Pacilantic tile is all hand-crafted and hand-painted. All the tiles are hand-crafted and painted stroke by stroke by the artists who graduated from the art school. The unique glaze shows the enamel glass feeling. Besides unique glaze, to create a beautiful tile or mural also requires a high degree of skill.
The artist first has to draw the outline on the raw tile, then use the tube-line craft skill to highlight the object. The tube lining is a method of decorating glazed tiles. It needs very steady hands and great skills to create unbroken, smooth lines. After the outline is done, different colored translucent glazes are applied - again by hand - to the separate areas of the design to create miniature works of art. Since all the glazes look similar before firing (all in orange color), the artists have to use their imagination to paint the tile. Although each tile or mural is painted individually, often painted by the same artist, the outcome will not be identical. That's the beauty of hand-crafted and hand-painted tile. Due to the relief outline and special stone inlay technique, the finished tile has a textured finish with a 3-Dimensional appearance. The stone inlay technique can be found in the Ocean Live Series, Tropical Fish Mural and Numbers. Each mural has assembling number on the back of each tile. It's easy to puzzle them together.
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