Make a stained glass mosaic portrait from a photograph.

Step 8 Getting muddy

Grab a handful of your grout and smush it onto your mosaic. Keep smushing until every little nook and cranny is full of grout. Feel free to apply way more than you need. It will temporarily cover your mosaic and your art will look like a sandbox. It's okay!

Wait about 5 minutes for the grout to start drying. When you can wipe a paper towel across it and get it up enough to see the glass and not just smear around the grout, it's ready to clean off. Use dry paper towels, damp ones, a sponge, a rag, whatever you want. Just wipe off the grout and be careful not to peel up the masking tape. Make sure to get any lumps or buildup out of the corners, the grout tends to hide there.

Clean it off to your high standards (or low ones, whatever, it is your first one) and clean yourself up too. Once your artsy area is tidy, peel off the masking tape and chuck it. If there are any grout marks on the frame from sneaky grout that seeped under the tape, wipe them off with a damp towel. If they won't wipe, you can try some alcohol. If that doesn't work, retouch the frame with paint or markers. If that doesn't work, you'll need to repaint the frame most likely.

Then let it dry. Again, for about a day.