Mosaics with Rosano Full Book Cover

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CREATING ARTFUL MOSAICS

My mosaic book is available.   Mostly a “how-to” for mosaic beginners. There are quite a number of “extras” included, but the ‘How-To” part is a printed version of the basic mosaics class which I teach here in Tucson. 142 pages, at least 350 full color photos and over 1000 ideas to steal. Included are very detailed tutorials (one of which details the construction and mosaic application for table tops).  The price is $45.00 US (Autographed and mailed within the US). I’ve posted the Front Cover and the Table of Contents on  various Facebook pages:  

If you’re interested in having an AUTOGRAPHED copy sent as a gift to a friend or as a gift to yourself, please contact me. How can you do that?  Let me count the ways:

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Email: aprosano@gmail.com
2550 W. Moore Rd. Tucson, AZ 85755  USA

…or use the phone 520-906-8708

If  NO AUTOGRAPH is needed, the book can be purchased directly from the publisher … Lulu.com

MOSAICS WITH ROSANO is also listed with BARNES & NOBLE, and AMAZON

PHOTO LEFT: 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, never 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.”

Huge thanks to friend and advisor Chris Stamos – proof-reader, essay contributor, mosaic assistant, etc.

Photo montage credit: Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli

Big round of applause for Lonely Planet and Rick Steves’ photographer Dominic AZ Bonuccelli, the creative editor who walked this book through the swamps of publication.

Consider your life incomplete unless you have an autographed copy sent to you or your loved one during this historic moment in time.