Week 4: Magui's 'International Gnome'

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It seems things are about to get more interesting in the Gnome Art Contest, and I like that.
There’s not much to critique about today’s piece, so I’m just going to start the controversy and head out because it’s Friday, past 6PM and I can’t believe I’m still writing this…
The picture shows a very artistic and abstract version of the gnome, filled with different sights from around the world, also featuring a footer containing greetings in different languages… but the most important part is how good it looks:
The details are way too good for the average Paint user, and rumor has it Magui owns an optical pencil, something you can draw much easier with.
She has been denying this for a while, saying she did not use it, which only makes everything more suspicious.
The painting is definitely awesome, there’s no doubt about that, but we’ll see what everybody thinks about this, and if they believe in Magui, when it comes to voting the best piece.
Now that Nadia is studying some sort of forensic science, maybe she can help us analyze the tracing of the pixels in the picture and determine whether we’re in the presence of a true artist, or a big liar… [DRAMATIC MUSIC] perhaps we’ll never know.
Note: The editor of this blog strongly believes in Magui's statements.

Week 3: Nico's "Gnome Planet"

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It seems there's a new trend going on lately, and it consists in not delivering the art pieces in time, which is fine with me, but I'm sure there are lots of art lovers out there waiting every week and looking forward to friday. Here are some of the excuses that we got from the painters:
- School took up too much time this week
- My new wireless mouse sucks and I can't really draw with it
- My turtle ate my pen drive
Hopefully, they'll start getting more creative with the excuses moving forward...
Going straight to this week's piece: it exposes a very general concept, which is the gnome in the whole world.
The 'space' in the background could have been a little more elaborated, all the stars look the same, it probably took 23 seconds to paint them all: just selecting the 'airspray' tool in paint and then clicking 23 times in different parts of the screen... c'mon, some shooting stars, satellites or UFOs would have been nice dude.
But the gnome looks good. And I think this picture of the gnome is probably from a long time ago, because he has his old nose in it... he must have gone through some kind of rhinoplasty I guess, to evolve into the gnome that we know today. He probably gets more girls now than he did back then.
We'll see what comes next.
See you next week!

Week 2: Maxi's 'Roaming Gnome'

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I don't want to forecast anything yet, specially considering what we learned from the last contest where Nadia brought in an amazing looking Apple Pie and everybody was saying it was going to be the winner no matter what... and in the end, she was the only one without even 1 single vote. She could have at least voted for herself, or ask a friend to vote... or her dog... someone.
Anyway, this week's painting looks very good, but we'll have to wait and see.
It's really hard to find bad things in this painting, and doing critiques on good things is not funny. I mean this picture looks so good that, as you just read, I had to find a way to pick on Nadia instead.... sorry about that Nadia, blame it on Maxi.
The worst part is that when he sent the email with the picture attached he said he "wished he had more time to really put a bigger
effort on this" or something like that... Ok, I'm sorry Donatello.
Besides, we’re pretty sure you’re Dad helped you on this one so don’t brag too much, ok?
In the picture we see a nice looking Gnome, drinking beer apparently in Germany, eating cheese and fishing. Not really sure what the right side of the picture means, maybe we’ll have different opinions, but it seems to be a clearly failed attempt to illustrate the ‘rest of the world’ or something. Last time I checked, my friend Colombus was right and the earth was still a sphere, so that’s not very accurate. Other than that, details in the background look very cool.
Overall, a really hard-to-beat painting. We'll see what the people have to comment.
See you next week!

Week 1: Juli's "The Gnome Came To BA"

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We finally have our first entry. Juli took the first place in the contest delivering his piece of
art called "The Gnome Came To BA".
At first glance the painting displays a large variety of colors wich generates a nice atmosphere, and it is inevitable to trace a paralelism with Juli's colorful cake for the last contest. Clearly, he really likes rainbows.
The gnome has obviously been replaced by a stunt doble for this painting, because he doesn't quite look like the actual Travelocity gnome, but still has nice details and even though we can tell it's a fake gnome, it looks pretty good.
Evidently Juli lost interest at the end because if you notice the two pedestrians that are walking by in the background, they're just doodles, and not very good ones. In fact they scare me a little bit. They look like they've been burnt alive or something.
Another unrealistic thing about this picture is how nice and friendly BA appears to be... Try adding a huge traffic jam and some car smoke, then we can start to get a bit closer to reality. But aside from all this, we're getting a nice piece of art to start our gallery, we'll see what the people have to comment about this.
See you next week!

Contest Kick-off Delayed until April 9th

We had to delay the contest's first entry, due to the first contestant being injured....... I guess.
He claims to be unable to work on his art piece and asures he has medical certification for it.... whatever.
Some say he's just too scared and making up excuses, and some support him and truly believe his story.
We'll have the first entry on April 9th then, since April 2nd is a holiday in Argentina.

Gnome Art Contest!: The Gnome's Trips

Next Friday 26th, we’re starting the Gnome Art Contest!
Each Friday, one team member will expose a painting that will be added to the online art gallery exhibition at www.gnomeartcontest.blogspot.com, and we can all review and comment the entry.
At the end of the contest, we will all vote for the best piece of the gallery, and that one will win the contest.
There are 3 basic rules:
1- We can only use Microsoft Paint installed in our computers.
2- We have to draw everything ourselves and cannot paste any outside images.
3- The artworks have to stick to the following theme: “The Gnome’s Trips”.
On Monday we’ll know who will be the first team member to expose his/her work, so start thinking about yours.