I tried out my final piece idea by placing my picture in the fireplace and covering the gaps with my tiles that I have had fired. I think this works extremely well and I have decided to use the clear glaze, as I feel like the blue and the mixed blue and yellow don't work well with the colours that I have used within my painting. The clear glaze will emphasise the colours in the painting, allowing the warmth of the memories to be shown clearly.
I know that I now have enough tiles to go into the spaces between the painting and the fireplace. After the Christmas holidays, I am measure the space where the painting and tiles will go and have a piece of wood cut to that size so that I stick both the painting and the tiles to it, enabling the final piece to be put together. Before Christmas, I will make sure that all of my tiles are glazed with clear glaze, allowing me to crack on with putting together my final piece in January.
I produced these trials before I started to write into my tiles with the block letters. I was originally going to write into them, like the trial below, however I wanted to go for a neater look for I chose to use the block letters which worked much better:
Before I used the idea of brushing the letters with iron oxide, I mixed together iron oxide and clay and put the clay into the channels where the letters were and scraped the excess of, allowing the letters to have a contrasting colour; however after using a neater way of writing the letters into the tiles, this idea was scrapped. This shows that I experimented with different techniques to see which worked best:
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