Welcome to the first faves fresh from the henhouse of this year’s 30SAL Creative Challenge. On January 1, 2022 we asked you all to make a self portrait with an egg, and you did eggzactly as we requested. We found more than 8 dozen hard boiled, cracked, and a few scrambled, all served to Instagram and Padlet with #30SAL. Here are a few of our favorites.
…and three eggs scrambled with nuts.
(Autumn, you nailed it)
Tip: Some of you had awesome eggs, but terrible photos. Listen up! A bad photo of great art wins no prizes.
Thanks for your contributions everyone. More selections from the first days of our 30 day challenge posted soon!
Between 1914 and 1917, Matisse made a series of 69 monotypes, the only monotypes of his career. Matisse created his black-and-white monotypes by covering a copper plate with black ink and then lightly and swiftly scratching into the pigment with a tool, so that the linework emerged through the dark ink ground. To transfer the …
I was interested in learning how to better see and describe what makes Charity Baker’s drawings and paintings so captivating, and she gave me a list of her teachers from the New York Studio School. Goldmine! I posted drawings by her teacher Barbara Grossman yesterday. Today I found drawings by Stanley Lewis. Although the two …
Today’s post is from special guest star Anne Walker. Anne majored in Fine Arts with a focus in painting at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT in 1989. She started taking classes at the League a couple of years ago. I met her in Fran’s Giant Figures workshop in February 2020 (shortly before our classes went online). …
Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is an American artist who works in sculpture, photography, drawing and film. His early works are sculptural installations combined with performance and video. He’s an ex-partner of Bjork. He did some weird stuff. And some more weird stuff. But I’d rather not talk about that stuff today. I’d …
One Dozen Egg Heads #30SAL
rachelwilch
Felt eggcellent
Welcome to the first faves fresh from the henhouse of this year’s 30SAL Creative Challenge. On January 1, 2022 we asked you all to make a self portrait with an egg, and you did eggzactly as we requested. We found more than 8 dozen hard boiled, cracked, and a few scrambled, all served to Instagram and Padlet with #30SAL. Here are a few of our favorites.
…and three eggs scrambled with nuts.
Tip: Some of you had awesome eggs, but terrible photos. Listen up! A bad photo of great art wins no prizes.
Thanks for your contributions everyone. More selections from the first days of our 30 day challenge posted soon!
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