[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”8901″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]Last night’s Big League Show was a Big League success, due to the generous contributions of many. There were 198 artworks from 70 artists, and we estimate 150 people attended the reception. The quality of the work was excellent, widely varied in style and content, and incredibly interesting. There was an enormous diversity of art and people, all in conversation and engaged. It was a fun and inspiring evening.
In the next few days I’ll be posting my pictures from the show. If you have pictures from the show or of your artwork, please share them on Facebook or Instagram, and tag us so we can find it. [#seattleartistleague] Thanks!
Thank you, all of you, for being involved with the League. Cheers to another year of art and friendship.[/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”8926″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”8907″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_style” images=”8929,8928,8927,8926″ onclick=”link_no”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
In the last post called Yogurt Holds the Blueberry, I talked about thinking of everything in a composition as an active shape, painting the spaces between things, instead of painting an object floating on nothing. If we are painting the space between things, we start to see the “background” as an active shape on the …
You may recognize Morandi for his dusty still life bottles, carefully and quietly clustered in the center of the canvas. Recently, I’ve been revisiting his lesser-known but more personally inspiring collection of landscapes. In classes, we’ve been talking about simplifying a composition into shapes, and applying those shapes to pull you through the composition with …
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” full_height=”yes” columns_placement=”top” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”center” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column centered_text=”true” column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text] Fierce Women of Art In the same breath that I will say “please don’t ever refer to my gender before you refer to my work” I will share this list of lady artists, because … …
Big League Art Show
[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][image_with_animation image_url=”8901″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_column_text]Last night’s Big League Show was a Big League success, due to the generous contributions of many. There were 198 artworks from 70 artists, and we estimate 150 people attended the reception. The quality of the work was excellent, widely varied in style and content, and incredibly interesting. There was an enormous diversity of art and people, all in conversation and engaged. It was a fun and inspiring evening.
In the next few days I’ll be posting my pictures from the show. If you have pictures from the show or of your artwork, please share them on Facebook or Instagram, and tag us so we can find it. [#seattleartistleague] Thanks!
Thank you, all of you, for being involved with the League. Cheers to another year of art and friendship.[/vc_column_text][image_with_animation image_url=”8926″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][image_with_animation image_url=”8907″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_style” images=”8929,8928,8927,8926″ onclick=”link_no”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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