Tileworks

120cm sq. mosaic artwork

Developing the Light (part 3 of 5)

Intent: Gray up hoodie to separate form bkgnd. Warm up face more.

Execution: Add a fill light (more of a low pwr co-main) to bring back the gray in the hoodie. Full-CTO, camLT and feathered across chest.

Problem: Warm face more. Lift head off bkgrnd.

Look at beautiful tilework

Tilework by Candido Portinari

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Subway Tileworks had the closest match [i.e. the flattest surface, thinnest grout line] to the original tile in kitchen and bathrm

Close-up of vanity

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In the Museum at the Visitors' Center, Yellowstone NP. I really love both the background irregulars and the custom bear piece.

Incredible detail

exterior tilework

The struggle starts as the keeper dives in an attempt to stop the headed backpass from his team mate. Royal Albert FC v St Anthony's FC, SJFA, West Region, Central District, Division 2, 8 April 2017, Tileworks Park, Stonehouse, Scotland

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Tileworks

Tilework in the Forbidden city.

tilework on a store front along Lincoln Ave

St Anthony's Midfielder Kieron Maxwell (10) makes some room and shapes to thump a shot towards the Abert goal. Royal Albert FC v St Anthony's FC, SJFA, West Region, Central District, Division 2, 8 April 2017, Tileworks Park, Stonehouse, Scotland

Tilework in Whitehall Subway Station in Lower Manhattan.

Marrakech, Morocco.

front stoop of antiquarian bookshop on rue Faubourg St. Honore

Just randomly in the medina. All the tiles are hand-cut, aka someone chipped each tile into shape, no saws. Pretty!

Madeira. Basic scan of photo taken in February 1999

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18th century kitchen that was moved to the museum from a mansion in the city of Valencia. Over 1,500 tiles depicting a domestic scene from that time.

Fruits tile 6"x6" - Buttercream glaze overbrushed with stain on stoneware body - handcrafted (press-molded) by Diane Winters. Design adapted at the request of the Oakland Museum from a historic Arequipa Pottery tile

Typical zellige (tilework) and incised plasterwork. The tilers in Fes cut all the individual pieces by hand after firing, so many thousands of pieces are needed for tiling like this. The plasterwork is cut by hand when half set.

Antalya Archeological Museum [?]

Tilework round Aumale metro station entrance, with each of the EU Member States, some information about them, and the signatures of the children who created this work.

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The zellige tilework decorated minaret of the Great Mosque of Salé, the third largest mosque in Morocco, reconstructed by Sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur in 1284 A.D. Since the 12th century, Salé has been a royal burial ground--a Chellah. Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur is among the royals buried here.

The storks have built a huge nest atop the minaret.