Thursday Night Tile Class

Have you ever wanted to know more about handpainted tiles or even better...paint some of your own? Well someone asked if I would teach a tile painting class so there is one next week. Thursday evening September 29,2011 from 7:30-9:30pm .

We will cover lots of tile information, a slide show of different kinds of handpainted tiles. We will look at lots of kitchens, bathrooms and fireplaces and then we will paint 4 different tiles with different techniques. After this introductory class you will be able to start a tile project of your own.

I have been painting tiles for people's homes for 22 years so I have a few things to say about them!! ha ha

The class is $85 and will include lots of info and 4 tiles that you will paint with 4 different techniques that will be fired that you can take home.  Let me know if you want to reserve a spot.

We will also have another floor mat painting class Wednesday September 28 from 9 am -12 noon. $45

3D tile painting

number tiles

Fireplace tiles

 Backsplash tiles

5 Best Things About "Handpainted" Tiles

I am almost through with a three bathroom tile project for one of my favorite friends and clients. I can't wait to show you a finished project. They were supposed to be installed today, but the installer postponed it to Monday...

So ...when these bathrooms are finished I am hoping to show you an open studio/shop this Thursday...

Okay, so now then, back to the title....

The 5 Best things about "handpainted tile"

1. You will own a one of a kind original piece of art.

2. They are easy to clean

3. They can be any color with any picture or words on them

4. They can be any shape: round,rectangular, square, hexagonal

5.They can be 3 dimensional

Tiles are back

I have been working on a really fun tile project that was finished yesterday!

Here are the guys installing it.

The inscription by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a favorite of my client it reads:

Life does not move so fast that there is not enough time for courtesy.  Let there always be time, too, for sharing, and for gratitude.

The same house has some fun additions in the breakfast room that we recently added to.

I painted the cutest light fixture red with white details, monogrammed some lampshades, made a pleated edges and trimmed the monogram with taffeta checked ribbon and old buttons.

My very creative and fun client had seen a wooden valance that I had done for someone else and envisioned the same thing in her breakfast room. She already had the cute curtains and the red tray ceiling.

The framed print on the wall is a darling Christmas Card from the White House since she once worked for First Lady Laura Bush. It was where all the fun colors from the breakfast room came from!

There is more to come from this house soon.

 

Tiles

I am immersed in tiles right now. I am working on a tile fireplace that will be revealed next week, but in the meantime here are some house number tiles.

These live outside my house.

These are in the mail to a house in Dallas.

They are painted brown terra cotta tiles then covered with 3 coats of white glaze, then painted on top of the glaze with the design you see and then put in the kiln and fired at a million degrees for lots of hours. The process of painting on top of glaze is called Majolica. It does not allow for mistakes....