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The process of making these four tiles were sort of a challenge because we were working on our project after this one. We had to make six tiles of basically any subject. I chose to do a Toucan because they are beautiful birds and are a interesting shape, also something I haven't done with a art project before. Like I always do horses or dragons or something. I was only able to make four tiles because it was always the top left corner that kept breaking off because I've noticed the leaves and the toucan's beak are really close together so I would see now why that would be a problem. Firstly we had a flat piece of clay tile and then we started to mold our shape of our subject onto the clay to make a classic mold piece first. We used tools to mold all the parts together and also to clearly make a foreground and background variation within the piece. Next we put boards around our clay tile once it was dry and had to mix some plaster and pour it on our clay to make a huge p