Three Don’t s to Keep in Mind while Creating Mosaic Portraits

Mosaic portraits can be masterpiece items for your walls to increase the interior decoration of your home or office. If you have sufficient mosaic skills, you can create mosaic portraits of your family members, historic personalities, mesmerizing sceneries, or any attractive picture you found on Internet. Today you can also use designing software to create beautiful designs to depict in your mosaic portrait. If we talk about mosaic materials, you can use a variety of materials in your mosaic work such as crockery, stained glass pieces, ceramic tiles, limestone, shells, marbles, pebble stones, mirror pieces and many others. You also have large range of mosaic kits and advanced tools available to make your mosaic task easier. 

When it comes to creating mosaic portraits, experts suggest you many do’s and don’ts. Here we will talk about three major don’ts that you should keep in mind while creating a mosaic portrait. 

Avoid using colors too much: When you use too deep colors, the portraits may look fine from a far distance. However, a closer look or examination reveals the ugly side of the portrait. A bit lighter mosaic image would look better from both close and far distances. 

Avoid less cell count: If you want a clear and crisp mosaic portrait, you should focus on increasing the cell counts, the building constituents of the image. With lesser number of cell counts, you get a blurred image, which may not be recognizable from a far distance. With higher number of cell counts, you get more ability to depict the fine details of the image. 

Do not shoot the source image from a far distance: You can build a clear and crisp portrait of the source image only when you have a close picture of the source image. So, avoid taking a group shot or a shot from a far distance of the source image. Shoot the source object from a close distance so that you can have a clear picture of the source enabling you to build crisp portrait. If you are going to portray a person, take a close shot of the face of the person. If you have only a group picture available of the person you are going to portray, then try to crop the image tightly to get closer view of the personality. 

What if I don’t have enough expertise or time?

If you do not have enough expertise of Mosaic art or do not want to spend your precious time, you can take help of skilled mosaic artists for your mosaic project. In California, Mike McCormick is a renowned mosaic artist having spent more than 20 years developing mosaic arts and tables. He has his own mosaic studio in California, where a variety of mosaic items is available for display and sale. You can visit Mikemosaic.com. You can purchase mosaic patio table, ceramic tile portraits, mosaic kits and other great mosaic items for your home and office from the online store. Contact McCormick at MikeMosaic@aol.com or (562) 505-1779.