Art Battle

Went to this last night with my husband and four friends, it was AMAZING, i can’t recommend this event enough for the artsy or totally not artsy type! It’s an awesomely interactive experience, the cheering crowd, the loud thumping music, the DJ spinning awesome tracks that will get your heart racing, the enthusiastic MC! It gets really intense, the artists laugh and cry, joke with the audience, some artists crack under the pressure while some chat to the cameraman while spinning their canvases!

This is such a cool idea. I’ve never been someone who really appreciates art, at least not like some others might. I look at a piece and move on, but I can’t really appreciate the work that goes into it — probably because I’ve never been any good at drawing or painting. Seriously. I can barely even draw a stick figure.
Enter Art Battle, a competitive show where art is created as spectators look on. When I was there, there were 3 rounds and 4 names were drawn for the first two; the third was a showdown. The artists took their places at one of the easels in the centre of the room with the paper facing outward towards the audience. They had 20 minutes to create. Walking around easels and seeing how each picture evolved gave me a new respect for the artistic process. At the end of the round, the audience votes on their favourite piece, and that artist moves on to the final round. All of the pictures are put aside for silent auction, starting at $ 40.
I am sad to say that I missed the best part. At the end of the night, it is rumoured that any painting that doesn’t manage to reach that $ 40 minimum bid gets destroyed. By chainsaw.
Enough said.