Sentences with phrase «embed glass microspheres»

In 1968, she began to embed glass microspheres, tiny reflective beads commonly used to brighten highway signs, in her paintings by mixing them with white acrylic paint.

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But Corse's «aha» moment occurred in 1968, when she discovered glass microspheres, the tiny prismatic beads that are often embedded into highway pavement.

But in 1968 she changed direction when she applied tiny prismatic glass beads (or «microspheres,» the kind found embedded in some highway signs and line dividers), to paint before brushing the mixture onto prepped canvases.