Ryan Feddersen
The Bumber By Number art exhibit at Bumbershoot featured an installation by artist Ryan Feddersen, creating a fully immersive interactive audience participatory paint-by-number homage to Edouard Manet's "The Picnic" ("Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe").
Ryan's detailed original art in black and white covered a three dimensional wall 8'x36'.
A detail of Ryan's mural art installation
The method for the public audience of artists to color and finish the mural art was as follows:
The method for the public audience of artists to color and finish the mural art was as follows:
The welcoming table had color swatches that "guests to the picnic" chose from. The guest takes their color swatch reference to the installation's picnic blanket, which has baskets of food which correspond in color to the color swatches. With that food, the participant finds the number on the wall mural corresponding to the number on the swatch, and becomes the artist creating the picnic environment.
The numbered color swatches corresponding to the colors of the "food" in the picnic.
The "food" Ryan created to finish her project is in actuality melted crayons cast in molds she made from real food. Each cast crayon piece is an individual hand made piece of art. It's uncanny likeness to real food adds a surreal element to the fun creation which develops over the course of the three day festival.
The picnic food items in the baskets are all individual pieces of art cast from melted crayons into Ryan's molds from real food. The detail fooled many people into thinking they were looking at real food.
Bridget was one of the first picnic guests to begin coloring with the food. She chose a perfect asparagus stalk to add her touch to the project.
Getting Ready
The Picnic scene
The picnic was a bounty of several baskets of food
The eager crowd participates on Saturday getting the weekend project off to a good start
Working and blending into the picnic environment installation
Working on Saturday
Artist, Laurie Lee Yockey Brom stops in to work on the picnic with a green pear slice
Everyone who saw the exhibit wanted to work on the picnic scene
Coloring with the number ten pink swatch meant that you'd be coloring with a slice of ham
Those pink ham slices are so good for fleshing out some details
Saturday evening - Pretty good for Day One progress
Sunday evening - Day Two progress
Monday evening - Day Three
Yummy picnic scene
Beet it!
Q13FOX News Anchor, Bill Wixie joins the picnic with a slice of green pear, getting some of those hard to reach upper area efforts on Labor Day.
Young and old, big and small alike, loved the interaction with Ryan's "Picnic" scene installation.
Max, Micah, and Lucas join in the fun
Conscientiousness is the trait of being painstaking and careful,
especially in the making of true art from the soul.
Shelora, Bill, Ryan, Marlow and JoDavid call it a wrap on Labor Day evening at the end of a successful Bumbershoot Visual Art Show Event.
We had a blast!
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