If you haven’t seen Wayne Thiebaud’s cakes, his gumball jars, the ice cream cones in rows, you simply MUST check them out. They are what made Thiebaud famous, and with good reason. But don’t look here for gumballs and meringues. They are not here. This post has a few of his sketches, and less common …
The Kodak Model 1 Box camera sold for $25 (about $680 today) with 100 exposures of film preloaded. The artist only needed to point and pull the wire (pre-shutter button). The winding key at the top enabled selfwinding. A camera reload cost $10 (about $250 today). The photographs Breitner took were less static than the …
SAL Challenge Pics More and more and more creative challenges are getting posted online! You can find them by using the hashtags #salchallenge @seattleartistleague. I posted some of my SAL Challenge favorites for week one, and my favorites for week two. Below are my favorite discoveries for week three. The word prompts are erinaceous, agastopia, floccinaucinihilipilification, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9941″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Line drawing by William Anastasi A conversation between League friend and painter Fredericka Foster and composer/musician Phillip Glass has recently been published in Nautilus. Foster and Glass are talking about time. Philip Glass: There are many strange things about music and time. When I’m on a tour with the dance …
Headless Portraits
Victorians combined images from multiple negatives to create portraits known as “Headless Photographs.” (19th century) Not one cracked a smile.
If Victorians had Facebook, would they have posted this?
Happy Halloween!
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