Q3. Is there anything special about the tesserae?

Mosaic No.	Artist	Country	Response
4, 30, 245, 246	Jan Abbotts	Aust	Nothing really special – just a bit of a hodge podge of stained glass and vitreous tiles. Whatever took my fancy and also the colours that I thought would look the best.
12,13	Janelle & Kirra & Jay Csurhes	Aust	All laid with loved and care
19, 101, 106, 123, 176, 180, 181	Donna Coogan & Family	USA	We used vitreous glass, stained glass and some ceramic pieces. The buttons used for some of the eyes were from a jar of buttons my mother had saved over the course of 40 years.
24, 175, 207	Liz, Matt & Alannah Greenham	Aust	No, we chose ceramic tiles for durability.
25, 26	Carolyn Crawford	USA	No.
27,28	Veronica Schubert	Aust	I used glass tiles, which had various shadings throughout, which made it easier for me to choose and play with the shadings on the flamingos, and also some additional stained glass for the other colours.
29	Valerie Fuqua	USA	The toucan’s eyeball is a fused gem made by Beth Norton of Tacoma, WA
34	Nancy Neubauer	USA	Nothing special, vitreous glass and stained glass.
78	Hilde Hader	Canada	No, I used mainly tile, some pottery.
87, 88	Karen & Laura Apolloni	USA	No – porcelain.
167	Jan Stiffler	USA	No.
179	Christine Brallier	USA	I used Stained Glass.
183, 184	Linda L Phillabaum	USA	No just Vitreous glass and stained glass for the Puffin. YES! I didn’t have tesserae and couldn’t find the right pink. I actually went on a site called ‘freecycle’ (a site that encourages recycles, so everything is free) and put a post out asking anyone if they had scrap glass. I was surprised to actually receive a reply! A man in Indiana, Joe Carter, replied that he had some clear and textured glass. We made arrangements to meet at a parking lot to pick up the glass. As he was opening the back of his car to get the glass he said “Oh, by the way I found more glass than the clear, there is some colored glass and some pink.” Wow, I was delighted. He told me the glass came from Kokomo Opalescent Glass, in Indiana. I didn’t know what that was. Well now I sure do! I visited the factory and went on the tour taking photos as we went. I was mentally drooling the whole time! Needless to say, I’m glad we brought our van…I bought pounds of glass. Good thing the hubby was along!
193, 209	Dianne Schnarr	New Zealand	I was originally going to use glass tiles and broken crockery thinking my crocodillo should be green but when I started looking at pictures of crocodiles I realized Cinca – an unglazed ceramic tile, would be a better choice. I think the tile I chose looks like a crocodile’s skin. The colour of a Cinca tile goes through the whole piece and I find it to be a material that can almost be sculpted. The fish has been made from glazed ceramic tile and glass “baubles” are part of my stash of neat things I like to use in mosaic.
199	Christine McKenzie	New Zealand	Yes, the eye gems were created in Auckland, New Zealand. The tiles were from a renovation, and I love recycling things for another use.
166, 202	Carolyn and Anna Talarr	USA	Carolyn - Many of them are hand-colored—finding the shading for the incredibly subtle coloration of the face of a particular “shadow cat” is not easy. Anna – No.
206	Liz Brazelton	USA	It is Trend Vetro tiles – I placed a few extra in the box.
210, 211	Caroline Kovacs	Aust	My earthy/green tiles were given to me by my Father-in-law. And well he’s special! He is currently getting treatment for bowel cancer and he’s doing extremely well.
212, 215	June Johnstone	Aust	No I just had a lot of fun sourcing the glass and making the right choice of colour.
213	Sandy Ozols	Aust	Is there anything special about the tesserae. It’s the first time I have used vitreous glass tesserae & have just learnt about the indirect method in Brisbane with Sandy Robertson in courses. The range of colors is amazing, a new dimension instead of renovating with wall & floor tiles.
233	Denny Nkemontoh	USA	Nothing special – stained glass and vitreous tile.
235	Michelle Curow (aka Dotty Marzipan)	Canada	Not really anything special. I used two different pieces of stained glass, simply picking out the shades in glass I needed most. That’s the beauty of stained glass. One piece of glass can give you several different shades of colour to play with.
239	Deborah Boyd	USA	A friend of mines father had a glass shop they had to close due to a road coming thru. They gave me some of the most beautiful glass. In her fathers honor I had to make sure to use some of the glass. They have been so supportive of me and my art. I used some antique pieces of glass they gave me.
240, 241, 242, 243, 244	Lynne Mosiman	USA	No.
247, 248	Tracey Holland (mrsdutchy)	Aust	No, it’s just tile
250	Wendy Clayton-Langley	USA	Just the gold for some sparkle.
249, 251	Maria Kokkoris	Aust	No.
257	Katie Stecher (Princess Papoola) and Family	USA	No.
	Berta Sergeant	USA	Yes, this mirror I have used is also in a mosaic mural in Montpellier, France. I submitted a piece to the great mural, “Shards Concert, Matter of Dreams”, designed by the late Jean Destrade. So this mirror is getting allot of mileage!
	Carol Shelkin	USA	Yes, this was my second mosaic and my first on mesh, so I needed help. Kathy, from Maryland Mosaics contributed some tiles for this project as well as a cutting tool. I now know they are called Leps.
??	Maureen Randolph	Aust	Not really.
??	Kate Randolph	Aust	Not really.
282, 283	Margaret Johnson	Aust	Love the colours.
?	Alison Hepburn	England	I used some of my precious store of coloured golds and I slumped some dichroic and stained glass specially for the butterfly.
214	Jane Denison	Aust	It’s a mix of glaze ceramic tiles and roti from Italy.
260, 262	Lucy Albertson (Sabrina’s Party)	Aust	Tesseraes are all different. They can be blue, pink, green or black. They can be circular or square. Even big or small. Each tesserae has it’s own beauty.
190	Marion Shapiro	Aust	Bullseye fusible glass.
77	Helen Smith	Aust	I used mirror turquoise patterned glass for the birds crown.
154	Angela Kingshott	England	No.
	Jude Russell	Aust	It is glass mosaic combined with things that Bunnings sells such as nuts and washers.
	June Russell & Cheryl Lynam	Aust	No.
232	Ulrike Martinez	USA	No, I used vitreous glass and unglazed porcelain tiles.
162	Chris Carey	USA	All the tesserae I used were recycled stained glass donated by a professional stained glass artist. To give the glass a mottled look I tumbled it with sand first.
208	Samra Thompson	USA	I used porcelain floor tile because its sturdy, earthy looking and made a great looking platypus. My style of mosaic is more ‘primitive’ and the floor tiles work well. Plus, they are frost/heat resistant and will last forever outdoors. I was unsure of the weather conditions and how that would affect the mural so I thought floor tile would be the most durable.
284,285, 286	Dee and Clayton Fisher	Aust	The watery wrasse is definitely unique and a child of the 60’s with a large flower in the centre of his side.
	Debra Sutton	Aust	I decided to use stained glass as my tesserae. Its vibrant colours and translucency suited the colourful tropical fish extremely well.