Here’s a little video explaining why Expressive Portraits is my favorite online art class at the Seattle Artist League.
Last quarter, participants studied how to sketch a face quickly, and how to add expressive descriptions of what makes a face not just accurate, but interesting. We looked at portraits by Alice Neel, Rembrandt, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and we were also inspired by each other’s drawings! Special thanks to League artists Mimi Tochia Boothby, Alex Walker, Anne Walker, Georgia Ward-Collings, Alexia Cameron, and Katie-Jo Keppinger for sharing their portraits.
The next Friday night Expressive Portraits (in COLOR!) class starts June 26, 2020. You can join us from anywhere in the world! (Including the same room you’ve been sitting in for the last three months.) Click here to learn more.
Learn anywhere. Make anywhere. League where you are.
March 13, 2020 was the League’s first day in quarantine. March 20, 2020 was scheduled to be League artist Lucy Garnett’s ‘Notations’ show reception at Shoreline City Hall. It was half a lifetime of work, and the League-hosted celebration was canceled. Here’s a look back at one of her pieces that seems to have an …
Below is a video by Proko showing a brief overview of basic drawing supplies, and a demo for how to hand sharpen a soft charcoal pencil. He explains what the weird sandpaper thingy is for.
[image_with_animation image_url=”7537″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Look around you. If you were a travel agency, hoping to entice someone to this place, what would you put on the postcard? Draw, paint, or collage a postcard with this picture, saying “Wish You Were Here.” Sarcasm and irony are very welcome. Take a picture of your piece and …
This is the beginning of a collection: examples of painted grass. When I paint grass I usually start with large shapes first, light swathes of masses break the canvas into smaller segments. I use a rag sometimes to form the first shapes, then a bristle brush so the bristles scrape away the paint as much as …
Why Expressive Portraits is my favorite online art class
Here’s a little video explaining why Expressive Portraits is my favorite online art class at the Seattle Artist League.
Last quarter, participants studied how to sketch a face quickly, and how to add expressive descriptions of what makes a face not just accurate, but interesting. We looked at portraits by Alice Neel, Rembrandt, Lucian Freud, David Hockney, and we were also inspired by each other’s drawings! Special thanks to League artists Mimi Tochia Boothby, Alex Walker, Anne Walker, Georgia Ward-Collings, Alexia Cameron, and Katie-Jo Keppinger for sharing their portraits.
The next Friday night Expressive Portraits (in COLOR!) class starts June 26, 2020. You can join us from anywhere in the world! (Including the same room you’ve been sitting in for the last three months.) Click here to learn more.
Learn anywhere. Make anywhere. League where you are.
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