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The main task is to replicate a famous painting or bespoke image more relevant to the event, with each team taking a pre -selected section of the painting to copy. Using a 4’ x 5’ canvass and supplied paints, water, brushes and aprons each team will have to paint their section, so as to contribute to the finished “The Big Picture”.
We insist that every member has both paint palette and brush in order that everyone contributes.
At first it is interesting to watch the different approaches which people take. Some plan meticulously, some get the paint a la finger painting and splosh it on, others trace then paint. Ultimately however, it dawns on the room that it is an impossible task to achieve merely by completing your own section. For instance, where your canvass butts up to another, do the colours match, Are buildings or people in the painting the same size or in the same place at the edges of the canvasses? Are scales correct and even, do perspectives align? This realisation makes the entire activity start all over and ultimately the room realises that in order to make achieve the objective they will have to work together, rather than as individual teams.
At the end of the activity the canvasses are usually butted to together on the floor so that everyone can see the fruits of their labours. This will create a “masterpiece” of over 16’ high and 20’ wide. However, before the painting can really be judged, the TBT team whisk the frames away and the activity comes to a natural close. The reasons for this will become clear later in this document
Time can then be spent from the stage capturing the behaviours and attitudes of certain teams and the different approaches taken. It is important to pick out the way in which people worked together and to pay reference to how this either does, or doesn’t work in the business arena.
This is a terrific and fun activity which captures the imagination of the delegates and really does throw them together in a very different set of circumstances. For a group of 125 people, we would recommend 20 to 25 groups and the reproduction of 2 paintings. Each group would paint a different segment of the overall picture.
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“ A real masterpiece of an activity! &1dquo;
Tracy Bond |
