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Transmundane Tuesday and Alice Neel

Transmundane Tuesday

Hi Slowpokes. It’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means it’s transmundane Tuesday. Here are your prompts for the month of June:

Draw this and, if you’d like to share your work, post it on Instagram and tag it #bearinahatandachair and #transmundanetuesdays.

If you are new to this, you can find out more here. If you’d like to see what people did with last month’s prompts, that’s over here.

Arts & Entertainment

In other news, I saw the Alice Neel exhibit at the de Young museum in San Francisco and it was electrifying. She’s known as a portraitist, but one of my favorite pieces was a cityscape.

I like the gentle list of this white building, and the shadow cast on it, which seems very human.

I did some drawing at the de Young. If you’ve never spent a day drawing in a museum; if it’s been a while (it had been for me); if you need some inspiration: I recommend it. If you can somehow make it to this extraordinary Alice Neel show, all the better. But any museum with something to look at and a place to sit works for me.

I spent a lot of time with this incredibly charged painting and think that the thin sliver of light between their nearly-touching knees might be the most potent part of it. Even more potent than the yellow underpants.

This exhibit was inspiring in a thousand ways but do you know what I keep coming back to?

This photo of Alice Neel at 80, merrily posing with her nude self-portrait.

Happy June, folks!

Love,
Carson

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