Challenge #9 Create a Portrait of a Townsperson

This one is easy. My portrait is of a well-known sculptor who was also my mentor. The piece captures my friend right down to his signature brass belt buckle and a redbird sitting on his shoulder. Materials: welded steel

Challenge #8 - Sell Yourself

I have an idea for a tattoo that has been rumbling in my brain. So a T-shirt with this.
Probably would get me booted but still...it wants to come to life, so...

Materials: T-shirt, paint Update: The T-shirt thing won't work. Four inches of snow outside...can't spray there. Don't want to be trapped indoors with that smell, so BADGES/PATCHES. Images painted on 100% cotton that contain provocative images which can be sewn to clothing, glued onto notebooks, etc. Versitile Art.

Challenge #7 Fiat - Use car parts

Well there are no random Fiat car parts in my vicinity, so I am going to use the dregs located in my car. (NO it is not a shiny red Fiat.) Materials: map, paper, foil wrappers

Challenge #4 Create a piece based on children's art

I would like to be reflective and see what emerges but there are no 10-year-old children in my life. So I will have to wait until I can find a kid who would up for a collaboration. Maybe I should just go to the elementary school and steal someone's discarded drawing out of the trash.
Okay. I swiped a drawing. Don't know how old the kid is, maybe 5? 7? But look, it is expressive.Snakes.

My piece "Commune Wedding Party, Summer 2011" depicts an actual event. At the outdoor wedding I had left the main dance tent and was walking to my friend's cabin when I saw children reaching into a gunnysack, pulling out sticks, and throwing them into the air. It was twilight, a bit undeciperable like in Camus' "The Stranger." As I neared the children I could see an odd shape to the "sticks." The kids were throwing black rat snakes into the air!
The whole event spooked me and I went home. The next day when I talked to my wedding friend she said the kids found 23 snakes! Normal rural fun, according to her.
This is my documentation of the event.
Materials: paint, canvas, wood

Challenge #2 Use motion

"Cyclone"

Be inspired by the Parkour acrobatics to create a piece featuring motion.

I am thinking energy. I make sculptures. I weld. So my natural choice is a kinetic piece. A swirl. A tornado. Something sucking. Air twisting. A ballet. Dance.

Here's the piece. Steel manipulated from a solid static form to something filled with energy, life. Forward.
Material: steel

Challenge #1 Create art using junky "art" as a jumping off point.

"Forgotten"
The players were lead into a room of questionable art, then asked to use one piece as an inspiration for a piece of your own.
I will choose the Santa painting since that is one that was not chosen by the others.
The box is a commentary on Christmas. Our society makes Christmas a MAJOR celebration of Capitalism. Although the holiday should be about giving we make it more about getting. The most interesting part of the charade is that we rarely remember what we received last year. I did my own little unscientific study and most people cannot recall any of the gifts-either given or received.
The box represents a present and yes, I am using the traditional colors or red and green-gorgeous complimetaries, if used in a vibrant way. Inside are the gifts-hidden and half-remembered.
Materials: vintage handmade box, glass, text from "Scrooge", Comfort bridle pad for horses, cardboard boxes, fiberfil, aluminum balls