Grid Art-Chelsea Football Team

When I was deciding what to do for my grid art I was talking to my daughter who is a quite serious Chelsea fan. Most conversations don't go without some mention of a game or a player and this one was no exception. I had already decided to use different colored straight pins to make my grid but I hadn't decided what image to do, copy a work of art or create my own. So talking with her made me think of Chelsea and the familiar team emblem I've been seeing on all of her stuff for many years so I decided to use that as my subject. I bought all of the colored pins they had at my local Walmart. Some of them were white and the others were all multicolored boxes so I had to separate all of the pins by color. Then I realized that I wasn't going to have the proper shade of blue so I got nail polish in the right shade of blue and painted a bunch of the other colored pins. I had to stick them into styrofoam to paint them and it was quick drying nail polish so I had to stop every few minutes and seal the bottle up for a bit so it wouldn't dry out. Then I ran out of white and after a thorough search in every nearby store that might have colored pins I decided I'd have to paint some white ones with white nail polish to be able to finish. The pins are stuck into a round cut piece of styrofoam that's covered with dark blue cross-stitch fabric which provides a nice even grid to work on. The finished project has already been given to my daughter who says she is going to hang it up in her new apartment when she moves in in a couple of months.