After reading Morte's praxis of this task, I remembered my high school days in which my friends and I would draw silly things with our eyes closed. So, of course, I had to reenact my childhood.

I took the opposite end of the time spectrum for this task, since it specified "study the art for however long you like," and decided I would study my piece for exactly (or close to) one second.

I had Maggie select the piece for me (online) and I restored the window while she held a clock and timed me.

This was the piece she chose:



It's a Salvador Dali piece - Galatea of the Spheres.


Now for the drawing part. I got out my trusty and most expressive medium - the crayon! I allowed myself a 10 second glance at a scatterbrained box of 64 colors and realized there's no way I was going to get any of these colors right, but oh well, here goes.


Blindfold on?



Draw!




OK, I'll be honest. When I saw this painting for the first time, I was so overwhelmed by everything, all I got from it was a lot of circles and the colors involved blue and light yellow.


Well.... here's what came of it:



(note: the image has been played with digitally so that you can actually tell where I colored)


You can imagine my surprise when I went back to the computer to see the original and someone had stuck a woman's face in it!

The outrage!

Well, I decided I would give myself one more chance, just to see the difference. This time I would study the picture for a whole 5 minutes and pick only a handful of colors to use.

I did the second take after I got home from a long day's work and I appeared to be alone, so I tried setting up the video camera in a way that would capture the epic drawing being made. I ended up trying to precariously balance it on its little ledge and made this little gem as my trial run:



Luckily, Maggie came home right as I was about to start, and she agreed to videotape the process. I then decided that I needed to add my friend and I's experimental music over this avant-garde crayon creation, and this is the frankenstein child of those two efforts:

(note: my dumb movie maker repeats the track in the last 30 seconds because it isn't long enough - i need to find a better one)



And this is the (again, edited) art:





So, after such a successful recreation of a classic masterpiece, I decided it was high time my apartment-complex neighbors recognized my artistic talent. So, logically, I placed the drawings on our building's bulletin board - right by all the mailboxes!



And just like Suave, I say, if you can't tell, why should I?