2010 Schedule Wallpaper - Cheesehead Cross Stitch - Game 11 Wisconsin
Wisconsin is cheese and football and funny accents, so I had considered several images for this week's wallpaper including a moldy wedge of cheese, some appropriately mocking phrases with Wisconsonese phonetic spelling or a play on the mining roots of the "Badgers" nickname. I wasn't sure until very late what stereotypical Wisconsin imagery I would use, but I knew from the beginning that the image would be rendered as a cross stitch because you can probably walk into any home in Wisconsin and find a framed cross stitch on the wall. Most cross stitch art is tacky and cliché, so I've created a tacky and cliché image of a Wisconsin football player with a literal cheesehead.
The image below is a preview only. You can get this week's widescreen, 4:3, iPad and mobile wallpapers at The Art. The Art. The Art!.
How it was Made - Sorry, no video this week
As usual the artwork is all digital, though somewhere along the way I started to wonder whether it would have been faster to actually cross stitch the thing and photograph it. Probably not, but after copying and positioning hundreds of individual thread images I may have a full-blown case of stitcher's hand. I captured the creation of this week's wallpaper on video but unfortunately I had some unresolvable issues and won't be able to share it with you. I'm hopeful that I'll be able to resume the video demos with next week's Ohio State artwork.
All of the 2010 Schedule Wallpapers
Season Wallpaper - Denard Robinson Action Figure
Game 1 Connecticut Wallpaper - Husky Puppy Piddles in Fear
Game 2 Notre Dame Wallpaper - Touchdown Jesus Says "No Good"
Game 3 Massachusetts Wallpaper - The $550,000 Cupcake
Game 4 Bowling Green Wallpaper - Wolverine vs. Falcon
Game 5 Indiana Wallpaper - Good at Basketball
Game 6 Michigan State Wallpaper - Sibling Rivalry
Game 7 Iowa Wallpaper - Maize is Blue
Game 8 Penn State Wallpaper - The Eyes Have It
Game 8 Penn State Wallpaper - JoePa Halloween Costume
Game 9 Illinois Wallpaper - We Be Illin'
November 15th, 2010 at 7:01 AM ^
November 15th, 2010 at 9:16 AM ^
tremendous! Great work!
For tOSU may I suggest a cooler floating in a yellow lake? Perhaps all in their toilet bowl of a stadium?
November 15th, 2010 at 10:53 AM ^
an homage to the alumni v trucker ratio?
November 15th, 2010 at 8:05 AM ^
That's great monuMental, I can't wait to see next weeks for tOSU.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:06 PM ^
I appreciate that you take the time to comment every week. I always look for your awesome yoda avatar whenever I'm skimming the comments. I really hope that the OSU wallpaper ends up looking how I see it in my head.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:04 AM ^
After watching last week's "Making of" video, I am simply in awe of what you're doing here. Love of Michigan and Michigan football compels us each in different ways. We're all lucky to have someone with your talent on our side.
Keep up the phenomenal work.
Go Blue!
November 15th, 2010 at 9:07 AM ^
fantastic work and since I have no photoshop skills...
November 15th, 2010 at 1:25 PM ^
KITTY!
November 15th, 2010 at 10:59 PM ^
Yes! I love cat-grams.
November 15th, 2010 at 9:50 AM ^
yet again.
Thanks!
November 15th, 2010 at 9:50 AM ^
As a Michigan fan I find this awesome
As a Packers fan I object to the cheese head being used to represent a team other than The Packers (especially a team I hate).
November 15th, 2010 at 11:13 AM ^
Mission accomplished on both fronts.
November 15th, 2010 at 4:52 PM ^
Monumental and I have discussed doing some offseason collaborations. If you're still interested, I'm definitely up for it. I haven't had much time recently but am itching to work on some creative Michigan-related artwork.
November 15th, 2010 at 10:58 PM ^
I'm looking forward to that shorts. Let's reconnect after the bowl game.
November 15th, 2010 at 11:21 AM ^
better every week. Your work is astounding.
November 15th, 2010 at 12:29 PM ^
I was hoping to see a wallpaper for the SC Upstate game ha! No but really I'd love to see an M basketball wallpaper if you had the time..
November 15th, 2010 at 1:35 PM ^
Now, is it premature for me to inquire into the possibility of a bowl game addition and perhaps a wall paper for the off season?
All of these have been amazing.
November 15th, 2010 at 10:58 PM ^
Yes and yes. I have some special things planned for the lead up to the bowl, especially if Michigan gets a bid to the Insight Bowl here in Tempe. For the off-season I'm going to try to connect with MGoUser shorts on a project and have some other ideas that will need to exit my brain sometime between January and September 2011.
November 16th, 2010 at 3:03 PM ^
This makes me smile.
November 15th, 2010 at 8:24 PM ^
im a lifelong wisconsin resident (with the exception of four years, of course) that has stayed true to my parents roots in Saginaw but the cross stitch thing is even more so in minnesota
i love the work and i love my cheese
November 15th, 2010 at 8:13 PM ^
Now we just need someone to make an actual cross stitch of this wallpaper and the cycle is complete.
November 15th, 2010 at 10:55 PM ^
Totally! I was tempted to publish a formal cross stitch pattern for this one to see if anyone would take the challenge but I decided to get some sleep instead.
November 16th, 2010 at 9:44 AM ^
my wife maybe up for the challenge. She is very addicted to cross stitching.
November 16th, 2010 at 3:04 PM ^
This one makes me hungry... I like cheese. Hopefully the Michigan D does too...
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