Patterned Tiles Installed
Just got a picture of this tile installed in a backsplash. If there had been a lot more of them, I’d have printed at least part of that pattern. As it was, with only 12 of them, I just traced an outline for the bigger shapes, handpainted that in, and free-handed the rest of the pattern.
St. Mary Peak
This is a scene featuring St. Mary Peak in the Bitterroot Range in western Montana. In the foreground is a historic ranch and the Bitterroot River.
Thistle & Bee
Still painting. Here’s a nice one. This is 24” x 36”
Snow Lake
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.
Gingko Leaves
Not much tile work going on these days so I’ve been painting. Here’s my latest. It’s 12” x 24”.
Madrone Trees
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.
Ski Area
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.
Fish Tile
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.
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.