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! :)

Rules for artwork inspired by Work of Art, Season 2, Challenge #7

As you may have noticed, we had a little vacation from blogging last week. There was no episode of Work of Art! We're back this week, with a new challenge: create a work of art using at least one car part. Technically, the contestants were limited to parts from one kind of car. We're opening our challenge up to parts from whatever car we choose (no, we are not planning to steal parts from cars). And in defiance of Emily's request, I hereby proclaim that photographs of car parts are also acceptable. Take that, Emily.

Due date: 6 p.m. on Monday, 5 December. (take note, Emily!!)

Here's how our last challenge turned out: