SF0 / ingeborg / Art Unseen

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Art Unseen by Borgasm, Rin Brooker, Mary-Clare Cable

November 21st, 2009 5:35 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Select a piece of artwork. Study the art for however long you like. Then reproduce the art while wearing a blindfold.

Publicly display your work.

I've been planning our art unseen contest for a month but have been swamped with papers and a play and have not had time to run it. That is, until TODAY!

After many texts and phone calls, the "contest" (which wasn't really a contest, because there were no prizes or points) ended up being between just me, Rin, and Mary-Clare. I was hoping to bring in Cody and our non-player friends Saryn and Jeremy, but they were LAME and couldn't make it. ;P My roommate Christine came along and acted as our judge, assistant, and photographer, and a few people came and watched. We made our art in the Wood Center, a big public place, which to my enjoyment meant that I actually got to run into my icky ex-boyfriend and his new lover while wearing a corset. :)

Rin: What does that have to do with anything??

ANYHOO, There were three rounds, each with us attempting to recreate a different picture. Mary-Clare used coloured pencils, Rin used chalk pastels, and I used watercolour pens (which made a HUGE mess). We were all blindfolded and given 3 minutes to draw our pictures. At one point, a woodcenter staff member came over to ask if any of us was using paint, because we weren't allowed to be blindfolded if we were. Christine, like a good task assistant, lied and said we weren't painting. As I painted. And the lady believed her and left us alone. So HA!

After Christine and I got back to our dorm, I remembered the putting the art on display part. So I found an open wall in my dorm and put them up in chronological order, with each of the three artists getting a different row. I also put up our reference pictures and a sign referencing sf0. I think if someone looks at the display, they'll be able to figure out what was going on. :)

Update: It is the last day of dorm living (December 19th) and the art display is still up. Not a single piece has been taken down! :)

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Drawings on Display

On the 3rd floor of my dorm, between the bathroom and the kitchen. They won't stay up there for long, but hopefully they'll brighten someone's day before an RA somehow deems them "inappropriate." The paper at the bottom says "Art Unseen - sf0.org"

Charizard!!

Challenge Number One

Beginning our challenge

Drawing!

Rin's Charizard

Rin's drawing was good. A little TOO good...are you SURE you couldn't see through your hat?? Rin: Very sure.

Mary-Clare's Charizard

She told us that she used to have an art class with a blind kid, so she mimicked his way of finding where on the page she was.

Wooo!

Ta-daaa! Our spectators were greatly amused at our first drawings.

Aurora Borealis!

Challenge Number Two

Beginning round 2

Mary-Clare using her hands

Rin using her hands

I wish I had used a media that I could put my hands on :P

Scribbles!

Exhibit B

Rin kept finding JUST THE RIGHT COLOURS our of her two trillion pastels...hmmm... Rin: I counted them before I put the blindfold on to get a good idea of where they were.

More drawing!