Three Butterfly Tile

Description

Three butterflies sandblasted into an 13 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 3/8 inch standard grade glazed high fired lightly textured clay tile from Italy. Soft, pale, gray blue glaze.

The look of the sandblasted lines is especially beautiful as daylight moves across the walls of a room and the sandblast depressions become shadowed and more distinct. Simple and striking at the same time.

I transfer my original line drawings to sandblast stencil (a rubbery vinyl with a sticky back), attach the stencil to the surface of a rock or tile, and cut out stencil parts with a sharp stencil knife. During sandblasting, the design is "carved" into the cutouts, and the blast is blocked everywhere else. Sandblasted areas are sealed with grout sealant. My large tiles are upcycled from discarded showroom sample boards.

Sandblasting is dirty work, and sheer misery in the heat and humidity of summer in Northern California, but I just love the gradual appearance of my drawings in the tile or rock surface as the blasting progresses.

Convo me after purchase if you would like hanging hardware attached to back of tile with epoxy adhesive.

Priority Mail. Tile weighs 4 lbs.

Added on Nov 01, 2009