Peacocks symbolize long life, are elegant and attractive, and tile murals with colorful elegant peacocks bring color and interest to any backsplash. Birds of paradise can be identified by their distinctive long plumage. The gazelle is a symbol of grace and beauty, grazing among the foliage (on a cobalt blue background). The vine tree represents eternal life, with male and female birds on either side of the tree, eating it's fruit. |
If you need a custom sized tile mural, please inquire and send us the dimensions.
These rare tile murals - gazelles, birds, Tree of life - are painted on ceramic tile, hand glazed and fired at a high temperature. The colors are sealed in permanently, giving you a colorful original tile mural which lasts a lifetime. No digital processes are used - only traditional methods of hand painting, glazing and firing are used to give the tile murals an authentic, real look and feel, with strong colors, varying shades, and thin outlines, carefully executed in our studio. These works of art make beautiful decorative kitchen backsplashes, bathroom tile accents, and fireplace face or top insets. The tiles withstand heat and moisture (in kitchens and bathrooms), and weathering outdoors (extreme heat and cold). Tile murals are made by taking a design and painting it on several tiles, and then putting the tiles together, like pieces of a puzzle, to form a large image. Our tile murals are painted on multiples of 6 inch tiles. The size of sets shown above start from 18 x 18 inches, 18 x 12 inches, and 18 x 30 inches. The tile murals are ready to be installed in walls, kitchens, sink backsplashes. Or if you prefer, you can buy the murals and then have them mounted in a wood frame, to hang on the wall, as a mobile decorative wall hanging. Features and benefits of our tile murals:
- Unique and colorful accents for:
- kitchen backsplashes
- Bathroom walls
- Fireplace tops and faces
- Table tops
- Fountain wall backgrounds
- House entrance wall decor
- Tiles withstand heat, moisture, and extreme temperatures (outdoor use)
- hand painted, hand glazed and fired at 1850 F. Colors are permanently sealed in and do not wash away. Tile murals last a lifetime.
- All tile murals can be installed indoors or outdoors.
- Typical Uses - ready to be installed in backsplashes, bathroom murals, kitchen murals, fireplace tops or faces, decorative accents for spas, restaurants, hotels, wine cellars, exterior walls, table tops.
- Each tile, making up a mural is 6 inches in size, and 3/16th (about a 1/4 inch thick) of an inch thick.
The process of painting The process consists of a number of stages:
- First the design is composed on paper with pencil
- When the design is finished, it is hand transferred and painted with brush directly on the tiles, using black paint to paint the outline first
- The colors are then filled in using brushes and underglaze ceramic paints
- after the painting is done, the tiles are hand glazed and left to dry
- After drying, they are fired in our kilns at 1850 F
- the end result is a unique hand painted tile mural ready for installation
All tile murals are packed and shipped as loose tiles. Please email us if you have any questions. |
