Lucy confuses artists and flowers

Upon reading the task brief, Lucy discards what is presumably her initial idea, which would have been something by Claude Monet (i.e. involving many small, intricate brushstrokes). In the studio, Greg briefly comments on Monet’s bad eyesight being the reason behind some of his most famous paintings, and Lucy then asks about his missing ear. Lucy is, of course, thinking of a different painter: Vincent van Gogh. Greg tries to teach Lucy how to differentiate between the two by using the mnemonic “Mon-eye, and Van-cut-it-off.

During her attempt, Lucy tells Alex that she intends to recreate Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh. Lucy does not use any sort of reference image for this, instead freestyling her drawing one memo note at a time, and saying that she hopes her subconscious will take over (in the studio, Greg refers to this as Lucy having “another existential crisis”).

After a while, Lucy appears to be working quite efficiently, but then she comes to a grinding halt when she realises that she has been drawing poppies, rather than sunflowers.

Unsurprisingly, Lucy’s final product is a jumbled mess, and she jokes that what she’d actually recreated was the version of the famous painting just after the vase had been dropped.

When it is pointed out that she was the only one not to have some kind of system in place beforehand to recreate such a complex image, she explains that she thought the whole point of the task was to do it without using any sort of references.

Greg awards Lucy last place.

(Written by Jenny R and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected by Jenny R and adjusted by David Fuller)