Fun website
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006I actually found most of these sites weeks ago, but was too busy with the end of the semester to sit down and make a post about them.
First is one of Worth1000’s Photoshop contests, this one requiring contestants to alter a famous(ish) work of art into an advertisement. Ok, so maybe it’s the sort of thing that makes purists cry, but it made me laugh. Some of my favorites are the Shout advertisement using Artemisia Gentischeli’s painting of Judith Beheading Holofernes, Michelangelo’s David as Ronald McDonald (so wrong!), and a painting of Henry VIII’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, as a Mastercard ad (”Keeping your head: priceless”). Some of the entries are fantastic, some are uninspired, but it’s worth checking out if you’d like to waste a few minutes.
I don’t remember how I stumbled across this second link (probably the mixed media forum at WetCanvas, but who knows?), but it’s an art blog post about a really interesting idea: 1″ square collages. Granted, it would probably be a dangerous undertaking for me, given my historic inability to fill an entire sheet of paper with a drawing, but what can I say? I really like working small.
On a mostly unrelated note, I’m adding two more pages to James’ altered book, one for the dance we went to at school at the beginning of the month and one for the spectacular concert we went to see a couple weeks ago (Damien Rice and Swell Season–amazing!). Unfortunately, I left all my paints and brushes at school, so I think I’ll be doing both pages entirely in cut paper. Should be a challege, but I’ll post them here when I’m done with them.
