Art Action: Create a Masterpiece in 5 minutes

It is a little boring to write articles on the subject of art and wait for things to change. I guess just consuming art without creating it must be even worse!  The few people who have written to me and my friends realize the importance of art in life but hit a wall when asked to create something. Keeping this in mind, I have devised an event — it lets anyone create art.

The tool we will be using is a painting utility called harmony by Mr Doob. It is not a regular tool like Paint Brush or Photoshop but a special one — it is impossible to produce something that doesn’t look pretty. You don’t believe me, do ya? Here is something I created in 2 minutes.

Chilling Elephant

Here is another example by Sougat Garai

In a regular drawing tool, the brushes are basic and it takes time and considerable amount of technical skill to bring depth to paintings. This tool offers brushes that have things like shading techniques built into it. So even if you scribble, it comes out in interesting ways.

So I am going to ask each of you to submit your master piece. Here is how you do it:

1. Go to http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

2. Pick a brush at the top, choose a color and start drawing. Try out all the brushes – I found the sketch, shade and square brushes to be great.

3. Play around with the tool. When you are done, press the ‘Save’ button.

4. Right-Click on the painting and save the painting on your machine.

5. The picture is saved as a file with png extension.

6. Mail me the file and I’ll add it the online gallery.