The brief:
Seeing Patrick33's entry in last week's Challenge made me remember something I came across recently - a version of Escher's famous staircase drawing, made entirely out of Lego. It's an astounding piece of work, that must have taken tremendous care and patience.
It all would have been much easier in Photoshop, of course. Or would it? Just how difficult would it be to recreate this sort of perspective illusion? The tricky part is making the finished article look plausible.
No starting image this week - so Google away!
Finished work:
The original:
The brief:
I'm indebted to Josephine Harvatt for this week's image - it's a scene she photographed at the Psycho Buildings exhibition at London's Hayward Gallery. The woman taking her son for a boating trip could do with a better environment, Josephine thinks - and I have to agree with her. Could we come up with a more appealing location than a London rooftop?
Finished work:
The original:
The brief:
When I was in Derby museum recently, I spent some time in a room devoted to the Victorian painter Joseph Wright of Derby. For those who don't know him, his most notable work is the fantastic Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump, which is a masterpiece of light and shade.
The room in the museum was full of his portraits - which are, I'm sad to say, mediocre. This one was painted fully 20 years after the Air Pump picture that made his name, yet the subject chose not to allow Wright to do the style he did best, and instead to paint a standard, uninspired work.
But what if Wright had been given his head on this one? How might this below average portrait have looked with some dramatic lighting? Anyone feel like reaching for the oil paints?
Finished work:
The original:
The brief:
Another train image from the Derby museum this week. Here's a model railway that's in the process of being built. According to the curator, the houses are first mocked up in cardboard for size and shape, then these are sent to model makers to have them recreated as perfect miniatures.
Can we help the modelmakers finish this job? Anything else we can do to make the scene more realistic?
Finished work:
(a bit basic due to lack of time!)
