We received a second postcard from Thailand! Nikki Barber, the League’s printmaking instructor is spending one month as a studio-based artist in residence at Rajamangala University in Chiang Mai. There, she is able to interact directly with students, faculty, and Thai artists, experiencing the technical differences between Seattle and Chiang Mai printmaking techniques.
Nikki sent us another “postcard” via email. Look at her apron. The Seattle Artist League is now officially international!
The international workshop is fantastic! I have been able to crank out some work I’m proud of in an incredibly short period of time. I also have had the pleasure of giving a demo on my process to students at Rajamangala University of Technology, Lanna. [image_with_animation image_url=”8298″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
Artists from Thailand and nearby countries (plus the USA!)
I had about three people translating for me during the demo. The cool thing about Printmaking is most shops are standardized with similar equipment. Despite the language difference, we were all pretty much on the same page.
Today, after skittering around with tasks, I was able to attend Fran’s Giant Figures Workshop, held in the spacious light-filled Drawing and Painting Studios at the Seattle Artist League. Years ago, when Lendy and I looked at this big Equinox warehouse space, we had NYSS style drawing intensives like this in mind, so it was …
One way to use broken color is to create optical color mixing, which is to put colors side by side, instead of mixing them together. Viewed from a far-ish distance, the colors visually mix. Viewed a bit closer up, the difference in colors visually pop and vibrate, giving the sensation or the impression of light. Think …
She studied the pattern and repetition of the pieces. She examined each character in the painting, and figured out the bride was the one with her orange hair out, and in black. Black clothing dye, as our resident textiles expert Lucy Garnett points out, would have been very expensive at that time, so appropriate for …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9047″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] John Singer Sargent’s portrait of Eleanora Duse When looking at John Singer Sargent’s “effortless” portraits, I often wonder how long he actually spent on each. He wanted the painting to look fresh, with an economy of brush strokes, so a painting that looks like it was done in one …
Postcard from Thailand: Nikki teaching at Rajamangala University
We received a second postcard from Thailand! Nikki Barber, the League’s printmaking instructor is spending one month as a studio-based artist in residence at Rajamangala University in Chiang Mai. There, she is able to interact directly with students, faculty, and Thai artists, experiencing the technical differences between Seattle and Chiang Mai printmaking techniques.
Nikki sent us another “postcard” via email. Look at her apron. The Seattle Artist League is now officially international!
The international workshop is fantastic! I have been able to crank out some work I’m proud of in an incredibly short period of time. I also have had the pleasure of giving a demo on my process to students at Rajamangala University of Technology, Lanna. [image_with_animation image_url=”8298″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]
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Want to be the first to take a class from Nikki Barber when she gets back from Thailand? Click here to see her upcoming spring classes and workshops at the League.
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