Fancy a creative activity during your vacation on Karpathos? Go for a mosaic workshop at Art and Walk on Karpathos! Last vacation we participated in this workshop. Read more about our experience here. Want to book this workshop directly? Take a look at this page of Art and Walk.

People who know me know: I have no patience and don’t call myself creative haha! My mom thought it was hilarious that we were going to do a mosaic workshop ;). Still, Vincent and I were very excited when Renate and Thom invited us for this workshop. It was a very pleasant afternoon and the results were great. 100% repeatable!

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Mosaic workshop

Last year we had been hiking on Karpathos with Art&Walk. I find it so beautiful to see how Renate and Thom bring a group of strangers together. That was also the case this time. We were together with a couple from Switzerland, which made us a small but cozy group.

We started the workshop with an explanation by Renate and Thom of what was intended. Then we could work independently, but Renate and Thom both helped where necessary. First we had to think about what we wanted to make out of mosaic. They have plenty of examples, but you can also look up an idea yourself via Google. Vincent wanted to make our house out of mosaic. I ended up choosing Nemo and Dory from the movie Finding Nemo.

Getting started!

Then you can start drawing your design in outline with a pencil on your round, wooden board. Do you find this difficult? No problem, Renate will help you with the sketch. When you have the sketch you can start working with the colored tiles. You can use “old” broken tiles and if they are no longer available, you can break tiles yourself. With different tools you can then ‘cut’ the pieces of tile to give them a better shape. You can also add a little touch by adding other pebbles to your mosaic work. For example, I used a kind of round, convex stone as bubbles (see photo below). You stick the pieces of tile around your board with glue.

Once everything is glued, we need to check that we haven’t forgotten any pieces. Then the glue has to dry for a day. Then Renate and Thom will take care of filling the joints between the tiles. Starting the next day, you can pick up your work from the mosaic workshop. Our works of art got a nice spot in our house 🙂

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