is there a market for this

[shaunykieron]

tile picture one.bmp

would anyone buy this am not bad at making pictures out of tiles heres one i did a few weeks back

i could incoperate this in some wall or floor tiling but woild there be a market for it please all comments welcome

[Dave]

I think there could be if you tile to customers designs as well as your own....etc.......dave..

p.s....nice job on the pic mate..

[shaunykieron]

cheers ..yeah i've already been ask to do pic's of peoples pets and such like

[Dave]

Go for it shaun mate...............dave..

[shaunykieron]

yeah its something i enjoy doing too , and all those people that said i wasted two years at art collage

[TonyJ]

Very nice work there mate.

Although how would you price something like that?

I can understand you charging a single price for your framed art, but how would you work it out incorperating it on the wall/floor. Not much to a sq mtr there....LOL

Tony

[penno]

I wouldn't think the market for it would be huge, dam nice work but really cannot see the average person going for it.

[ryanbrown]

good stuff - i think the most likely place a customer might want a mosaic in a domestic situtation would be a bathrrom.
You could try some with an aquatic theme - fish swimming around etc.. - you could then show it to people in your portfolio when you get bathroom work as a possible central feature.
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or you could go could go down more artisic route like this fella:-
Boragina Mosaic Tile Art

[faithhealer]

Nice work there Shaun. Seen similar at craft shows. A bigger market might be tiled football team badges and the like. Saw a tiled Ferrai badge once, funniest looking horse I've ever seen!!

[shaunykieron]

thanks for you comments , i've thought about arts and craft fairs but need more pics yet , i think if i were do incoporate into a wall or floor i'd have to do day rate. the picture above took me 3 days to complete so its quite a long process . the pic above quite big too 1.5 m by just over a meter .

think i'd have to aim for the rich .......shaun

[Fekin]

Nice work there mate, but I don't know if many would like a center piece on a kitchen or bathroom wall, or floor, but some will, and it's something that not many other tilers will be able to offer.

[Shuntstick]

There is a market for mosaic work but it can be difficult to break into.
To incorporate it into a wall it needs to be made using the indirect method, that is tiles fixed face down to a removable material so when the mosaic if fixed the tiles a fully flush.



Here is a link to a mosaic magazine website:
Mosaic Matters - the online magazine for all things mosaic

There is work in community projects etc as well as private commissions but it is a hard field to break into.