ArtFlyProjects
Three pictures in one. People painting, finished picture on table, finished picture on wall.

We've run a few Pixel Portraits making community events now. E.g. In Kendal Library and in Barrow Library.

But to figure out how to do it we made a few at home first using family to judge speed etc.

Woman with glasses face.
Jennie's Mum, visiting for xmas became our first subject. I had to remove the shadows from the photo.
Woman portrait made from squares.
Pixelated grandma!
People painting around a table.
After mixing the paint we all started painting squares with a pleasing range of perfectionism / slapdashism.
Finished picture on table.
It took about an hour and a half and was really pleasing. Test passed.
Finished painting on the wall.
The finished 9 sheet picture taped together on the wall.
Bee painting made from paint dots.
An experiment using the end of a pencil to make hexagonal (honeycomb) dots