Glass Mosaic Tile Art: Color and Contrast

Posted on September 28, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment | Leave a Comment

Working with color in mosaics is much more challenging than most other art media, such as paint and colored pencils.  If we, as mosaic artists, can’t mix colors to create new ones, are we stuck with what the glass manufacturers give us?

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Working with color in mosaics is much more challenging than most other art media, such as paint and colored pencils.  The painter’s color palette is limited only by the painter’s imagination in mixing any number of colors until the desired hue is achieved.  In contrast, the mosaic artist’s color palette is constrained by the limited colors that glass manufacturers decide to produce, which are typically determined by what sells best.