This is an acrylic painting but it could very well be a tile. It’s 12” x 24”, and I could put the same thing on a tile of that size and you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference, at least from a picture. It would look great in a kitchen backsplash. To see more of my kitchen murals, go to (https://www.paullewingtile.com/kitchens).
It has come to my attention that it says on my web site that my book is sold out. Last time i sold one myself, I forgot to update the inventory numbers on my website. American Ceramic Society has plenty on hand and they promise to never let it go out of print. I also have plenty on hand, and if you want one, please order through my website directly from me, as I get a lot more of the money from each copy that way. To order go to (https://www.paullewingtile.com/books-dvds/china-paint-overglaze-by-paul-lewing).
The homeowner did a great job photographing this kitchen. I love how he staged the counters and the stove. Lots of people love chickens in their kitchens.
Still painting. Here’s a nice one. This is 24” x 36”
My latest painting, 36” x 24”. Snow Lake is one of the most popular hike3s in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area. I had my friend Kim throw rocks for me.
Not much tile work going on these days so I’ve been painting. Here’s my latest. It’s 12” x 24”.
This is the biggest one I’ve done this year- 80 square feet on 12” x 24” tiles. The drawing shows how it will lay out in the shower. Too bad it won’t be installed till probably February. These big tiles are hard to handle but great to paint on. The single tree is too wide to fit on the table, but you can see how the one tile goes off to the left and the other off to the right.
This one went out last week. It will go around a window in a new condo up at Snoqualmie Summit ski area. It features the mountain itself, the chair list there, a yeti (NOT a Susquatch) hiding in the trees, and the Running of the Rainiers, which all long-time Northwesterners will remember.
This was one of those jobs where everything went wrong from the beginning. This little fish mural is going to a house in the Bahamas, and the job came to me through a designer in Florida. Why are the jobs for designers always the most trouble? So since china paint is affected by the underlying glaze color, the fish couldn’t be done on blue tile. Besides, they were particular about the color of the blue tile. And they wanted a “handmade look”, meaning not flat or square. I could have made them myself, but I haven’t done that in years, so I had a local friend make these tiles and 40 sf of field tiles. They didn't like any of the 4 blue glazes she had, so we had her make them white and then I china painted them blue. This doubled the price for them, but they didn’t care. It was also probably 10 times what it would have been if they’d just used commercial tile. So we did that, shipped them off, and about half of them broke- probably because they were not flat. Having replacement tiles made and shipping them cost me about $700. Shipped them off and sent an invoice, including an invoice taped across the seam of one of the boxes so they couldn’t miss it. A week after I know they’ve gotten them, I email to see if they were OK. They waited 3 weeks before they even opened the boxes. Ten days after they tell me they’re OK, I ask if they’ve sent a check. It went out on Monday. Ten days later, has the check been sent? It went out on Monday. Ten days after that I finally get the final payment yesterday. This job started back in February. i hope they call again some day so I can tell them to go to hell.
Every year since about 2006 I’ve done a tile for a high school in eastern Washington. They have a contest among the graduating seniors to design a tile for their class and I reproduce it in china paint on an 8” tile for them. The tiles are all displayed in the lobby of the school. Due to budget issues, this year’s tile was delayed into the new school year, but here it is.
