Water filing and changing the surface color	Installation day of the murals and shadow surface	Buffing the black grout and shadows
Completion of turtles in water	Finished installation with water.	Inlay installation after the demo and cutting of the tile, the turtle is set and some dolphins. Corona Del Mar has excellent tile setters!
Installation complete on exposed aggregate with stain for shadow.

This is a hole in a pool in Guam.

A turtle was installed but one small was made with the grouting. White grout, ugggh! Before I even saw this picture I knew what was wrong when I received an email that read, "It was a busy weekend around the house and I didn't get around to taking photo as planned. The beast has been grouted now. The white grouting has nicely lightened up the black tiles, but the shadow isn't as convincing with the tile lines visible. Do you suggest a darker grouting?

Black grout doesn't compete with the tile color. The email read: "Here's new turtle (with black grout and a closer match color elsewhere). What do you think?" I was so glad that the color of the grout was easily changed to black. Please go to your television set and look closely at the pixels that create the picture and please understand that they are colored black because it makes them hidden versus white which would compete with the color it is trying to emit. The same is with my tile and any tile. It is reflecting light and deserves not to compete with the grout. Make the grout the lowest on the tonal quality of the color spectrum. This is why I use black for almost all my murals and possibly why diamonds are always presented on black felt. It is more impressive to the eye.

Color Differences: Notice the two different shades of these turtles. They are the same turtle. The yellow appearance to the turtle is caused from the direct sunlight and the other more muted turtle is caused when the clouds are illuminated. The turtles change minute by minute in appearance relative to the lighting.

Herbert, of All Pool and Spa, plasters around steps and reef fish.

Harvey wiping some final touches of the turtle that was just grouted with the black plaster.

  Look at the depth of the dolphins position on the wall in the dry setting photo. Speculate what they look like after the water has been put into the pool. There will be a noticeable difference in where the eye perceives the dolphins because of the refraction of water. The dolphins themselves are designed a bit chubby to make up for the refraction height of the dolphin as well as the position. The worst is to install them at the exposure of their dorsal fin. I know it's what everyone wants but it makes the dolphin appear like a long skinny fish with a huge dorsal fin. They have to be at least a foot and a half below the water line to escape the ill effects of refraction.

Finished Pool Installation: When the tile has already been completed, there is always a possibility that murals can be inlayed into any surface. Here a turtle is being laid into the hole that was cut with a diamond saw with the use of a template made specifically for each mural in the pool. The pool also has Three dolphins.

Make Turtle" This turtle is suffering from a bad lunch of jelly fish mixed with plastic wrap. Please don't litter the ocean, some think its food and don't make it. Hawaiians call this one "make" which means dead. This is the reason that I will no longer allow something that I have handmade to be installed by overly confident tile setters. When the shadow is cut it becomes to hard edge which makes the turtle look even closer to being dead and pined to the bottom. This is how you make your turtle not float but sink. This is also how you get a sick feeling in the artist. Please make sure your tile setter is a good listener, not a good talker.

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