Hulda Crooks Ceramic Mural

I submitted this design to Loma Linda in January of 2022. The project was approved  by Februar y 28th 2022 and completed by May 31st 2022

Time to blow the tiny illustration up onto an enormous template which will serve as temporary wooden mural.

The template is made from three doorskins

Here is the painted template ready to by sectioned up into tile shapes and cut into 200 seperate tile templeates

Here is an example of a section of the 9.6x6.8 foot ceramic mural being pre-designed with a template. now each cut piece will become a ceramic tile.

Jumping ahead, here is the template and the tile being glazed for high fire

Here is the fired tile after the glaze fire.

The Cayote tiles after hire fire

Combination of wooden template and bisque fired tile

Close up of foreground high fired tile.

First time essembled on my table in the studio.

The Wall at Hulda Crooks Park ground down and ready for cement board.

We drove 1300 miles from the Northwest down to Loma Linda with our camper.

Starting to mount the tile onto the backer board