“Grand Canyon From The South Rim” by Robert T. McCall | Style Imitating Art

Happy New Year and welcome back to Style Imitating Art 2024! Terri of MeadowTree Style has retired as a co-host for this series so we are currently looking for someone to take her place. If you are interested in joining us, please let me or Salazar know either in the comments, through email, or via social media.

About Style Imitating Art

Style Imitating Art is hosted by Salazar of 14 Shades of Grey and Shelbee of Shelbee on the Edge. Style Imitating Art challenges us to draw style inspiration from pieces of art. Every other Monday, one of the hosts, acting as presenter, selects an inspiration image that they will each post on their blogs. The following Monday, each host shares her art inspired outfit. Participants are invited to submit their art inspired outfits to the presenter by 10:00 p.m. EST on the Tuesday following the hosts’ art inspired outfit posts. The following day, Wednesday, the presenter will share all of the submissions on her blog.

You don’t have to be a blogger to join either! In fact, you don’t even have to join but you can still use the art to inspire an outfit just for the sake of trying something different. If you want to share your inspired outfit, we invite you do so on Instagram or any other social media platform that you prefer. Just be sure to tag Salazar and Shelbee or use #TeamLOTSStyle and #StyleImitatingArt so the hosts know you have joined. Go have some fun in your closets and join the SIA challenge next week!

This Week’s Presenter

It is my turn to choose the first artwork of the new year. I have recently been watching the documentary series How the Universe Works and wanted to feature artwork that focused on outer space. Since I have been participating in these SIA challenges, we styled two other space-themed works of art, the Solar System Quilt by Ellen Harding Baker and the ancient Nebra Sky Disk, and I really enjoyed both of those challenges tremendously.

So I went a-Googling for “space artists” and discovered Robert T. McCall, an American artist who became famous for his space murals. My biggest challenge was choosing just one painting or mural from the huge gallery of McCall’s space art. I ultimately settled on this piece from his Floating Worlds collection because it appears to be a different perspective of the same view of the Grand Canyon that we just featured in the Fifty-Nine Parks Series SIA challenge. I thought that was a fun little way to connect two seemingly unrelated works of art!

The Artwork

“Grand Canyon From The South Rim” by Robert T. McCall

I have not even begun to brainstorm an outfit to represent this painting, but I am really loving the blues and whites and hints of purples that dominate the color palette. I need to clean my closet so I can better see what I have buried in there. January is my closet clean out month…as soon as I get myself motivated!

If you want to be featured with your art inspired outfit in my gallery post on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, be sure to submit your photos to me at shelbeeontheedge@gmail.com by 10:00 p.m. EST on Tuesday, January 16, 2024. 

Happy styling, my friends!

Keeping it on the edge, 

Shelbee

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