TheWildMonk Projects

I don't know a bit about art. Back in school days, we had arts & crafts and I loved to sketch. But if I would know an art can make me this amount of money, I would've concentrated on that rather than spending a bit on anything else.

Hirst Spot Painting with Turtle Graphics

However, all frustrations apart, today I've made a program that can make me a million (!) in seconds like Damien Hirst does.
The objective of today's project was to create a spot painting with randomly picked colors from the colorgram python library. The target was to create a 10x10 dots on the turtle graphic canvas and create a painting similar to the following image of Mr. Hirst 😄.

It took me around 1 Hour to figure out the nitty gritty of the project and to implement it on the canvas. Here's the code snippet -

 

  import turtle as t
  import random as rd

  color_list = [(241, 222, 86), (35, 98, 185), (86, 174, 218),
                (169, 67, 37), (217, 158, 84), (187, 16, 34), (173, 49, 85), (78, 108, 210), (225, 57, 103),
                (161, 163, 23), (166, 27, 17), (75, 176, 77), (232, 70, 44), (225, 123, 172), (125, 198, 117),
                (20, 55, 146), (59, 119, 64), (118, 226, 184), (71, 30, 43), (135, 216, 233), (238, 158, 217),
                (41, 172, 183), (29, 41, 84), (242, 175, 152), (162, 165, 235), (90, 30, 22)]


  # Setting screen attributes
  screen = t.Screen()
  screen.canvwidth = 500
  screen.canvheight = 500

  # Resetting the turtle world coordinates
  screen.reset()
  screen.setworldcoordinates(-50, -50, 500, 500)

  # Setting turtles attributes
  tim = t.Turtle()
  t.colormode(255)
  tim.speed("fastest")
  tim.hideturtle()


  def reset_line_position():
      tim.left(90)
      tim.forward(50)
      tim.left(90)
      tim.setx(0)
      tim.left(180)


  # Function to create the art in a line
  def create_art():
      for _ in range(10):
          tim.penup()
          tim.dot(20, rd.choice(color_list))
          if _ < 9:
              tim.forward(50)


  # While loop to create the 10x10 art
  end_of_canvas = 1
  while end_of_canvas < 11:
      create_art()
      if end_of_canvas < 10:
          reset_line_position()
      end_of_canvas += 1

  screen.exitonclick()

The full project can be accessed via my github repository. With this and more, I'll post tomorrow again in sha Allah and will share what I'll learn tomorrow.

Hirst Spot Painting with Turtle Graphics