Starting the Tiles

Many years ago, the National Parks in the US started selling (or maybe reselling) old travel posters for a few parks. I enjoyed both the clarity and simplicity of these designs. I started looking up old travel posters for other destinations and have collected some of the graphics.

As a traveler, I wanted to showcase my travels to different countries with the style of the NP posters., but as small stickers to use on my suitcase.

Here is one of my first tiles:

+Hexagonal (something I plan to keep)

+Iconic

- Unnecessary Label?

I like it and have kept this in my collection.

Comments

Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

I remember a friend telling me about a beautiful lake with stunning reflections. (An interested conversation because they were Chinese and there is a similar place in China called Qinghai.) I found a good image of the lake, dried and showing the salt flats. With a lot of time and a limited color palette, the final tile is complete. Enjoy.

Angels Falls, Venezuela

This is the last tile I have made for a while. I gotta get back to making more.

Breakthrough in France

France is full of iconic of places and it was easy to choose the Arc de Triomphe. But there is a lot of beautiful, but difficult detail on it and I wanted to capture all of it. I used my experience with layers, shadows and differing transparency levels to get this final result: The most rewarding part of the tile was slowly adding the shadowed reliefs. I kept adding details while zoomed in, only focusing on the outline of each shadow without seeing the full picture. The completed result was beyond my expectation.

Luke Bash

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