Invisible Temporary Substrate with Sharon Plummer
Friday, October 31, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Workshop: Hands-On
All Levels: Technical Development
Price: $200 (Includes $25 Materials Fee)
In this workshop, you will learn and practice a new indirect technique Sharon has developed when using tesserae too small to put on fiberglass mesh or when the ridges on Wediboard prevent very small tesserae from lying flat.
Are you frustrated when using tesserae that are so small that they fall through fiberglass mesh? This technique is ideal for that situation. You can use it for a smallish mosaic or for fabricating an element to be placed within a larger mosaic. This approach has been successful for a mosaic piece as large as 10″ x 10″.
Students will learn to create a mosaic on a simple, specialized, smooth surface and then move the whole mosaic, with an invisible backing, onto the final substrate.
NOTE: What this process does NOT involve:
- Face taping
- Using sticky contact paper, or similar
- Creating the mosaic face down.
Students will take home a mosaic approximately 4″ x 4″.
Tools for students to bring: Glass Nippers; Pointed-end tweezers.
Sharon Plummer has been a practicing mosaic artist for 25 years. She is originally self-taught, technically strengthened by many workshops and classes taught by regional, national, and international artists. Her work ranges from small jewelry to large-scale interior and exterior mosaics and current projects are two pro-bono large-scale exterior public mosaic murals and her own kitchen backsplash (utilizing this process).
She has been a devoted SAMA Volunteer and has served on the SAMA Board of Directors for two terms.
Sharon lives in Houston, TX, spending her retirement years in the best possible way — creating mosaic art and gardening!
