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Pixelated Artwork Made from Paint Chips
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Nite saw our recent how-to post on creating a pixelated painting and it inspired an email to us with some photos of an amazing bit of DIY artwork that he made from paint chips...

 
 

He says: This is a mosaic I did using those Benjamin Moore paint chips you can get from hardware stores. After a lot of time, patience, photoshop, and numerous trips to ACE hardware, I was finally able to finish.

Totally clever, budget friendly and wonderfully exectued!

Thanks for the inspiration, Nite.

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    Images: Nite Kongtahworn

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    Comments (5)

    This is so weird -- I think I must be on the same wavelength as Re-Nest considering that this article http://bit.ly/ajfBW was just posted two days ago, also about paint chip art.

    posted by lindalucille on September 25th 2009 at 6:30pm
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    Love, love this idea! Any chance to get a copy of your M.Monroe paint chip arrangement in order to duplicate it?? It truly is a piece of art and it would be awesome on my brown bedroom wall! (I totally understand if you don't want to share it too.....!) Thank you.

    posted by lindi315 on October 5th 2009 at 3:14pm
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    You may find this useful for creating mosaic art. We created this to remove some of the complexity from mosaic wall art. It's not perfect, but someone might find it useful.

    posted by tradnairb on October 6th 2009 at 12:03pm
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    very cool! I was just recently trying to come up with a new mosiac material that would be more lightweight than tile. Now I have it! And the perfect way to reuse the thousands of paint samples I have stuffed in a drawer!

    posted by 2 Green Acres on October 6th 2009 at 12:19pm
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    To tradnairb : Thank you for the link to heavy mural! I will try it! Looks very promising.

    posted by lindi315 on October 21st 2009 at 12:45pm
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