Morning.

Yep.

Steps:

1.  Outer space.

2.  Inner space.

3.  How much time do you have/do you want to take?  This will determine which music you use today to do your drawing to.

a)  Six minutes?  “Printemps qui commence” (“The first of spring”), from Samson et Dalila, by Camille Saint-Saëns:

or b) Nineteen minutes?  “Printemps” (“Spring”), by Claude Debussy:

After you press “Play,” your job is to copy this iconic cover of The New Yorker in as much detail and with as much precision as you can within the time limit.  How do you capture the entire image?

4.  Title: “Soundtrack to Spring,” by Tom Gauld.

5.  Date it.

6.  File it somewhere safe so that we can look at it together later.

Click here to view the cover in a mode where you can hover over each of the measures to music to hear it played!  (Dang: that doesn’t work on my computer; I’m crossing my fingers that it might work on yours…)

See you at 10:00!

PS: The New Yorker covers are eagerly awaited by subscribers and newsstand oglers each week, sometimes for their artistic beauty and their ability to make you sigh wistfully, sometimes for their political or cultural commentary and their ability to make you think.  Click here to see some of the most famous of these covers!