Wet or Dry Double Flip: Mosaic Technique Workshop with Solly - Sat 30th & Sun 31st August

Join Solly as he challenges students to work outside their comfort zones, using one of his two signature direct techniques and apparent disregard rules for traditional mosaics. Create an ungrouted glass-on-glass mosaic wall-hanging for indoor display. 

Course Description

I will demonstrate two direct methods that I have developed and explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. There will be no grinding or grouting.

You will use a poster as your target. How convincingly that you are to render that image realistically will depend on many factors, including how quickly you make decisions, how often you (or others!) bump you or the table, how much detail that you cannot ignore, whether to cut piece by piece as needed, or work from a pile (recommended), how often you start over, the size of the tesserae, how tightly you want them to fit, and the size of your mosaic. Most or all students will finish a stained glass on glass mosaic that is suitable for indoor wall-hanging.

Date: Sat 30th & Sun 31st August

Time: 10am - 5pm

Tutor: John Sollinger (Solly)

Level: All levels welcome

Materials: All materials included

Participants: Maximum 10

Venue: Olive Stack Gallery, Listowel, V31 HW30

Materials list

1. List for participants to bring to workshop, if you have these tools. *I have a few sets that are available to borrow, please contact Olive to arrange to borrow tools olive@olivestack.com

Double-wheeled glass cutters

Tweezers

Glass scorer and plyers

Phone Camera or Camera (pho camera is perfect) 

2. List of materials supplied:

Poster

substrate

Stained glass

PVA Adhesive

Please note: Your payment secures your place in the workshop and is therefore non-refundable. A minimum number of participants is required for workshops to go ahead. If this number is not met, the workshop will be cancelled and a full refund will be issued.

https://www.johnsollinger.com

Biography 

I was born and raised near Detroit, Michigan, studied forestry and genetics in college, worked for the BLM and Forest Service as a technician, and then taught biology at Southern Oregon University until my retirement several years ago. Recently, I retired from teaching mosaic workshops as well, expecting to make room for making more mosaics, travel and my family.

Paintings by Van Gogh, Renoir and Monet have and continue to inform and inspire me to create art with natural themes that carried over from my teaching. My works have received world-wide acclaim among mosaic circles and won awards in competitions for mosaics (e.g., Best in Show at MAI 2010) and all media (The Artist Magazine). I attribute my success to mosaicking according to my intuition and resources -- rather than following and then deviating from the styles and rules that were practiced centuries ago. I have had the honor to be invited to juror for CMA online and privilege to juror and judge at a BAMM exhibition at the London School of Mosaics.