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Finished pixel portraits of Jodie Whittaker and John Ruskin

As part of the Get Creative week we ran a community pixel portrait session in Kendal Library.

As there were likely to be a lot of young kids there we made the Dr Who (Jodie Whittaker) picture from stickers and keep John Ruskin as a painting option.

This worked out really nicely. It was nice to see so many people being completely absorbed in paiting or stickering.

Picture or John Ruskin made from squares.
John Ruskin preview image using nine A4 sheets.
Picture of woman make from squares.
Jodie Whittaker preview
People standing in library with boards.
Setting up. We blue-tacked all the pages in place. People came in, took a sheet, and returned it when completed.
Paint pots on a table labelled with symbols.
The squares to be painted each had a symbol on representing the correct colour to use. I thought symbols would be easier to distinguish, but now I think numbers would have been ok!
Man and two children at a table adding stickers to a sheet.
A family hard at work filling in the stickers.
Two boys painting.
Some kids preferred to paint, some to sticker and some did both.
People painting around a table.
We had one table set aside for painting and another for stickering.
Partial portrait of Jodie Whittaker on a board.
Each time a sheet was completed it was added back to the board so we could slowly watch the portrait take shape.
People painting.
The stickers proved quicker than the painting method.
Girl adding sheet to picture.
The last Jodie Whittaker sheet being added!
Woman adding sheet to portrait.
The last Ruskin Sheet being put in place!
Finished portraits.
More by luck than planning we finished about just about bang on time!