Sunday, June 5, 2011

Behold! A childish art competition

My students have donated a stockpile of art to me and the more I look through it and contemplate it, the more I realize that children are artistic geniuses. Sure, they lack eye-hand coordination and aesthetic know-how, but they more than make up for that with their artistic inhibition and abounding imagination. Child art is cool for a lot of the same reasons that a 5-minute MS Paint artwork is cool -- the bar is set so low that you can forgive the tackiness and embrace the wackiness of the art.

So in honor of these little artists, I announce a 2-week "Child Art Competition" starting immediately and ending on Sunday, June 19th. Art that you submit to this competition should be drawn as poorly as possible (use the mouse with your left hand if you're a righty, or just get really drunk, then draw). You can either create your artwork from scratch, draw an artwork you remember from your childhood, or enhance and re-post art from PA-G's child art stockpile. Then tag it with "child art" to enter it into the competition (you can make more than one submission). May the most childish artwork win!

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