself with height items, choosing those that don't have such a difference in height. Early pieces of mine, which had all manner of height issues were a nightmare to grout. Also do your grouting in different stages, put in on, let cure a bit, clean up the tops of the tiles (avoiding the grout lines), cure a bit more, then a polish off, where the grout should be set comfortably within the lines. Brushing off with a soft brush is a final finish which gives a good professional look at the end
trying this instead! Am interested to learn what you use for the bases of the garden sculptures
Did you make the sea urchin in the ocean mosaic part it looks so cool
That was my sister-in-law who is a ceramicist
@@KatyGalbraith Happy New Year ! I’m absolutely in love with how beautiful all of it is thank you ❤️
Great work! You are very talent :-) and the best thing is that you use recycled materials
we looks brother and sister because we like the same thing in msaics
Beautifullll artwork! But may i ask, im sorry if this question is a silly one, what did u use to break the plates for the yellow flower?? 😅 thank you in advance
i used lepponite wheels and tile cutters for cutting all the plates
OMG amazing... fabulous just just beautiful