Elizabeth Malaska, Still Life on War Rug, 2016, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and graphite on canvas (2017)
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
Elizabeth Malaska, They Took Me and Split Me Open From Scalp to Crotch, and Still I’m Alive, and Walk Around Pleased With the Sun and All the World’s Bounty, 2011, oil, gesso, charcoal & pencil on tea-stained canvas, 60 x 47″
Elizabeth Malaska, Maidens, 2019, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and pencil on canvas, 60×84″
Lendy and I met this evening and painted little studies in preparation for the upcoming workshop Paint like Alice Neel. We had League model/instructor Mark MacKenzie dress up in a suit and tie, and sat him in my new (old) green chair. It’s shabby and low to the ground, so he looked angular and awkward, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) …
Day 12: George Washington The instructions were to finish an unfinished portrait of George Washington. If you’ve gone into instagram or padlet and searched for #30SAL, you have probably seen some of the fabulous contributions from artists like you. From out of the dozens of interesting artworks responding to this challenge, here are a few. …
Elizabeth Malaska
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
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[image_with_animation image_url=”7749″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Make ink blots by applying paint, ink, ketchup (or anything else around) in a random pattern, then immediately folding and pressing the paper in half. Open the paper back up, and tell us what you see. Share photographs of your Rorschachs and what you see in them (and in others’) …
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