The Olive Harvest

Ceramic Mural painted for my friend the potter Jose Simon: Sorbas, Almeria, Spain

Note: this page is a work in progress and will be part of a section which includes the preparatory drawings.

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Jose Simon

The finished work in situ on a wall opposite the restaurant: Meson la Almazara

Detail:women putting olives in sack

Detail: central woman gathering olives. This blue is fragile and lots of it must have come off when the tile was put into the glaze. The answer I think is to mix the colour with gum arabic.

Detail: men beating the tree

Detail: woman on right gathering olives

Picture before firing. Notice the difference in the colours. This is the first time I've worked with ceramics.

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