Day Twenty Three

The final motif sheets are done! I intend to lay all the rest of the tiles directly onto the wall. The motifs are the more inventive and free-wheeling opus vermiculatum forms. The rest of the tiles I will lay opus quadratum and opus tesselatum - that is, in a grid either staggered as in bricks, or aligned as in graph paper. There will be a few exceptions, such as the vine-like green stem that graces the left side and top white band, and the terra cotta and white fill in the central area in and around the arch. The next tiles I start to work in are the connective tissue uniting the motifs and I believe to do it all justice I have to work on the totality of the image from this point on.