Mosaic Sea Creatures Before and After

It's never easy to get a picture of these sparkly grouts, but here are the before and after pictures. I wasn't happy with all the warm gray grout so I painted the sun grout with yellow glitter and the sea with sparkly turquoise glitter. One picture was taken outside and one inside so that alone makes it difficult to get a good comparison.

I used the technique Ellen Blakeley taught in her tempered glass class. You mix acrylic gel medium with Pearl Ex pigments and then paint in onto unsealed grout. Let it sit for a minute and then wipe it off the glass. You never know how it will turn out but that's the fun of it all. I will try to get a better picture of the mosaic after the painting is done. It really does brighten it up.

Frolicking Sea Creatures

I'm not sure if I've made dolphins or whales. Maybe a combination of the two. That's called artistic license! Or more like I'm not that good at depicting a particular item.

Another trick I learned when doing mosaics is that if you squint at the piece, it will come into focus much more and you can see what it might look like later. And even better, take a picture of it. The last picture I took definitely looks more like sea creatures.

And Prancer is keeping me company. That is the boys' favorite perch during the night when the raccoons are out in the garden, turning over dirt and rocks looking for snails.