This bird bath has orange butterflies with two shades of jade green tiles. The butterfly wings are iridescent and shine with metallic magenta and gold. The result is quite an exotic look, which I really like. It also remind me of vintage fabrics like William Morris or Liberty designs. It would happily sit in any style garden with it's vintage, and exotic look. |
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I've been wanting to do a bird bath design with a dragonfly for a while, but I've been trying to think how to do it so it didn't look like the dragonfly was under the water. Then it came to me that you get really good reflections on still water. So this design is of a dragonfly that has landed on some rushes next to a still pool and the scene is being reflected onto the surface. The dragonfly has jade iridescent tiles for the wings, so in some light angles it slightly blends into it's surroundings, which a real dragonfly would do. But when the light angle catches the iridescence the wings shine with metallic gold and magenta. This Slate Shades bird bath design came about after I was playing with tiles to come up with a new colour palette. I knew I wanted to do a simple linear design, and these tile colours reminded me of slate colours, so the idea was that it would be as if the bird bath was made with slices of different colours of slate. To add interest to the design there is a line of iridescent tiles that have purple and blue metallic colours that match the design. A nice simple, modern pattern that would suit any style of garden.
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