High School tile
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.
Patterned Tiles
These tiles just went home last week. They’ll be going behind a stove. They look like traditional majolica tiles, but they’re china paint. I did trace a couple of the outlines of the main shapes, but these are almost completely free-hand, mostly with brushes but the fine black lines are done with a pen. Too bad about the big glare spot, though.
Paintbrush & Butterfly
Not much tile work to show lately, so here’s a painting, 24” x 36”
2023 SeniorClass Tile
This is the annual Senior Class Tile for this year. I’ve done this for a high school in eastern Washington every year since about 2006. It’s always fun to see what they will come up with. They have a contest among the seniors and I put the winning design on a 8” x 8” tile for the lobby of the school.
Matisse
This was another easy one. Client wanted me to reproduce a Henri Matisse cut paper design on her tile. Just had to change the proportions just a bit and match her 4 colors.
Roosters
Chickens seem to be a perennially popular kitchen tile motif, sometimes both hens and roosters, sometimes, like this job, just the roosters. These, on 6” tile, will be interspersed with field tile on two kitchen backsplashes.
Logo tiles
I don’t post a picture of a job till it’s paid for- call me superstitious. This one was delivered about 6 weeks ago, but the check finally came today. I’ve made these tiles for these folks before.
Tropical fish
I’ve painted a lot of tropical fish over the years. Here are some more. These will go in kind of an unusual place, though. They’re going around the base of the walls of a bathroom, like baseboard. There are plain blue ones that go in the corners to fill out each wall, so the tile setter doesn’t have to cut any of the painted ones.
Teapot
Last weekend at the Bellevue Fair, I had so many people tell me they had a painting of mine, or I had done tile for them. Always good to hear. And a couple of them said they had pots of mine! One lady sent me this picture of a teapot she’s still using.
Lake Murray
This is a really big tile that I just did for a guy in South Carolina. It’s 13” x 27”, and it’s a very detailed map of Lake Murray. He made it easy for me, as he sent me a full-sized printout of the map, so I just transferred it onto the tile with graphite paper, then followed that line with black china paint in an old-fashioned steel lettering pen.