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Art Themes - Pecan Festival

The Pecan Festival is fictious, but it is based on several events actually held in Georgia. Georgia has a large agriculture business and is well known as a major supplier of peaches, peanuts, and pecans. I love pecans. In many small farming towns, they like to have annual harvest celebrations. So, the first part of my fictious festival is based on these actual harvest celebrations. These usually involve a lot of food based on the crop -- in this case pecans. They sometimes have a small parade through town featuring the high school band and several small bluegrass or old timey bands.

Also, Georgia is well known as being very traditional and very attached to history. As most Southerners who have many generations born and raised in the South, the plantation era before the Civil War is regarded as the height of Southern charm, grace, and beauty. This is the period shown in the movie, "Gone with the Wind", with Clark Gable. There are social clubs that continue and celebrate the traditions, manners, and charm of this era. These are the classic "Southern Belles". Sometimes, these clubs hold a fancy dance party in which the members and guests wear the fanciest outfits representative of this period. The ladies wear the big hoop skirt dresses with big hats. The men wear Confederate uniforms or formal dress suits of the period.

So, what I have done is combine these two events. I have the festivity of the pecan harvest and the charm, grace, and beauty of the classic Southern Belle.

Additional Information

NOTE:This image is not meant to involve authentic period costumes. It is an event held in the late 1990's where the guests dress in 1850's STYLE clothing. It is the style I'm interested in, not authenticity.

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Specifications

Characters

My Vicki Fox meeting or interacting with your personal or favourite characters. My preference is your personal character(s).

Feeling

The image is supposed to be funny and cute.

Action

There should be interaction between the characters. I really want to avoid a picture of just some characters standing there.

Basically, since I am asking several artists to work on this theme, the end result should seem like a series of candid camera photographs of Vicki as she meets and interacts with other characters at the Festival.

Setting

Outdoors. City park or town square.

A banner that says "Pecan Festival" should be visible.

Tables with food and drink should be shown. After all, this is a harvest festival!

(Optional) A band stand with a bluegrass or old timey string band playing might be nice.

Dialog

Avoid word balloons!

Ideally, the artwork should express humour just from the pose, the action, and the expressions. But, sometimes, a little joke or piece of dialog helps accentuate the joke. If you want to add dialog, please put it at the bottom of the painting, the same way dialog is often shown in single panel comic strips.

Vicki's Clothing

Vicki's outfit is a modest version of the Southern Belle outfit. She should have one of the following: (a) a big hat, with her ears going through the hat so they are visible, or (b) or a parasol (small umbrella).

Vicki's outfit must be various shades of purple with yellow accents.

Vicki's tail goes through the back of the dress.

Other's Clothing

Any female anthropomorphic characters will be in a Southern Belle-like outfit. The exception is when it is part of the joke to have one character inappropriately dressed for the event.

Any male anthropomorphic characters will be in either a Confederate Army uniform or the standard men's formal attire of the time. The preference is the formal attire.

Any foor-foot characters will be shown in their normal mode, but reacting to the characters who are all dressed up.

Image size

The artwork image size should be a minimum 11"x14" in size, with sufficient border for framing.

Medium

The artwork must be paper, full colour with appropriate backgrounds and details.  Any medium may be used -- watercolour, pencil, acrylic, markers, animation cel, or even crayons. Some exceptions have been granted if your ONLY medium is computer colour.