Newcastle art teacher wins Seattle Times’ Peeps contest
June 3, 2010
By Staff
Newcastle resident Mary Watson, who teaches art at elementary schools on a contract basis, won this year’s Seattle Times Peep art contest with her piece, titled “Salvador Peepli — Surrealistic Peeps,” a take on Salvador Dali’s 1954 painting, “The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.”
She entered to get her students involved in art, and she said she tried to get them to enter the contest as well.
Newcastle resident Mary Watson took first place this year in The Seattle Times’ annual Peeps art contest with her piece titled ‘Salvador Peepli — Surrealistic Peeps,’ a Peep-centered re-creation of Salvador Dali's 1954 painting, ‘The Disintegration of the Persistence of Memory.’ There were 384 entries in this year’s competition. The competition began almost 10 years ago.
To make her piece, Watson smashed Peeps with a rolling pin and draped them over tree branches she got from her back yard. She said it was difficult getting the Peeps to stay put on the branch.
“You have to use tape in there to hold them really well,” Watson said.
She then placed the Peeps and branches over a copy of the painting.
“I was kind of thinking if Salvador Dali were alive and he were entering the Peeps contest, this is what he would do. So, that’s what I did,” Watson said.
Her piece took 18 percent of the nearly 2,300 votes used to name the champion.
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