Color Art

Stained glass is a medium that artists use color to express nearly everything in their artistic design. While the wire metal stand supports the glass it is the glass that people are drawn to. Color does many things for a composition, it enriches as well as complicates our experience and communication with the image. Glass is an amazing medium in color because the only product artist have to work with is the actual glass. So everything must be perfect in glass all the way to their edges of individual pieces. There are no lines, like in drawing where you would be able to produce a gradual change in a colors value. Everything must be produced through individual pieces of glass.

Color is light and having the color on a lamp shade enforces that idea even further. The intensity of these colors on the glass are able to change. Because the glass is positioned by a light source the colors’ intensities rise and fall depending on if the light is on or off. So when the light is on the color approaches its highest intensity, and when the light is off the colors are at their lowest possible intensity.

This image has almost an all chromatic theme for the composition of color, not looking at the black metal. All the pieces of glass are about the same hue. However the value of the color changes in some areas becoming almost an orangish color. This idea is referred to the color additive or subtractive element in each piece of glass. This lamp shade has a beautiful color and the change in values is executed very well.