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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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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