Creative challenge: iso-art at home

It’s time to dust off your water colour palette, fire up your camera or simply pick up a biro and get down a quick sketch! While most of us are all working and schooling from home in isolation, the Chau Chak Wing Museum team invites you to have an artistic moment with us, pausing the uncertainties of our current environment to spend some time engaging our creativity. We’ll provide the inspiration from our collections: vibrant artworks, natural history creatures and ancient treasures from all over the world. This challenge is open to all ages and creative inclinations.

1. Choose a collection item from below to inspire your artwork
2. We've suggested some themes below. Your work can either recreate the original image, or be inspired by it.
3. Get making: any medium, any method. Your response could be a drawing, a photo, collage, creative writing, origami, painting, baked goods or anything you can dream up!
   
4. Post your iso-artwork on social media with the hashtag #isoartsydney or email your work to museum.communications@sydney.edu.au
5. We’ll share our favourite entries on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook

Egyptian tile with a man leading a dog

Themes to respond to:

• Your pet
• Daily walks 
• Line drawing 
• Scale (the dog is much larger than the person!) 

Untitled (Still life with toothbrush)

Themes to respond to:

• An arrangement of items found within your house 
• The bathroom cupboard
• In-situ household clutter
• Still life drawing or painting

Interior at the hearth

Themes to respond to:

• Life at home during lockdown 
• Isolation cooking and baking
• Now vs then: how Australian homes have changed in 100 years
• Household relationships 

Jamaican Citrus Root Weevil

Themes to respond to: 

• A new appreciation of nature 
• Your garden 
• The weevil's humbug patterning 
• Scientific illustration