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Skin Tones and Mosaic Portraits

By Joe Moorman

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2019
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Argues against picking one idealized skin-color tessera for mosaic portraits, showing through Suzanne Coverett Earls's work how reading the highlights and shadows in a reference photo and mixing several colors, including stained glass, renders a face more convincingly.