My TwitterArtExhibit 2016 entry

This afternoon my entry to the TwitterArtExhibit 2016 in New York city was entrusted to the postal service.

Here's how it came to be. 

My mother noticed Cat Soper's tweet about sending her entry in. Intrigued we investigated http://twitterartexhibit.org/ further and decided that the opportunity for a little international exposure was well worth the time and effort. Cat's a local artist we got to know through the Blue Gum Art Exhibitions at Ourimbah Public School. @catdezign

To enter you needed a Twitter presence, so @VJCavanagh came into being, and then you first register and then send in an original postcard-sized hand-produced artwork. All the entries get exhibited and the proceeds of each sale go to a charity, with all the artworks for sale at the same price.

We're hoping that my entry gets there by the 11 Mar 2016 deadline.

What to draw?

How about something with those two characters from Tee Off at Knackers Lake? Ok, I'll work on that.

Here's a photo of the drawing after I finally had something I was happy to ink.

Now to start bringing them to life with a bit of colour.

Here's what it looked like after the first series of watercolour washes:

And after the second series of watercolour washes:

It was about this point that it got named 'Highland Golfing'. Our Scot still seems to prefer his robot's arm to the rest of his golf clubs, and one wonders what will happen to our long suffering robot caddy when the fourth bird adds weight to the branch.

​And the final result:

Gee it was hard parting with the original.

Now for the fun of seeing what happens next, and hoping the original finds an appreciative home.