Outside Inspiration: Lessons from Mosaics
As mentioned earlier this week, if you cane, especially if you are looking to make canes from images, you can learn a great deal from mosaic artists who, like polymer caners, must break down images to their essential components.
I have looked at a lot of mosaic work in my day. I love the texture of mosaics and the genius that goes into creating recognizable images within the restrictions of the material at hand. But I have never seen anything like Atsuko Laskaris’ work. Can you believe this is a glass mosaic?
The image, composition, and emotion of this piece is gorgeous along with being amazing work done in this challenging medium. Her page shows the detail of the work. It would be quite the challenge to do this in polymer but it would be possible to get such subtle changes in color that you see in the skin and hair. Now that is something to aspire to!
Atsuko’s gallery is a long page of continuous inspiration for anyone wanting to attain realistic imagery in their canes, and for anyone that just loves soaking up beautiful art work.
