Deirdre Sullivan-Beeman is a surrealist figurative artist, based in Los Angeles. This work is titled Orphic Egg Girl, a wood panel painted with oil and egg tempera.
Tempera is a painting medium, often consisting of, yes, egg yoke. As a painting medium, egg tempera is long lasting, very long lasting. Artworks painted with egg tempera in the first century survive to this day. You learn something new every day. And who knows, people may still looking upon Orphic Egg Girl two thousand years from now.
Originally published Thursday 30 March 2017.
Lena Macka is an illustrator and designer of minimal tattoos, who is based in the French city of Lyon. She seems to work mainly in black and white, and shades of grey, but look through her illustrations, and you will see some colour works.
Originally published Tuesday 21 March 2017.
Astronomy geeks will love this. 3D printed models of the planets, and moons, of the solar system, made by George Ioannidis of the Little Planet Factory (Internet Archive link). Above is an image of Earth posing with Jupiter, and a sans-rings Saturn.
You can also order the Sun. And the three stars of the Alpha Centauri, and Proxima Centauri system, our nearest neighbours in interstellar space. Or the Moon. Or Mars, when it once had oceans.
Originally published Wednesday 8 March 2017, with subsequent revisions, updates to lapsed URLs, etc.
