[Bertrand]

Hi !

I started a funny game with some of my closest friends.
The idea is to describe a painting you appreciate for a reason or another. Depict it as precisely as you can. Then give that description to a friend who never saw the original painting. Let him (her) paint, cut, paste, to produce something that would fit the description.

I intend to go further on and move to photographs. Later on during spring.

Exemples :

Caravagio gave this :

 

 

And Rubens this :

 

 

Anyone here willing to try?

[ALIEN ANAL]

i really dig this idea, So you just describe the painting to another person and they have to try recreate it?

[Bertrand]

That's it.
Write the description down. Don't spend too much time - or it will bore you, and then : post it.
Give the artist(s) a whole week to think of a way to get as close as possible to what you saw.
Then next week someone else, the first artist to post his/her piece, writes a new description for the board, unless he/she doesn't feel like it - if that's the case, he/she will have to mention it in his/her message.

[ALIEN ANAL]

and im guessing we would tell the describer if we already know that peice of art?

[Bertrand]

Yes that'd be obliging. If you know it, PM the person who described the picture, don't post names and titles on the board, so that others could enjoy the challenge.

Well, we may start with this :

This one is a figurative painting. The canvas is twice as wide as it is high.
The scene takes place by a brook. The brook runs from the left of the background (where it is a bit hidden by the left bank as the quiet water makes a loop) to the righ before turning to exit on the left, just a bit above the south-west corner of the painting. Streaks of pale blue water due to the light. The left bank is covered with pale green grass. Brown-orange touches.
The right bank is covered with the same grass. The brown-warm-orange hues are more precise there : they are parts of the ground where nothing grows.
At regular intervals grow small trees (10 or more). They ain’t sequoias. They are quite frail and, due to the format of the painting, you only see the trunks. One character has her left hand on one of these trunks, and it is as thick as a wrist.
This character stands in the water, on the left. She’s young and naked. She’s bending forward as if she was about to look at the second character, a boy lying on the ground, on the right.
The girl’s body is pale. Two close trunks hide partially (very partially) her nudity. So she’s “cut” in two by these trunks. On the left you can see her butt and the upper part of her thigh. You can also see her right elbow.
On the right part, you see the rest of her body. Her right hand clutching a liana, her small breast, her face, her left arm, her left hand on a thin trunk. This hand is very close to her face. You see her right profile. She’s a redhead (not a violent red). Her rather long hair hangs but can’t cover her breast though. She’s got something in her hair, the dark green leaf of a water lily, held by a yellow thread. You can guess her crotch and see part of her upper left thigh.
She stands as if she was trying not to make any noise, and she’s squinting about, to see if there’s really noone there but the sleeping boy.
This boy is almost naked. A cloth (leopard dainted) covers him from his hips to the top of his thighs. He’s on his left side. His left arm lies parallel to the canvas. He has folded his right arm behind his head. His skull touches the bottom of a tree (the thickest and darkest of the painting). The boy has short brown hair. His skin is not as pale as the girl, but he never got a tan. His legs. He has two legs. Yes. That’s unbelievable, but that’s the way it is. You can see his right leg in its whole, from the thigh to the toes. His left leg, well, all you can see of it is the thigh.
One last thing: there’s a flower by his left shoulder. Could be a small daffodil. Two smaller flowers have grown by this one.

Well, this is it. Good luck !

[Bertrand]

Originally Posted by Bertrand

 

 

We moved to taking pictures based on "our" art.
It took us too many months to mention, as most of us are extremely lazy.
For this one, here's what we got :

 

[Bertrand]

Originally Posted by Bertrand

 

 

This one lead to this :

 

[Bertrand]

 

gave that...

 

which lead to this...

 

[Bertrand]

And that one...

 

morphed into that horror...

 

that turned out to become this...

 

[ALIEN ANAL]

ahaha this is excellent well done