Blown Away Art Challenge 3/5
I’m here with a fun extension of the Netflix glass-blowing competition show – Blown Away. Watching the show gave me wild ideas of finding a glass-blowing studio and filling my home with amazing handmade glass! When I got serious with myself (and the logistics!) I realised that fantasy firmly falls in the ‘probably-not-likely-to-eventuate’ realm!
I wanted to make sure the creative fire, lit by the show, was still put to good use! The aim of this post is to allow us to join in on the weekly challenges, no matter what creative realm we play in 🙂
1) Watch an episode – pausing once the judges explain the theme. Allow around 15 minutes to come up with an idea – this is based roughly on what appears to happen on the show!
2) Complete the challenge before watching the rest of the show but if you want to watch the show first I promise I won’t call you out for cheating 🙂
3) Try and stick to the time length given on the show
“Next challenge is all about going big – for this challenge, you must scale up your item to 12 inches minimum.”
A very sculpture-specific challenge this week so to make it accessible to other creative forms I’m changing the challenge to simply be:
“Play with scale!”
The contestants were each given an object from the list below but you can choose your favourite and choose to incorporate as many as you want 🙂
Objects:
knight chess piece
thimble
caramel popcorn
pimento olive
pushpin
dice
Length: 5 hours
Evaluation Criteria: Size/Technical Skill/Realism
Season three, episode five, had resident judge Katherine Gray, alongside visual artist and sculptor, Briony Douglas. Since all of the judging criteria this week were based on execution there was a lot of comment on the ability to achieve scale and accuracy. Those that received a negative critique were those that didn’t get the colour, shape, size, or details quite right.
My own critique: Super hard to critique this week since it was based on the glass artists doing an accurate replicate. I really liked how my piece came together, although the painting only took around 30 minutes so I’d subtract points for taking the quick route 😛 If I really used my five hours I would have done a huge piece of 100 tiles with different sections on each tile, placed together in a mismatched arrangement.
