Drawing outside the Box

In response to a religious poster-art contest I once ordered for my students, a particular student, Danny, submitted an all-white, completely blank poster. "What the heck is this?" I asked Danny. He explained, "It's the elderly Pope John Paul II wearing his white papal robe and caught in a snow storm while vacationing atop an Alpine mountain." F for visual attractiveness, C for realism/accuracy, A for imagination.

Another student, Frances, displayed her drawing of a passenger airplane. Visible through the side windows were a bearded man and a woman holding a baby; visible through the front window was a clean-shaven man in the cockpit. "And what the heck is this?" I asked Frances. She said, "This is the famous Flight into Egypt mentioned in the gospel. The man and woman and baby here are Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus." "Oh?" I reacted, "and who is this guy in the cockpit?" "That's Pontius the pilot," Frances said. C for visual attractiveness, F for realism/accuracy, A for imagination.

-Old Doc