I’m going back to the world of art to do a response to Crimson’s Creative Challenge #142
El Condor Pasa
“Here’s your study for today.”
Art student: “I have to paint that!”
Tutor: “Easy peasy.”
“But it’s so bleak!”
“Then add some interest. A fence, a river, a bird even. Create! Go wild with that brush.”
“If you say so…” He grabs a brush and starts dabbing.
After the last brush stroke, he calls his tutor over.
“How’s this? Ready for the Louvre?”
Tutor: “Um… Definitely unique.”
“I’m calling it, ‘EL CONDOR PASA’.”
“Looks like a robin hunting caterpillars.”
“Robin? Caterpillars! Ouch! We artists are sensitive people you know.”
“Yeah. So I’m here to toughen you up before the critics start firing their big guns. Try again…aim for something more abstract.”
The student grumbles, sets his masterpiece aside and sets another canvas on the easel. Splash, splash goes the brush.
Later…
“How’s this?”
“Definitely better! You’ll be a Van Gogh yet.”
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Great take, Christine! Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder 😉
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Thank you. Beauty and abstract both, I think. 🙂
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True. You’re most welcome 🙂
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I admire his enthusiasm and determination! Keep splashing!
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Thanks for your encouragement. Like the artist above, I’m finding it’s not easy to switch from a realistic to impressionist style. I haven’t attempted abstract yet. 🙂
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I hope you do in time.
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I like the encouragement to bring out the best in the artist. At school I attended art class and in the first year I produced a landscape for the exam, it was declared a master piece – by the teacher and others. I was awarded top marks. In the second year we started on abstract collage which I did not enjoy, I came bottom of the class that year and got thrown off art class for the rest of my school. I found physics instead. Art takes courage.
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I’m with you on that one.Love doing landscapes, but I have no interest in abstract collage. Mine would be a dismal failure, too. 🙂
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What a fabulous response to the prompt, Christine! Love it!
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Thank you. This may be a rather abstract response, but it was fun. 🙂
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Love this. Makes me smile. And I enjoy seeing images given to answer the prompt. 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Thank you! Between me and Paint 3D, we can come up with all kinds of abstract art. 🙂
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I liked it. It was different, unexpected, creative
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I love this, great fun. The enthusiasm of the student is contagious.
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Thank you.
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