Sometimes an art project can be a tonic. Doesn't matter whether you're a student or adult when someone proposes a small event requiring imagination plus scissors and paint. If the idea strikes you, it becomes a great escape.
Let's try one called the Tower of London contest. The goal is to produce an interesting version of one of the world's best-known castles. Send me a photo of your completed project and I'll print it. Send one that features You in the photo, even.
1. In the illustration is the original stronghold, the White Tower, built in 1076. Subsequently, a great deal more has been added. My background: Wikipedia.org. You may restrict your project to the White Tower, if you choose.
2. A pencil or pen-and-ink sketch of the tower would be nice. There are the crenellated parapets and Roman arches over some of the windows and much other absorbing detail.
3. There are actually 20 towers in the greater Tower of London. On Wikipedia you will find several views of the complex, including one of the side away from the Thames. Choose any view, please.
4. Card stock can be used to make a box upon which much detail can be sketched. The dental edges of the walls can be scissored in if you've a mind.
5. A pop-out version of the Tower in paper would be my favorite medium.
6. To be an effective artist, find the child within you: do a fingerpaint version of the castle. Nor are you limited to realistic colors. I would love to see a Psychedelic Tower.
7. Nor are you limited to realism in regards the structure. This is to be a re-presentation, not some sort of copy.
8. Collage is one of my favorite media. Since I'm going to join the contest myself, I may be doing a considerable bit of snipping of pages from old magazines and pasting together my Tower representation.
The deadline: Friday night. I'll run what I've been sent on Sat. morn.
The extended deadline would be: Anytime You Read This. In blogland the word deadline may be a plastic construction.
Send it to trudeau@earthlink.net, please. Of course, you retain all rights, in perpetuity.
The Beefeaters! The origin of that name is indeed thought provoking.
4 comments:
"deadline" friday night? Don't you know artists are notorious procrastinators? Great idea, though. Sometimes it's good to have a little direction for a new project to get the juices of creativity to flow.
"the mortar used in its construction was tempered by the blood of beasts." Too bad that's a myth... does stir the imagination, though.
Yes, the deadline is ridiculous. But it's such a worthy project.
Please check out the paper diorama of the Ponte Vecchio, Firenze, made by student Emily Huber umpteen years ago - on sptFaces. I've been thinking about how I want my Tower to go, but until I hit the work table there's no certainty. Part of the fun of this is watching your own chemistry at work.
Please see my first version, as well as one by Annabel & Katlynn in Clear Lake, on SptFaces. Anyone else?
Well, I sat down with my sketchbook, and there were only fish in my head. This is what I sketched...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/courtneyisapirate/519007928/
It makes a poor Tower of London, but it'll do as a base for a new painting.
You'll end up with a Tower of London when you're least expecting it.
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