Yes! That’s what we want the Seattle Artist League to be like! We are so happy you are a part of the League, Miles. People like you are the reason we are doing this, and the reason the League is growing into a fun, challenging, and welcoming community. We are so glad you’re a member, and we didn’t know it until now, but the world is one squid better thanks to your print design.
Big giant thanks to the printmakers and volunteers: Alexia Coney, Lucy Garnett, Emily Howatt, Ellen Lam, Cindy Larison, Wendy Lumsdaine, Murphy Mitchel, Connie Pierson, Claire Putney, Clara Rosebrock, Hallie Scott, Miles Strombach, Marisa Vanosdale, and Brian Lane of Print Zero Studios. Thanks also to photographer and League instructor Jonathan Matteson for the photographs (below), banjo player Charlie Beck, the Zaytoona food truck, and all the community members and artists who jumped in to make this party a big giant fun success! Extra super big giant thanks to League printmaking instructor Nikki Barber for running this big giant brave printmaking class, and organizing the enormously big giant fun event. Nikki, you’re big League.
Were you at the Steamroller Printmaking Party? We’d love to hear from you! What was your favorite moment? Please post below.
[image_with_animation image_url=”9888″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Wordsmith Studio Found poems are the literary equivalent of a collage, often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, books, online texts (v-notes?), or even other poems. For today’s challenge, take an existing text and refashion it, reorder it, to make a poem. Thank you for sharing your …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10026″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Frida Kahlo, 1952 Portraits of Artist’s Fathers It’s father’s day, so I’ve collected some drawings and paintings of artist’s fathers. Evidently fathers often read the paper, and sit in chairs. Note: The names listed with the artworks are the artist’s names, not the father’s. SAL Challenge Create a portrait …
Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Traditionally, each participant draws an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is a modern version, with the entries …
I met Keith Pfeiffer in one of the last classes I taught in person, before the quarantine. The class was on color and light. We practiced producing a sensation of light by replacing white with color (above), how to get vibration from complementary hues, vibrant vs neutral effects, and how to dim or compress the …
Steamroller Prints: a Big Giant Collaborative Event
Miles Strombach
Yes! That’s what we want the Seattle Artist League to be like! We are so happy you are a part of the League, Miles. People like you are the reason we are doing this, and the reason the League is growing into a fun, challenging, and welcoming community. We are so glad you’re a member, and we didn’t know it until now, but the world is one squid better thanks to your print design.
Big giant thanks to the printmakers and volunteers: Alexia Coney, Lucy Garnett, Emily Howatt, Ellen Lam, Cindy Larison, Wendy Lumsdaine, Murphy Mitchel, Connie Pierson, Claire Putney, Clara Rosebrock, Hallie Scott, Miles Strombach, Marisa Vanosdale, and Brian Lane of Print Zero Studios. Thanks also to photographer and League instructor Jonathan Matteson for the photographs (below), banjo player Charlie Beck, the Zaytoona food truck, and all the community members and artists who jumped in to make this party a big giant fun success! Extra super big giant thanks to League printmaking instructor Nikki Barber for running this big giant brave printmaking class, and organizing the enormously big giant fun event. Nikki, you’re big League.
Were you at the Steamroller Printmaking Party? We’d love to hear from you! What was your favorite moment? Please post below.
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