A Second Attempt

My new project. This time with a plan - plans are good, thats my first lesson, and I wont forget it. I have a drawing too, the one I'm working from, but I don't know how to post more than two pictures at one time, so you'll have to imagine it, I guess.

Through the generous donation of a friend, this current project is 'sold'. He doesn't have any idea what I'm making, and he's not seen my first attempt, thankfully. I'm baffeled by his willingness to purchase something sight unseen, knowing that I've never done this before. The justification, he says, is because the first works of a great artist are always worth the most. I didn't have the heart to tell him that he was suffering from some sort of dementia. If I'm somehow able to pull it off, I don't have the heart to tell him that it'll cost 2,000.

While starting with a plan was prudent, it is far from a guarantee that it will work out. The colors could end up being wrong, the design may not work, the grout may be the wrong color, or the wrong texture. The spaces between the tesserae may be too close or too far apart. I may not have prepared the base correctly or the tiles may pop off. The list of potential troubles is endless. But I'm hopeful and far from discouraged.