MOSAIC CLASSES – BASIC INFO … flexible scheduling allows the beginning student to start at any time. Use my email aprosano@gmail.com or Facebook private message or my phone 520-297-3606
Here is preliminary class info: If you have any questions after reading this, please contact me.
BEGINNING MOSAICS CLASS – (Flexible Schedule). Class is designed for and directed toward the unknowledgeable and inexperienced beginner. Student must be willing get hands dirty. Our workshop is just that … a workshop, not a classroom.
*** FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE HAD SOME PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE: I custom-design instructions to build onto your present level of mosaicking, so that you may explore and learn new mosaic madnesses.
Mosaics can be seen in the Ignite/Create video interview of Rosano at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZDWSavFzg or see my work at www.rosano.org, Toscana Gallery, or on my Facebook timeline. Also on Facebook timeline, one can see postings of student first-time mosaic efforts. The front cover of the recently-published MOSAICS WITH ROSANO features the first-time efforts of my students.
The cost of $350.00 includes twelve hours** (but if it goes a bit longer, no worry or added cost) in the studio with Aureleo Rosano, (five percent lecture, ninety-five percent hands-on. Instructions in basic, modern mosaic supplies and techniques. Familiarization and practice with Italian glass tiles, stained glass, glues, mastics, grouts, etc. At the end of the instruction, the student will have a small, completed mosaic, ready for disposal or ready for framing and eternal enjoyment. Payment schedule is also flexible.
Contact: Facebook private messaging, (that’s easy) or … email: aprosano@gmail.com (that’s easy, too) or, if all else fails, try my phone (if I can find it, I’ll answer it … 520-297-3606.
**Scheduling of the twelve hours of instruction (in minimum two-hour segments) can be very flexible and is to be arranged by student and instructor. At times, there are up to three students working at the same time, but usually only one or two. Mosaic Class (flexible scheduling): As instructor, trying to cover the many hours of a week, my idea is to be available at diverse times during the week. For example: 9:00AM – 1:00PM on a weekday (Tuesdays?) 2:00PM to 6:00PM also on a weekday (Thursdays?), and 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM on Saturdays or Sundays. My thinking is that a student could find at least two hours per week at one of those times (3 to 4-hour sessions seem the most comfortable and efficient). The student should always call ahead to verify that I would be available or if an alternate time was available. Times and days are not set in concrete.
FOR YOU OUT-OF-TOWN ADVENTURERS: The complete beginner’s class requires about two and one-half days (2 ea. 5 or 6-hours sessions and a final 2 or 3-hour session. Weekends are OK, too (often helps getting a better airfare. So … we’ll have to mutually agree on the times. As always, I try to remain flexible.
Located in the boondocks of Northwest Tucson (near Tangerine and LaCholla). Please understand my shop is a real workshop and not a polished classroom (work clothes should be worn).
You need only bring eye protection and something to drink if water won’t do. You can pay by cash or check or PAYPAL, VENMO or ZELLE and you don’t have to pay all at once … start with $100.00 if you prefer. Bring some ideas as to your first mosaic but be prepared to have it morph into something unexpected. Now … ask me some questions.
A question from a student … “So you had mentioned that reading glasses may be okay for eye protection…correct? I will bring my checks with me and glad that you can take partial payment. Do you have any recommendations of where to look to get ideas?”
Well, that’s three questions and that’s OK. Reading glasses are fine. Big ones can be bought at a Dollar store. Ideas? … Try not to design anything too complex for this first time. Here are some of the best ideas for your first small mosaic (it will be about 10 x 14 in) … a floral thing, a geometric theme, a space thingy, or just pure abstract. A detailed portrait of your pet Dalmatian is probably a no-go. Look at the mosaic section of my website … www.rosano.org … you’ll see different ideas … or look at some of my past mosaic postings on Facebook.
Now, to get an idea of what your first project might resemble … take a look (at the top of this page, left side)… at the front cover of MOSAICS WITH ROSANO. EACH OF THE MOSAIC IMAGES ON THIS BOOK COVER is from a different student and is their first mosaic attempted during my teaching influence. For most, it was a first time ever. In each case, as instructor, I pushed the student to cut different, sometimes difficult shapes from the glass using the scorer and also the nippers several ways, and work a bit more closely with glass placement (with smaller grout spaces) than they might have wished. My emphasis was on the mechanics and techniques of mosaic-making rather than art training, though the “artiness” was, of course, not ignored. Occasionally, a student might take my advice to heart a bit excessively and become too fussy with the fit of glass pieces. That’s when I’m there saying “It’s perfectly imperfect … glue it down, glue it down.”
