5pm Post it Picasso 12162020

Tyler Watts is behind an eye-popping display gracing the widows of a library in Whitesburg.

C1 3 it's all because of a letcher county teacher.

Tyler watts is behind an eye- popping display gracing the windows of the library.

Making it all the more impressive... the materials he uses to make the displays.

It has earned him the nickname: the post-it picasso.

Abc 36 chief meteorologist and stem educator jason lindsey is in the studio with more.

And jason.... watts' talent took shape in the classroom.

It started as math lesson in 20-16..

A way to teach his first grade students at letcher elementary school about line symmetric shapes.

That's when tyler watts' artistic talents began to take shape too.

L3: abc 36 news white "post-it picasso" teacher uses math, post-it notes, to make eye-popping art displays watts says he would get down on the floor with his students and use post-it notes to show them how to create line symmetric shapes.

He says that's when the idea to make it an artform came to him.

Since then.... watts large-scale displays have gone up around the state at businesses... schools...even at the capitol.

His talents have been on display at the harry m.

Caudill memorial library in whitesburg for the last six years.... where he has created fourth of july, halloween and christmas displays.

One of watts' favorite childhood memories is the inspiration behind this year's christmas display featuring the muppets.

L3: abc 36 news white tyler watts "post-it picasso" when me and my sister melanie were growing up, she and i would laugh so hard at the muppets and i don't know why, something about mascots and muppets.

We still to this day laugh so hard at it.

L3: abc 36 news white "post-it picasso" teacher uses math, post-it notes, to make eye-popping art displays watts says the project took two weeks to complete and 10,000 post-it notes.

And, like many of the displays he has done, his students were also involved in creating this one.

L3: abc 36 news white tyler watts "post-it picasso" just to give them a little bit of ownership and i get their opinions on it.

They help me rule things out on the design a whole lot, they don't care one bit to do that, but i have the kindest students in the world, they're sweethearts.

They're good kids."

In case you'e wondering... watts doesn't have to pay for all the post-it notes he uses for his displays.

The 3-m plant in cynthiana, which makes post-it notes, sponsors watts and sends him what he needs for his projects.

Watts says he uses the "supersticky" post-it notes so the display stays up.

And when it's time for the display to come down... he uses a leaf blower to remove the post-it notes.

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