Bill Enslen

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Make Mosaics With Stained Glass Patterns

Looking for something new in your mosaic art? Here’s a fresh idea. Make mosaics using large stained-glass pieces as if making a stained-glass window, instead of using small pieces cut to the stale, standard shapes of squares, rectangles, and triangles. ... Read >

Mosaic Floor Tiling: Painting Baseboard after Laying Mosaic Floor Tile

After laying your beautiful mosaic floor tiling, you then install elegant-looking 5.25-inch-high baseboard. How do you paint the baseboard to get professional results without slopping paint all over your new mosaic floor tiling? The secret is, before in... Read >

How to Make Mosaics: Is Hardboard a Proper Foundation for Mosaics?

Hardboard makes a good foundation for your mosaics as long as you limit the size of the overall mosaic, limit the tesserae size, and don't display the mosaic in a wet environment. Avoid hardboard for outdoor applications because of the potential for dete... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: How to Break China and Crockery

Using broken pieces of crockery or china in mosaics is typically called "picasiette" or "pique assiette." The literal French translation is "sponger" or "scrounger." Therefore, the term pique assiette in mosaics means salvaging pieces of china or crocke... Read >

Mosaic Art Adds Elegance to Your Home or Office

Are you looking for that special piece to add the final touch of elegance to your home or office? Don't go the local frame or furniture store and thumb through a bunch of mundane prints. Don't go to the flea market and browse through $20 paintings that ... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Important Safety Tips

When making mosaics, your safety is of paramount importance. You must understand, observe, and apply common-sense safety practices when working with mosaics. It's just good common sense to apply safety practices when working with sharp glass, caustic gr... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: How to Store Your Stained Glass

If you work with stained glass, you know what I'm talking about. It seems like every room in the house and every table, dresser, bed, and desk has sheets of glass sitting on it collecting dust. Stained glass clutters every open space everywhere. One da... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Creating Mosaic Tables

How do you create lovely stained glass mosaic tables? Once you know these basic steps, your creativity can take over. If you want something truly unique in a mosaic table, forget the many common styles of round mosaic bistro tables on metal stands that ... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Stunning Mosaic Tables

Want something different for your home? Something truly unique? Maybe a stunning art masterpiece that everyone is irresistibly drawn to admire as soon as they walk through your door. Maybe you want something a bit more functional, such as a distinctive... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: How to Easily Fix Grout-line Imperfections

Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy! Let me show you how. Have you ever watched your mosaic grout seemingly shrink before your eyes as it hardens? Arrrrg! The grout lines are no longer flush with the tesserae and tiny pinholes mysteriousl... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: How to Make a Permanent Signature on Glass

Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy! Let me show you how. Ever wonder how to sign your indoor glass mosaic art so the signature won't rub or wear off? Nothing seems to stick permanently to glass. Permanent marker isn't permanent. Acrylic... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Do We Cut or Break Glass (Does it Matter)?

Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy! Let me show you how. Ever wonder what glass actually is? Do we cut it or break it (is there a difference)? Why and how does scoring a line allow us to control the way glass breaks? To fully understand... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Mixing Grout

Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy! Let me show you how. The amount of grout for your mosaic project depends on two basic variables: 1) the size of your piece, and 2) the width of your joints. Obviously, smaller joints require less grout.... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Andamento (Huh? What's That?)

Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy! Let me show you how. Andamento (Italian for "flow") is the visual movement of your mosaic created by placing tesserae in specific patterns to achieve the desired image (a.k.a. "coursing" your tesserae). ... Read >

Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Hanging Your Heavy Mosaic Masterpiece

Making wonderful glass mosaic tile art is easy! Let me show you how. You're so anxious to hang your first masterpiece that it seems like the frame store is taking forever finish the frame. Finally, they call to tell you it's ready for pickup. Wow, t... Read >