Use your favourite piece of art as inspiration for this great DIY project that imitates pixelated art.

Magazine option:

Materials & Tools

Masonite or Canvas Board

Magazine Pages

Paper Cutter / Scissors

Ruler & Pencil

Craft Glue & Foam Brush

Instructions

1. Find a piece of art or an image as an inspiration piece.

2. Draw a grid on the inspiration piece – with each box representing a measurement that relates to the

masonite / canvas board. For example, if the art is 8” wide and 10” tall and the masonite / canvas board is 16” by 20” – creating a ¼ grid on the art would mean each ¼” inch box (on the art) relates to ½” on the masonite / canvas board.

3. Using a pencil and ruler, lightly draw a grid on the masonite / canvas board. From the example above, the grid on the masonite / canvas board would be ½” squares.

4. Using the grid applied to the art piece as a guideline, lightly redraw the image on the masonite / canvas board.

5. Tear out pages from magazines which contain colours from your art piece. Find pages with one dominate colour to minimize cutting steps.

6. Cut pages into strips – each being the width found on the masonite / canvas board. From the example above, the width of each strip would be ½” wide.

7. Cut strips into squares. From the example above, the squares would be ½” x ½”.

8. Apply glue with foam brush onto masonite / canvas boards, and place coloured squares as shown in art piece to recreate image.

Approximate Cost: $20-$40 pending size of masonite / canvas board

Paint option:

Masonite or Canvas Board

Paint

Sponge

Scissors

Ruler & Pencil

Instructions

1. Find a piece of art or an image as an inspiration piece.

2. Draw a grid on the inspiration piece – with each box representing a measurement that relates to the

masonite / canvas board. For example, if the art is 8” wide and 10” tall and the masonite / canvas board is 16” by 20” – creating a ¼ grid on the art would mean each ¼” inch box (on the art) relates to ½” on the masonite / canvas board.

3. Using a pencil and ruler, lightly draw a grid on the masonite / canvas board. From the example above, the grid on the masonite / canvas board would be ½” squares.

4. Using the grid applied to the art piece as a guideline – lightly redraw the image on the masonite / canvas board.

5. Cut sponge into pieces the size of masonite / canvas grid – ie. ½” squares from example used above.

6. Using coloured paints, dab sponge into paints and dab onto masonite / canvas board – repeating multiple times all over masonite / canvas board.

7. Continue dabbing different paint colours to recreate art piece on masonite / canvas board.

Approximate Cost: $20-$40 pending size of masonite / canvas board