1. "Trees in the Park" by Leonid Afrimov | 2. "Sunflower field" by Vitali Komarov 3. "Landscape with Green House" by Wassily Kandinsky | 4. "Palms in Color" by Erin Hanson
All Prizes are Kumiho colored by Cerl Temius
Opens: February 1st Closes: February 14th, 10 PM EST Judges: smolderingskies, Cerl Temius
A friend has set you up on a blind date at the local art museum. And some of the world's most famous Impressionist artists are being displayed in a visiting exhibit! You're given the name of a painting to meet by for the date.
How this works:
Pick a painting to meet your blind date under. Pick a kid of yours that is junior age or older to enter with! You must provide your cert. If you have no characters yet, you may use an approved quest or an NPC. Using the form provided below, describe your character getting ready for the blind date and arriving at the painting. Your entry may be no more than 1500 words long.
[b]Username:[/b] [b]Painting #:[/b] [b]Cert of Kid Entering:[/b] must be junior or senior!
[b]RP Entry:[/b]
Rules:
This contest is completely free. Please use the form provided. Anyone may enter, whether they are a newbie or not! Staff MAY NOT enter this contest! Whining, guilt-tripping, or generally misbehaving over the contest will result in you being disqualified. Make sure you've read the Guide to the Worlds forum in its entirety! You may not gift or trade prizes from this event. You may not proxy for another person.
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:18 am
Username: belladonna snow Painting #: 1 Cert of Kid Entering:
RP Entry:
Ada started to feel butterfly in her stomach when she read her message. She couldn't believe that she would do something so daring. If it wasnt for her friend begging her to do this she would be on the couch watching TV. Instead she has to pick a outfit and make sure it is suitable for the occasion. Ada looked through her closet. The only thing left was winter clothes and empty hangers. She turned around and noticed all of her clothes where all over her bed. She flops down fave first on the pile of clothes. " ug what am I supposed to wear." She mumbled to herself. She rolled over and stared at the ceiling until she realized that her mother had a closet full of beautiful gowns. Ada tiptoed to her mother bed room trying to make a sound. She quietly opened the door and quickly slide in. She just noticed that she was holding her breath and she breathed out in relief. She opened her mother closet door and so many beautiful gowns . She didnt know what one to pick. She wanted to seem mature but also elegant. Then she remembered that her mother had a beautiful black dress that came down to the knees. Ada looked really hard for this dress and right before she gave up she finally finds it. Ada quickly left her mother room and ran into her bed room. Ada put on the silky loose black dress. Ada loved it. She felt like a adult and she felt very beautiful. Ada left her beautiful blond hair down but something was missing. Then looked over and her mother was smiling. In her mother hand was pearl earrings. Ada hugged her mother. She put the earring in and pushed some of her hair to one side to show one of the pearls. "Perfect." She to herself. When she arrived to the museum the butterfly in her stomach became worse. she wanted to turn around right as she start to turn around she see her reflection in a black window. She was stunning and she couldn't believe she was this beautiful. She changed her mind and was going to be brave. She walked into the building and there was so many others there. How would she know how she was meeting and how would they know it was her. The butterfly where starting to act up. She looked at all the panting as she walked to the painting called "Trees in the park." She finally arrived. The painting was absolutely stunning and she stared at all of the colors. She stood there staring at the painting thinking about what it would be like living in the painting as she waits for her date.
Username:Onewintersnite Painting #: 2 Cert of Kid Entering:
RP Entry:
A message came through stating:
Quote:
“I’ll meet you by the Sunflower field paint by Vitali Komarov at 12:30.”
Coralynne wasn’t sure how she had managed to get herself into this. Somehow her friend had convinced her that this would be fun and the person she would soon mean was perfect for her. You could always say your sick, her muse said truly trying to help her come up with an out. No, she needed to get out and do stuff, fun stuff. Picking an outfit form her closet was easy and it didn’t take her much time to get dressed. She wore her favorite pink sweater and teal pleated mini skirt. This was her go to outfit when she wanted to look good and feel comfortable. It however took way more time for her to deal with her hair; no matter how hard she tried to make it flat one strain or another always went astray. Giving up on her hair with a big sigh, Coralynne grabbed her bag and headed out the door to meet her price charming.
Coralynne walked through the door of the local art museum. Paintings of different types covered the walls, but she was looking for one painting in particular. A guide stood at the information desk pointing people in this direction or that direction. Walking up to the desk, Coralynne asked for direction to the painting she was to meet her date at. The guide smiled brightly and gave her the direction she needed. Heading off Coralynne checked the time. It was 12:15pm, she had plenty of time to find that painting. Now that she was here her nerves were really starting to flutter. You could still say you are to sick, her muse said as if this was a better choice then staying. Would you stop we are already here, scolded her muse.
Arriving at the painting, Coralynne checked the time again. Only 5 minutes had pasted since the last time she had looked. With nothing else to do but look at the painting she now stood in front of, Coralynne began to study the painting. It was very beautiful in the simplicity and yet this painting was anything but simple. There was so many colors and shades of blues and greens. Then the wonderful pop of yellow seemed to jump from the canvas. She studied the paints secrets as she waited for her blind date to arrive.
