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.
What happens when millions of people stop what they’re doing, and all focus on the same beautiful thing, at the same beautiful time? Last Monday millions of people across the nation put on their funny glasses, stuck their heads in cardboard boxes, and stood looking up to the sky. For one beautiful unified moment, we all …
I’ve been talking about how to use hands as expressive elements within a drawing. I love this idea so much, both for technical practice and for powerful personal expression, that I made a class to study expressive hands and heads, and I started collecting examples. Some I collected because I appreciated the rendering. Some I collected because the artist …
The first print ended up being too dark, but I liked the stippled grey and felt confident I could make a better plate without much effort. I loved the brush strokes on the vase. I’m going to like Vitreography. We start Tuesday!
According to the National Gallery UK: The woman’s large white headdress, its calligraphic shape made up of stiff, angular folds, is striking against the dark background. Shading around the folds reinforces the sense of their depth, and the artist seems to want us to think that a fly, deceived by his illusion, has attempted to …
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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