Nested Plastic Bottle Caps Give Mosaic Rich Color Palette

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September 19th, 2011 6

As impressive as this bottle-cap self-portrait from artist Mary Ellen Croteau may be, I probably would not have chosen to mention her piece CLOSE, here, if it weren’t for the interesting way that she has used sets of nested plastic bottle caps to achieve a much deeper color palette than would’ve been possible using bottle caps without the nesting trick. Clever![via Dude Craft]