365 Days of Art: Colour on Concrete

346. Colour on Concrete

It's been a very long while since I've posted a picture for the 365 Days of Art challenge (which I took as 365 themes in a year, rather than one each day), but that doesn't mean that I haven't been drawing anything. In fact, I've probably created more in the past three months than I did over the past year! With that in mind, I decided that it's about time that I started updating this blog again, however infrequently it might end up being.

That brings me to today's challenge theme: 346. Colour on Concrete

Whilst sitting in the garden after filming a gloriously iridescent beetle (there will be more about that little wonder in another post), I found some pavement chalk sticks and decided to try drawing with them. 

The colours were limited to reddish pink, yellow, green, blue, and white, and the sticks were thick and chunky, which didn't exactly make them perfect for the uneven concrete, but I did my best. It was actually a lot of fun and so I continued adding one additional drawing each day over a week and a half. Sometimes it rained and the pictures were washed away, but that just made more room for something new.

The first picture didn't go so well...

Visions of the Future

Mondoshawan costume from and a poster for
The Fifth Element

In 2009, I had the pleasure of attending an exhibition of science fiction items at Torquay Museum, called Alien Invasion, containing all manner of wonderful things from films and television series Alien, Predator, Forbidden Planet, Mars Attacks!, Star Wars, Terminator 3, Robocop, The Abominable Snowman, Hellraiser, Doctor Who, The X-Files, Invaders from Mars, and V. It was wonderful and since then, I've hoped that there would be another, similar event that I could attend. (Of course, I did go to LonCon 3 last August, which is a massive science fiction and fantasy convention, but I'll just ignore that right now, haha). 

Anyway, my wish was finally granted and from the 27th of June this year there has been a new exhibition called Visions of the Future. Yesterday, I went along to see it and was certainly not disappointed! 

Props, costumes & posters from
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
and I, Robot

This time, the items on show were from/relating to: Alien, Prometheus, Predator, Frankenstein, Metropolis, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Andromeda, The Fifth Element, Star Wars, Back to the Future, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, I, Robot, Moon, Ultraviolet, Children of Men, Chariots of the Gods?, Chronicles of Riddick, and there was even a prototype of the Beagle 2 lander as well.

General Utility Android costume from Andromeda,
with a design inspired by the "Robotrix" from Metropolis
(film poster behind)

Most of the items were either on loan from other museums / institutes or from private collectors, so it was quite a random assembling of artefacts, but that just made it all the more fun to look around. Also, even though there was a lot to see, the museum is small enough that you have time to read the accompanying information boards, take photographs (without flash, as per the rules, of course!), and look at everything as much as you want before moving onto the next piece, which was really nice. 

Visions of the Future is running until the 5th of September, so if you have a chance to see it, you absolutely should! More photos below: