Project Discussion: Chimneys

[Scattykat]

A new project has been announced in the WetCanvas! project system!

Title: Chimneys
Project Leader: Scattykat
Relative Difficulty: Irrelevant
Type Restrictions: Painting
Medium: Any Medium
Subject: Not Applicable
Days open for signups: 30
Maximum participants allowed: 25

Description:

Hi project peeps, dh has been out to check our log store and ensure we'll be warm fer Christmas. It got me thinking of log fires and smokin' chimneys, and what sort of chimneys Santa prefers, so I thought I'd start a new project fer Santa - Chimneys.
Have you ever really looked at chimneys, some of them are so wonderfully ornate, other incredibly ramshackle and rustic. short fat smoke stacks and tall skinny factory pipes, counrty house multiple ones and garden shed tin can make overs. Could go on, but I know you are an imaginative lot. So here goes...

There wll hopefully be 24 small original paintings to do and send off, and there'll be participants all around the world, so postage is a consideration.

PLEASE really think about these facts BEFORE pressing the sign up button.

Please send me your mailing address by the close of sign up, and I will get the list out to all participants asap after that date.

The theme may have a Christmassy tint, let's be reasonable, as long as we aim to get our chimneys finished and mailed by end of Feb 2011, that's 6 months, that'd be fine.

Look forward to seeing you in the thread...

Additional Information:

For more information on the project: Click here!

[Turpintine45]

This sounds interesting but I will be gone for the next month. I have never done a project like this before. Should I sign up now and get the details later? Jen

[Helen]

What a great idea but I don't dare... I'll just have to watch this time

["J"]

Originally Posted by Turpintine45

This sounds interesting but I will be gone for the next month. I have never done a project like this before. Should I sign up now and get the details later? Jen

Should be no problem with you signing up. Just sign up, pm Kat your address, and when you get back, you can get started. You will still have plenty of time.

[Scattykat]

Hiya, wow - that was quick, expected it to be a few days before this project showed up.
Jen I can't really get started on mine for a few weeks either, got a couple of expos coming up, just thought it'd be nice to start a project now that'd keep us busy over the colder months, something to do curled up on the sofa in front of the fire....don't forget chimenys have two ends... stockings hanging from the mantle piece with a hot coals glowing in the grate, oooh I wanna get started now, but must clear the decks first.
24 atc's or postcards, 24 little subjects to seek out, it's like looking for sweeties hidden around yer nieghbourhood . Hope you decide to sign up. you too Jeanne, and Helen, cogitate awhile ...

["J"]

Kat it says the medium is painting. Does that eliminate graphite and cps?

[Turpintine45]

Okay, I didn't think about 24 paintings I thought we would all do one and send it to one person and they would send one to someone else and so on. Not sure I could come up with 24. Have to think about that. Do they all have to be different? Not sure I am creative enough to make 24. I do like that it can be any part of the chimney though. I'm mulling. Would it be too late to sign up at the begining of October? Jen

["J"]

Originally Posted by Turpintine45

Okay, I didn't think about 24 paintings I thought we would all do one and send it to one person and they would send one to someone else and so on. Not sure I could come up with 24. Have to think about that. Do they all have to be different? Not sure I am creative enough to make 24. I do like that it can be any part of the chimney though. I'm mulling. Would it be too late to sign up at the begining of October? Jen

Waiting till Oct would depend if it fills before then. All cards have to be original artwork and one sent to each person on the list who signed up. I don't know if Kat listed just ATC size or not but those are tiny and usually 6 months is plenty of time to do them. If you do one a week, it usually gets the job done.

As I live in a hot part of California and the chimneys are not as plentiful (even the ones here are regulated to burn days and non burn days. and it seems there are more nons and fines if not adhered to). So I will probably go the Google Street Maps route and find mine that way. Otherwise most of the ones I would have to do are just a few bricks on top of a roof and verrrry boring.

[just chaos]

OK I'm in - I will alternate with pet portraits. I dont have a fireplace of my own, but somehow I think I can find a photo or two in my flickr acct.

[Turpintine45]

Okay I will have a go. I'm off to England soon so will look out for chimneys there. Jen

[Scattykat]

hi peeps, and welcome Jeanne, Chaos and Jen.

Jeanne, graphites fine, as are coloured pencils too, just not photographs.

here's a few links to spark the grey cells...

http://www.chimneypot.com/catalogAll.cfm

http://www.coxsarchitectural.co.uk/chimney-pots.htm

http://www.glowimages.com/search/Factory+chimneys.html

http://www.webstockpro.com/Stock-Photos-smoke+stack/

ooh, just thought, boats have chimneys (smoke stacks) too

have fun...

[just chaos]

There are also chimneys in caves (natural) and in volcanoes - if you really want to get technical.

[Scattykat]

oh yeah, wonderful, and on old traction engines too. dh reminded me that in the uk a chimney is slang fer a black eye???

...can anyone think of any others?

["J"]

I read a definition that said a pizza oven is a chimney. The oven is open, air comes in the lower part and the upper part is the chimney where the hot comes out.

[KatV]

Forgive me as a newbie, but I am not sure I understand the project....there is 24 people doing this ultimately and if we sign up we send each a chimney painting? I think that is what I've figured out from reading everyone's post, and the project link doesn't explain it any further. Is this a common project type?

Thanks for enlightening the ignorant