[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.
“…What more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?” – Richard Corliss (1944-2015) Below is an overview of some of the most innovative and influential painters from figurative art history to the mid-twentieth century. Starting in Ancient Greece, through the Renaissance into Romanticism, then Modernism, these artists articulated our view of the human form. Up Next: …
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY ART AND SYMBOLISM [image_with_animation image_url=”6549″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Pride Flags The rainbow flag has changed dramatically since its first hand-dyed creation by Gilbert Baker and his boyfriend Jomar Teng. The original version of the flag had eight colors, each of which stood for concepts including healing, sunlight, nature, and …
I’ve been talking about the the idea that shapes in a composition can be activated to hold each other in place. In this way, there is no background and no object, there is only the interaction of shapes on the surface of the canvas. Everything in the picture holds everything else in place. Intervals I’d …
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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