[image_with_animation image_url=”7866″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Connectivity Report, System 1
New work by Claire Putney
Watercolor, burned maps and text on paper
Don’t miss this show, Leaguers!
Reception 1st Thursday, Feb 1, 5:00-9:00
Showing through February
CORE Gallery
117 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA 98104
https://www.coregallery.org/
Do you like these unusual effects? Claire Putney is teaching Alternative Drawing for all levels, a 4 week afternoon class at the League, in which students learn how to make pigments out of plants and minerals, how to initiate oxidation effects, and how to burn, emboss, and work inky patterns into very, very, unconventional layered drawings. She even has tricks for how to stretch and prepare the rag paper. Fun class.
While I was searching for rabbits yesterday I found a rabbit by Lucian Freud, and this Sleeping Cat. I’d seen neither of these before, and thought they were sweet. So unrecognizable as Freuds! Both were made in 1944, when Freud was 22. [image_with_animation image_url=”8842″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”8829″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
Claire Sherman is an American painter currently living and working in New York City. I first learned about her work in a recent Landscapes class with Fran O’Neill. I admired the use of color and form as each brush stroke popped and slid me around the composition. She is a direct painter who, like Sargent, …
Every president of the United States selects art for the White House. As our 44th president, Barak Obama and his family proceeded to select art – borrowed from three museums in Washington: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Gallery of Art – for the family quarters, east …
People posted hundreds of drawings for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at …
Claire Putney’s new drawings at CORE
[image_with_animation image_url=”7866″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Connectivity Report, System 1
New work by Claire Putney
Watercolor, burned maps and text on paper
Don’t miss this show, Leaguers!
Reception 1st Thursday, Feb 1, 5:00-9:00
Showing through February
CORE Gallery
117 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle, WA 98104
https://www.coregallery.org/
Do you like these unusual effects? Claire Putney is teaching Alternative Drawing for all levels, a 4 week afternoon class at the League, in which students learn how to make pigments out of plants and minerals, how to initiate oxidation effects, and how to burn, emboss, and work inky patterns into very, very, unconventional layered drawings. She even has tricks for how to stretch and prepare the rag paper. Fun class.
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