What happens when millions of people stop what they’re doing, and all focus on the same beautiful thing, at the same beautiful time?
Last Monday millions of people across the nation put on their funny glasses, stuck their heads in cardboard boxes, and stood looking up to the sky. For one beautiful unified moment, we all just looked at something (without actually looking at it, hopefully). Millions and millions of personal experiences, spanning across the nation, weirdly and beautifully happening.
We asked Leaguers to send in their profound, their boring, their geeky, their disappointing, their magical, and their funny eclipse experiences. Oh, they sent us it all. Winning entry earned a free class for themselves, or to give to a friend. [heading]LEAGUER’S VIEWS OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE[/heading]
” load_in_animation=”none[heading]OUR FAVORITES [/heading]https://youtu.be/VJjvije3Bw8 “Eclipse Fluidity” by Nancy Coleman (If the preview above doesn’t load, follow this link to watch this gorgeous 22 second video) [image_with_animation image_url=”6168″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Alex Walker’s Bear Astronomy [image_with_animation image_url=”6198″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Kari Boeskov [image_with_animation image_url=”6174″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Cassandra Conner (& mom) [heading]THE BEAUTIFUL WINNING ENTRY[/heading][image_with_animation image_url=”6170″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Congratulations, and thank you for this beautiful entry Caren Goldenberg!
Thanks to all of you for sending in your artful experiences, and one more special mention of Nancy Coleman’s video. Did you catch that link? Don’t miss it. It’s gorgeous.
I’m in Portland, taking a 3-day figure drawing intensive with Fran O’Neill. Saturday was Day 2 of my intensive, and though about mid-day I was cranky, I ended the day on a high. I did not want to stop. I learned a new way of drawing. Isn’t it thrilling that I can draw for so many years, …
In art school, our art history course included a section on German Expressionism, featuring some paintings by Ludwig Kirchner. They looked something like this: Ludwig Kirchner, “Street, Berlin” (1913) I remember not liking them at the time. Expressionism? Everyone’s squeezed in like bristling sardines! The darkness behind the colors, the acidic contrasts, the dampening black, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8162″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] They started as doodles of cups on legal pads, these thoughtful experiments in color and line by Lendy Hensley. The color concepts were inspired by colorist Josef Albers, the linear compositions were inspired by potter Gwyn Hanssen Pigott. Lendy combined the two, plus quite a bit of her own …
Iryna Yermolova was born in Ukraine, and has lived in England since 2005. Her figurative works are illustrative, bold, spontaneous, and colorful. They can be a bit too illustration/pretty for my personal tastes, but they still give me some good inspiration for my own painted figurative studies. [image_with_animation image_url=”3855″ alignment=”center” animation=”None”] The fresh quality of the paint might feel as …
Total Eclipse
What happens when millions of people stop what they’re doing, and all focus on the same beautiful thing, at the same beautiful time?
Last Monday millions of people across the nation put on their funny glasses, stuck their heads in cardboard boxes, and stood looking up to the sky. For one beautiful unified moment, we all just looked at something (without actually looking at it, hopefully). Millions and millions of personal experiences, spanning across the nation, weirdly and beautifully happening.
We asked Leaguers to send in their profound, their boring, their geeky, their disappointing, their magical, and their funny eclipse experiences. Oh, they sent us it all. Winning entry earned a free class for themselves, or to give to a friend. [heading]LEAGUER’S VIEWS OF THE TOTAL ECLIPSE[/heading]
Thanks to all of you for sending in your artful experiences, and one more special mention of Nancy Coleman’s video. Did you catch that link? Don’t miss it. It’s gorgeous.
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