[image_with_animation image_url=”9902″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] As part of our Art & Activism series with Fredericka Foster and the Salish Sea Project, the League has adopted an orca whale. Proceeds from orca adoptions support ongoing education, research and public outreach through the Whale Museum. There were many whales up for adoption, and League artists voted to adopt Lazuli, an orca that’s 3 years old. (He’s the same age as the League!) In clean water with lots of Coho Salmon to eat, orca whales can live 90 years. Foster’s Art & Activism class is working in conjunction with a documentary film by Alan Honick to raise awareness about our threatened sea and wildlife. Adoption is just the beginning. Long live us all! [image_with_animation image_url=”9919″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] What do orca whales sound like? Below is a compilation of sound samples from orca whales in Haro Strait, near San Juan Island, in August 2006. Collected by David Neiwert. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZSvTfYYJQ
[image_with_animation image_url=”9309″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Carlos San Millan Doorzien – a Dutch word translated as “to see through.” In dutch art, doorzien referred to a painting that showed a view from one room into another, making the picture especially beautiful. Nicholas Maes, 1657 (Danish) Pieter de Hooch, 1660 (Dutch) …
PAINTING TECHNIQUES TO GET YOU STARTED Blocking in is the step after your sketch, in which the canvas is covered with flat shapes that indicate where elements will go, and what color or value they’ll be. Move past outlines into shapes. You can easily shift and change things around in the blocking in phase, because no …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7789″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Whiting Tennis Get a few pieces of paper, and either crayons, or a pen. Take a deep breath, relax. Put crayon or pen to paper and watch what happens. Follow it like you are following a bug. As soon as your brain starts thinking of what you are drawing, switch crayons. …
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
Meet Our Orca Whale
[image_with_animation image_url=”9902″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] As part of our Art & Activism series with Fredericka Foster and the Salish Sea Project, the League has adopted an orca whale. Proceeds from orca adoptions support ongoing education, research and public outreach through the Whale Museum. There were many whales up for adoption, and League artists voted to adopt Lazuli, an orca that’s 3 years old. (He’s the same age as the League!) In clean water with lots of Coho Salmon to eat, orca whales can live 90 years. Foster’s Art & Activism class is working in conjunction with a documentary film by Alan Honick to raise awareness about our threatened sea and wildlife. Adoption is just the beginning. Long live us all! [image_with_animation image_url=”9919″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] What do orca whales sound like? Below is a compilation of sound samples from orca whales in Haro Strait, near San Juan Island, in August 2006. Collected by David Neiwert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5ZSvTfYYJQ
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