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.
I’m sending this stuff because I’m watching this stuff, and I’m watching this stuff because I want to do this stuff. I’m gonna make some heads in clay! Sounds like fun, and if they work, they’ll be good subjects for drawings and paintings when live models aren’t available. The wonderful secondary benefit is that studying …
From Wikipedia: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes, such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō; …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11320″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Belinda Del Pesco, drypoint of someone making a drypoint Drypoint, a rather scratchy nails-on-chalboard kind of word, is a printmaking technique in which an image is incised into a plate with a pointy thing. I’ll get into more academic V.cabulary about this later, but for now I’m just …
This is not an election related post. This is also not a cheerful post, or a motivating post. This is a post about one of the many events in 2020 that made it a year we all wish had never happened. This is a post about the smoke. This last September, wildfires raged across California, …
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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