Here’s some snow for the Seattle Snowpocalypse survivors. This woodcut is made with black ink on long fiber board paper. Herschel Logan printed this in 1930. According to Logan, the image was taken from an early photograph.
You may have noticed, you astute reader you, that the composition is not quite divided in exactly half. It’s just slightly below half. I find some of my favorite compositions are just slightly not half, or if square, just slightly not square. Divine nearly perfect imperfection.
Have you made prints? We’d love for you to be part of our Printmaker’s show March 23/24. Stay tuned for details.
After the election I experienced a reality shift. It was something I found neither productive nor pleasant, but it happened. I’m not sure if it affected my pictures, or if it would have affected them if I was painting them, but I wasn’t. What it did effect was how I viewed the the school. While a …
You are invited to contribute to the 2nd annual Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards! 1st Prize: $1,000 cash2nd Prize: $500 SAL Gift Certificate3rd Prize: $300 SAL Gift CertificateHonorable Mentions: $100 SAL Gift Certificates Guest judge: Catherine Lepp Call ends 5/1/2022 @ midnight PST The Seattle Artist League Portrait Awards encourage artists to develop the theme of portraiture in their work. The …
Some Pretty Paintings A collection of figures and flowers in paintings and prints Show opens January 5, 2019 Show up through January 27th Artist Talk Saturday, January 5th (3:30-4:30pm) Opening Reception to follow (5-7pm) Smith & Vallee Gallery 5742 Gilkey Ave, Edison (360) 766-6230 Open Daily 11-5 www.smithandvalleegallery.com If you’d like to have one of these original …
This is a post about a new member of the Seattle Artist League: Mary Shea. I’m proud to say she’s set up to teach drawing with us this quarter. I wanted to share some of her work that so excited me. I met Mary Shea in one of our online art class during the pandemic. …
Composition Rule: Never divide the picture plane in half
…Unless it’s very pretty that way.
Here’s some snow for the Seattle Snowpocalypse survivors. This woodcut is made with black ink on long fiber board paper. Herschel Logan printed this in 1930. According to Logan, the image was taken from an early photograph.
You may have noticed, you astute reader you, that the composition is not quite divided in exactly half. It’s just slightly below half. I find some of my favorite compositions are just slightly not half, or if square, just slightly not square. Divine nearly perfect imperfection.
Have you made prints? We’d love for you to be part of our Printmaker’s show March 23/24. Stay tuned for details.
Make a print and show it! Our Beginning Printmaking 4 Week Shortie class starts next week. We’ve got an Intermediate Shortie too, with open studio time.
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