My Grid Art

The most recent assignment for Art and Technology class was to use a pre-existing grid and reproduce and image using any material that could represent the units of the image. After having a hard time finding a pre-existing grid and getting a little help from my mother (who sent me the materials I needed for the units) I created my own grid art. It is a 64 x 79 grid and I utilized more that a 1,000 push-pins. I used a yoga matt that I bought in the Bookstore as my grid and color push-pins as my units. It may not be visible at first, but the yoga matt is composed of very small squares. In order for the pins to take up a whole unit, I decided to make four of those squares (2x2) into a single unit. So it can be easier to identify, I used a red marker to highlight the units composed of the four squares. As for pins, I remembered that my house in Puerto Rico is near an Office Max and asked my mother to send me a good amount of them. There are five colors: green, blue, magenta, purple and white. There are also square ones in black and white (present form my mom). After I created my own virtual grid using excel, I used it as a reference to create the real thing. The image I used was one of a peacock I found in Google Images. IT DOESN'T BELONG TO ME. The real creator has all the credit.