{"id":618,"date":"2015-02-06T11:13:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/?p=618"},"modified":"2025-04-28T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T15:32:29","slug":"pixel-mosaics-from-pantone-swatches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/pixel-mosaics-from-pantone-swatches\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixel Mosaics from Pantone Swatches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted&nbsp;about artists who <a title=\"Mosaics Give a New Perspective on Classic Art\" href=\"\/blog\/mosaics-give-a-new-perspective-on-classic-art\/\">re-work&nbsp;classic pieces<\/a> of art&nbsp;with a fresh perspective, breathing new life into images we&#8217;ve surely seen dozens of times. I especially like it when artists incorporate mosaics into their approach.&nbsp;<a title=\"Smith and Stuff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithandstuff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nick Smith<\/a> is a London-based visual artist and interior designer who focuses mostly on screen printing and has most recently created a series of work using Pantone color swatches.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"link-mona\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-622\" src=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Mona-Lisa-1-940.jpg\"alt=\"Nick Smith's Mona Lisa Pantone Swatch Mosaic\" width=\"600\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Mona-Lisa-1-940.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Mona-Lisa-1-940-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Mona-Lisa-1-940-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Mona-Lisa-1-940-624x923.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/ajax.googleapis.com\/ajax\/libs\/jquery\/3.2.1\/jquery.min.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\nvar link = '[insert_php]echo get_page_link(); [\/insert_php]';\nvar listItems = $('#link-mona');\nvar loc = window.location.href;\nvar url = loc.split(\"\/\");\nvar lastPart = url[url.length - 2];\nvar page = url[url.length - 3];\nif (lastPart == 'blog'|| ((page == 'page') && (lastPart == parseInt(lastPart, 10)))) {\n  listItems.attr('href', link);\n} else {\n  listItems.each(function(index, as) {\n    as.href = as.getElementsByTagName(\"img\")[0].src;\n  });\n}\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Smith&#8217;s work is currently showing&nbsp;at the <a title=\"Lawrence Alkin Gallery, Soho London\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lawrencealkingallery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lawrence Alkin Gallery<\/a> in London, his show is called&nbsp;<em>Psycolourgy<\/em>. The show will run from January 23, 2015 through February 21, 2015. Is it coincidence that the show is running right around Pantone&#8217;s Color of the Year announcement? Maybe, maybe not. Either way, I&#8217;m loving these mosaics. The rigid edges of the color swatches give each piece a very modern look and feel; sterile, but in a good way. Unfortunately, being based in the USA, I&#8217;m unable to make it to Smith&#8217;s show. If you&#8217;re in or around London, be sure to check it out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Bigger-Splash-9401.fullwidthproduct-300x298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-620\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Bigger-Splash-9401.fullwidthproduct-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Smith Pantone Swatch Mosaics\" width=\"260\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Bigger-Splash-9401.fullwidthproduct-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Bigger-Splash-9401.fullwidthproduct-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Bigger-Splash-9401.fullwidthproduct-624x620.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Bigger-Splash-9401.fullwidthproduct.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Marilyn-pink-print-940.fullwidthproduct-300x298.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-621\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Marilyn-pink-print-940.fullwidthproduct-300x298.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Smith's Marilyn Monroe Pantone Swatch Mosaic\" width=\"260\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Marilyn-pink-print-940.fullwidthproduct-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Marilyn-pink-print-940.fullwidthproduct-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Marilyn-pink-print-940.fullwidthproduct-624x620.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.picturemosaics.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Nick-Smith-Marilyn-pink-print-940.fullwidthproduct.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve posted&nbsp;about artists who re-work&nbsp;classic pieces of art&nbsp;with a fresh perspective, breathing new life into images we&#8217;ve surely seen dozens of times. I especially like it when artists incorporate mosaics into their approach.&nbsp;Nick Smith is a London-based visual artist and interior designer who focuses mostly on screen printing and has most recently created a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,5,7,115],"tags":[9,249,116,117,118],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-fine-art","category-mosaics","category-nick-smith","tag-mosaics-2","tag-nick-smith","tag-pantone","tag-pixels","tag-swatches"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pantone Pixel Mosaics - Picture Mosaics Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Artist Nick Smith turns classic works of art into unique mosaics using Pantone color swatches. 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