Siegel Hand Painted Tiles
If you are looking for Siegel Hand Painted tiles, you have found us. Painting tiles has been a real delight for me. I have been discovering the various methods 
Using traditional Spanish techniques I have adapted the art form in a new direction.
The Valencian region is filled with various towns that specialize in the various ways to work with clay. Using locally produced clays the Spanish tiles are world famous. The offerings here are hand painted on pure clays culled from the River Turia as it has been for centuries. Each tile is cleaned and cooked again to assure its purity and remove any oils or greece from handling. A pure Valenciano base is applied to allow the applied colors to pop out at you.
Rick Siegel’s Hand Painted Tiles
While the Spanish decorative tiles generally have traditional design which has been handed down generation to generation I find myself using my own imagination and experiences to apply design to tile.
A work of art using centuries old techniques.
The various techniques Rick Siegel uses:
You will find a collection of Spanish Cuerda Seca where I have incorporated modern music, avant-garde, and even portrait studies. “Cuerda Seca” (dry cord) technique originated in the 15th Century in the South of Spain which at that time was the main center of Western Art and Culture.
Recently I have used the Spanish Engobe techniques and coloring. Engobe are colors for clay. The works are colored with metal oxides or stains and it is used by coating the surface of a work either before or after bisque firing. It can be used in both low heat ovens and high heat. The draw back with just using and engobe coloring is that it needs to be coated to retain the color in sun or weather and is not glossy like esmaltes (enamels).
In the last years I have concentrated more on using different techniques and coloring. In the last months I have been working on a piece using pointillism and the piece has already taken 3 months in making it and is still not completed. You will see it soon in the shop.
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