Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

With Brazil, I decided to try a more stylistic approach. I thought I could use the statue and beaches with many tiles. I used squares and quarter circles to get this:

I was unhappy with the result and decided to ditch this method and go back to what I had done previously. It uses the same scene, same color palette but a more natural brush stroke.

Still unhappy, I look for other sources and color palettes and I simplified down to this (my current version):

Better, but I think I still need to tweak this one more. I leave it here for now.

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Lesotho, in depth

I have been working on a few new tiles and I wanted to go through a little of the process of of putting one of these together. Let's look at my tile for Lesotho. Lesotho is famous for its ponies and majestic Drakensberg Moutains. I sourced a few pictures: - a horse and rider (to be adjusted with a Basotho hat) - misty mountains - and the Three Rondavels (famous mountains in the Drakensbergs) The misty mountains have the color scheme and some the mountains. The silhouette of the Three Rondavels become the rest of the background and some of the foreground. The horse and rider silhouette with a proper hat finishes the tile.

Torres del Paine, Chile

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.

Luke Bash

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