{"id":3597,"date":"2014-07-03T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T23:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2025-05-23T14:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:43:09","slug":"always-fun-when-students-get-hooked-on-mosaics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/always-fun-when-students-get-hooked-on-mosaics","title":{"rendered":"Always Fun When Students Get Hooked on Mosaics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">I&#8217;ve given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/mosaic-classes\" target=\"_blank\">classes<\/a> to a lot of students over the years and I&#8217;ve always enjoyed having a chance to help people create their first Pique Assiette mosaics. Some people come to the first class with a project that they&#8217;ve been hoping to do for years and bring dishes they&#8217;ve saved just for that purpose. Others\u00a0just want to try it out and we find dishes and perhaps a table to mosaic at the \u201cShopping Class\u201d. And I always know that making mosaics won&#8217;t always click for everyone the same way it did for me. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3599\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-dragonfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3599\" title=\"Murray Goode's Dragonfly Tray\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-dragonfly.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Goode's Dragonfly Tray\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-dragonfly.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-dragonfly-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-dragonfly-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Goode&#8217;s Dragonfly Tray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">It&#8217;s always a bonus when some of my students keep in touch and send me emails with mosaic projects that they&#8217;ve done since those first classes. It&#8217;s so much fun to know that I&#8217;ve played a little part in getting someone else \u201chooked\u201d on making mosaics.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3602\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3602\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-coffee-table1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3602\" title=\"Murray Goode's Mosaic coffee table\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-coffee-table1.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Goode's Mosaic coffee table\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-coffee-table1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-coffee-table1-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-coffee-table1-500x280.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Goode&#8217;s Mosaic coffee table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Murray Goode is one of those people who just clicked with mosaics. I sensed that he was delighted with the medium right away and I enjoyed getting a few emails later with more of his projects. Murray was still working as a school teacher when I first met him, but now he&#8217;s retired and finally has really got the time to indulge in this art form.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3600\" style=\"width: 574px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3600 size-full\" title=\"Murray Goode's Blue Willow Table\" src=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-table.jpg\" alt=\"Murray Goode's Blue Willow Table\" width=\"574\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-table.jpg 574w, https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Murray-Goode-table-243x300.jpg 243w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Murray Goode&#8217;s Blue Willow Table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">We were in touch just recently and I discovered that not only is he still making mosaics, but is exhibiting and has his own <a href=\"https:\/\/murraysmosaics.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> too! He has a few pieces being shown at Cabin 12 Restaurant here in Victoria. I&#8217;ve picked just a few pieces today to post, but encourage anyone to go to his website to see the work of someone who is really enjoying himself making mosaics. I know I&#8217;ll be following his website from now on, just to see what new mosaics he&#8217;s created. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ve given classes to a lot of students over the years and I&#8217;ve always enjoyed having a chance to help people create their first Pique Assiette mosaics. Some people come to the first class with a project that they&#8217;ve been hoping to do for years and bring dishes they&#8217;ve saved just for that purpose. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/always-fun-when-students-get-hooked-on-mosaics\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[898,3],"tags":[894,370],"class_list":["post-3597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mosaic-students","category-mosaics","tag-murray-goode-mosaics","tag-pique-assiette-mosaics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7024,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summerhouseart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}