{"id":1308,"date":"2011-12-29T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2011-12-29T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T17:27:16","slug":"wall-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/wall-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while ago, I saw that someone did a pixelated portrait of Abraham Lincoln<\/a> and I loved it! I had it in the back of my mind that I would copy it. I liked the idea of encountering Honest Abe here and there. I actually bought a long skinny canvas to copy what I had seen.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, however, I was looking around at different photographs of the Presidents. Actually, after watching a documentary on Jimmy Carter<\/a>, I thought that I wanted to do a pixelated portrait of him doing Habitat for Humanity work. However, the pictures that I came across weren’t great for the task. Then I thought, who is a nice recognizable President with strong lines. Yes, it’s true, I have thoughts like that one. None other than the original Rough Rider<\/a> himself came to mind.<\/p>\n

So, this is the picture that I decided to work with:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The first step was to pixelate the image.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>So, then I counted the pixels to figure out what kind of canvas would work best. I wound up working with a 22X28 canvas.<\/p>\n

Then I drew the grid on the canvas. The long metal ruler that I purchased for sewing-related projects came in handy\u00a0 here!<\/p>\n

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Then I decided that I was going to use 6 shades of gray to created the image. I hadn’t read the article that went with the Abe image that inspired me, so I hadn’t realized that I could have told Photoshop Elements how many “colors” I wanted to use. I did the next best thing. Basically I assigned each color of gray that I would be using a number and then numbered the squares appropriately essentially creating a paint-by-numbers.<\/p>\n

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Then, I mixed the paint (gotta love empty yogurt containers) and started filling in the portrait color-by-color.<\/p>\n

It was pretty exciting to see it take shape. By this point, I had to erase the gridlines from the parts of the portrait that were to remain white. Luckily I had a virgin white eraser (that sounds so, so very wrong, but not quite wrong enough to make me edit out that line) and carefully erased the grids. I got rid of the eraser shavings using a can of compressed air. Finally, I painted over the hitherto unpainted squares. I debated between using white and using a very light gray. I went with the gray which will give the finished painting a bit of contrast against even a white wall.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There he is!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And for the sake of comparison:<\/p>\n

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