The weekend of the 21st, 22nd and 23rd April, our town celebrated “St. George’s Day Weekend”. Amongst lots of activities for children, like a Treasure Trail, face painting, a fancy dress competition, Punch & Judy, etc., SAG - our Art Group - had an Art Exhibition at the Market Hall.

We took a print of Tintoretto’s “St. George and the Dragon”, cut it into 20 equal sized pieces, and put the pieces in an opaque bag. Then each one of us took one piece from the bag at random. We then magnified our own piece to a bigger scale and painted it in any medium of our choice - and without looking at what the others were doing with their pieces.

The idea was to then assemble all the pieces to recreate the masterpiece. To compare the different artists’ styles, media, palettes… and to hava a laugh while doing it!

So, here are the results. For this exercise, I used “student grade” watercolours. Other artists used acrylic, charcoal, pastel, mixed media and watercolor, of course. Can you guess which section I painted? It sometimes makes me wonder…

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