Choosing Colors!

Written By Kim Joy

When you are choosing your design to create a stained glass piece of art choosing the colors is very important. Just think either you or someone that you are making the piece will be looking at this piece for a long time.

If you want the piece to look realistic, such as a piece with flowers in it, you will probably want them to look like the real flowers- red tulips to be red tulips. Yes you can take creative license and make them any color you desire.

One of my students, Ellla, made a panel with a purple iris with green leaves in a black background and it looked absolutely stunning. The black made the purple and the green pop.

There really are no rules about color choices. This is your artwork and you can do whatever you want. Now if you asked me this 10 years ago I might have had a different answer but the older I get the more I realize it is the maker choice and we need to live with that.

Iris by Ella

If you have an questions about working with stained glass, taking a class, getting a piece repaired or commissioning artwork please reach out- kim@kimsjoy.com

Kim Joy

Kim Steinmuller Joy has been a stained glass artist and teacher since 1982. Most of her pieces are in the traditional style and starting to experiment to incorporate materials not usually found in the medium. She believes that through her pieces she can grow and learn more about the world around her and where she came from. She hopes that her work will inspire and encourage others in their artistic endeavors. She loves working with commissions that allows her to create one of kind pieces for the commissioner.

She belongs to Stained Glass Association of America and National Capital Art Glass Guild. Her work can be found at the Community Council of the Arts in Kinston NC, Arts Council of Wayne County Goldsboro, NC, and Wilson Arts in Wilson, NC. She teaches Nash Community College Nashville, NC, Wilson Community College Wilson NC. Her works are in private collections worldwide.

Kim Steinmuller Joy was raised in upstate New York and now lives and works in Wilson, NC.

https://www.kimsjoy.com
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