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 1:19 am
Username: belloblossom Painting #: 3 Cert of Kid Entering:
RP Entry:
At this point, Renee was starved for affection. She'd been doing everything she could to try to reach out and blind dates were certainly not beneath her. She'd signed up, ready to strike a match. Just getting that far had been exciting and they hadn't even met yet! She didn't know what they'd look like or who they were... it wasn't called a blind date for nothing!
With excited energy running through her, she had gotten herself all dolled up that morning, trying to look like her cutesy, cupcake-loving self. She'd even tried to curl her hair more than usual, with mild success. Still, she'd determined that she was more than pretty enough and had left to go to the local art museum. She'd gotten a message that they'd be meeting by a painting called "Landscape with Green House" by someone called Wassily Kadinsky. She asked a one of the attendants there to help give her directions to the painting and then waited in front of it for her date to arrive.
As she looked at it, she found herself drawn to the house that the painting was titled after. She would like that, she thought. A little house out in the landscape like that. Maybe she could build a small patio out from it and make a small cafe to serve her cupcakes too. It could be like a picnic in the midst of nature, but with chairs and tables and things! So enraptured was she in this dream of hers, blossoming from the sight of the painting, that everything else seemed to fall away.
Username: SSBrosB Painting #: 4 Cert of Kid Entering:
RP Entry: Benedict, or Benny, for short, looked at his phone again at the note that had been made on it. He was to meet… whoever it was that he had been “paired” up with at the “Palms in Color” painting at 9AM. He frowned a bit as he put away his phone and wandered into the museum. He hadn’t really cared for dating anyone, had expressed no desire to do so, and yet his fellow coworkers had decided that he needed to “get out” and go on a date. As their manager, he thought about firing the lot of them, but when he had heard that the café inside of the museum was supposed to be quite good… well he couldn’t pass up the opportunity to try new food, even if that meant he had to pay for it.
Still, he was not the type to go out and look for love. He liked to go at his own pace. If someone wanted to go out on a date with him then that was fine, but he wasn’t going out and purposefully looking for any kind of relationships. He was fine without them, and he got to go out and do what he wanted when he wasn’t working at the breakfast restaurant. So why did he have to get roped into such things? Were others really this desperate for some drama or gossip or just something to talk about him? His annoyance flared up again. He would at least be giving all of them warnings.
He wandered around a bit, looking at all of the art that the museum had to offer. He just couldn’t understand what all of the fuss was about, but he could appreciate that some of them looked pretty good. He was just about to pass by another painting, barely giving it a glance except for the clouds in it but stopped when he realized it was the “Palms in Color” painting that he was supposed to meet his blind date by.
And it looked like no one else was around. Perhaps if he were lucky, then the other wouldn’t show up and he would be free to go and sample the café himself without being bothered by another? That would be a dream come true. Though he really didn't want to admit it, he truly was nervous about this whole thing. He had hoped, during all the days before that he had to wait and the few hours he had been awake this morning, that his blind date would cancel on him. That way he wouldn't have to embarrass himself in front of them. He sighed. It would be too good to be true anyway.
The painting did catch his attention though. The clouds mostly, but he could definitely see himself there. The palm trees surrounded by them sometime during sunset… if he could find somewhere like that to go and make his own little breakfast café then he would be set for life! Still, he didn’t really like the bottom of it. It was too dark. Perhaps just a painting of the trees and clouds would have been better?
He found himself lost in thought and didn’t realize that there was someone approaching him…
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:46 pm
Username: Random Nobody 13 Painting #: 1 Cert of Kid Entering: RP Entry:
Pepper fiddled with her hair. The long strands had been pulled back into a decorative bun adorned with flowers. Small traces of make-up brought out her eyes and brought a bit more color to her cheeks. It had taken far far longer than she'd expected to get the soft lipstick to glitter just right and even longer to pick out an outfit: a high-waisted skirt with several layers of petticoats underneath and a crisp pastel pink button-up blouse, thigh high socks and slightly heeled shoes. Some accessories here and there had been draped on her by her roommate, something about needing things to tie it all together, but everything else had come from her own closet.
Even with how long she'd dithered making decisions for the date, she'd managed to get there with some time before the actual start time for the date. So she was left to fiddle with herself. The painting had held her interest for only a brief time. It was nice to look at, certainly colorful and whimsical, but she just couldn't focus on it. Her roommate had been the one to set this up and she'd been tight-lipped about the who's and what's.
Pepper knew that they'd be meeting at this painting in, she checked the time, three minutes. She knew that the both of them were hoping to strike up something at this date. But details like what gender they were or what they looked like or even what race they were had been withheld. Based on some things her roommate had said, she thought they might be a kumiho but that could just be her pulling her tail.
Taking a deep breath, Pepper slapped her hands against her cheeks and exhaled slowly. She had to think less about what they looked like and change her focus to thinking about this as a meeting with a friend. A new friend who she was thinking about dating. Oh maybe she should have brought a drink? A drink for the two of them to sip? Wait no, they couldn't have drinks in the museum. They could go afterwards to a cafe or something. . .if things went well here?
Just as her train of thoughts started to take off without her, Pepper felt a couple taps on her shoulder. She turned to see who wanted her attention and sucked in a surprised breath.
