Mural installation

So I finally got to help Yvonne and Dave install a mural... Dave runs a great speciality tile shop in Phoenix with an equally-named guy (Dave) and Yvonne is the intrepid help and general, all-around wonder woman. The Daves run the kind of shop that you don't visit so much as slip into when your friends aren't looking, b/c didn't you just go there last week? and didn't you buy stuff you haven't even used yet and now it is piling up on your back porch? and you bought more?

Yes and yes and shut up.

So Dave #2 let me tag along to help and learn. You can learn a lot in class (see website - gratuitous plug!) but you learn even more on a job. We installed a huge mural with a sea theme, including a mermaid and some awesomely crabby, what are they called - crabs. Dave put the mural together on tile backing board at the studio and installed it in panels at the site, which was the backyard of a lovely home in north central Phoenix. Genius. I pictured laboring for hours and hours in the hot sun, placing tile upon wall like I do on the porch. But no. This is so much better, working at your own pace at your own place, in air conditioning, and then installing in one swoop. Well, three swoops but it was hot.

So check out the website and see if you think YOU could resist the fabulous designs and the great tile.
http://www.mosaicguys.com/index.html

Here are the mural pics.

This one has two main panels up



This one has all the panels up, pre-grout