Selecting Tiles for Mosaics

Video Transcript

"There are thousands of different ways to design and make a tile mosaic. For this project I've chosen this Mexican tile as a feature point for our project. Mexican tile has a terracotta backing, so it's a low fire tile. Remember low fire is only good for indoor use. Mexican tiles are very bright and colorful. They have lots of unique patterns and are really wonderful for focal points or feature points or to just add some pizazz to any mosaic. So I chose this one first, and I decided to choose other tiles to really compliment this piece but not overtake it. So I've chosen a number of this dark blue tile. This dark blue is a solid color so it doesn't compete with the pattern and it brings out the dark blue dots in the background of the sun. I have a few of these dark blue ones that will really offset this sun very nicely. I've also chosen one yellow one to really compliment and bring out the yellow in the sun but not overtake it too much. I've also chosen a second Mexican tile to bring a little more color and pattern and compliment the first one nicely."