There was a time not so very long ago when teaching yourself mosaics wasn’t this easy. Lawrence Payne of Roman Mosaic Workshops, for example, is the go-to man for all things Roman, traditional and hammer and hardie related and is ready and waiting on YouTube, day or night, to teach me all I need to know: Lawrence Payne of Roman Mosaic Workshops on Youtube. And, thankfully for me, help is at hand – teaching yourself mosaics has never been easier thanks to short online videos offering mosaic tips and advice.
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However, I have recently taken the bold and exciting move of signing up for a three day master class with Dagmar Freidrich to be held in Edinburgh at the end of August and I need to learn how to use a hammer and hardie fast. It’s a bit of a brute to look at and I can’t fling it in the back of the car, but it’s handy none the less and has allowed me to slip into bad habits – for years.
It’s not that I haven’t been shown how to use a hammer and hardie and it’s not that I don’t have one, I do, but it is gathering dust in the corner of my workspace and I rely on this gorgeous beast – a purpose made stone cutter – in its stead: Stone cutter. Some of my mosaic books for those teach-yourself moments. It’s not something I am proud of but I need to get it out there if I am going to discuss the topic of online mosaic courses. To be a full time, full-on maker of mosaics inspired by the ancients, to be a mosaicist who uses stone and not to know how to use a hammer and hardie is, quite frankly, a disgrace. Dear me, what was that? You falling off your chair? I dont blame you.
There is no point in pussy-footing around so I may as well just spit it out: I don’t know how to use a hammer and hardie. Online mosaic tips: free My sorely neglected hammer and hardie.