Carleidoscope: Kristine's entry for Work of Art Challenge #7

As you are aware (thanks to this posting), this week's Work of Art challenge was to create artwork out of a piece of a car. Our modification of the challenge (to fit our slightly less than vast resources) included photographs of cars and car parts. So here's what I created:


What is this?? This, my friends, is my Carleidescope. More specifically, it's a pattern made from tiny images of cars.

My process:

I started out in Picasa... I arbitrarily reviewed albums of pictures I've taken, and tagged pictures that contained cars. I then created an album out of my car tag (Tools --> Experimental --> Show tags as album), which looked something like this:


I needed some sort of grid to guide my cutting and pasting of tiny car pictures. I made a 10" x 10" scribble, then pixelated it (100x100 pixels). Then I copied square-ish segments of my tagged car pictures into various quadrants of my pixelated scribble. What does that mean? It means I did this:


And I added more and more tiny car pictures...







...and eventually filled the entire grid with tiny car pics:




Here is a close up of my final artwork:


And here it is as a thumbnail:


And finally I made a desktop wallpaper-sized version:


Tiled desktop background!


...and that's all 'til next week! :)