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.
[image_with_animation image_url=”9204″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] How old is this sculpture, and who do you think made it? (Answer will be posted tomorrow)
People posted hundreds of drawings for our 30 day January challenge, in which artists are invited to respond to a daily prompt posted on our V. Notes blog. Unlike other drawing challenges, these prompts are wildly varied, open to non-typical materials around us, and are designed to feed a broad spectrum of creative skills at …
Pastel artist. Specializes in tablecloths, ladies, and ladies on tablecloths. His work is very Matisse-like, but unlike Matisse, Boncompain is not yet dead. He creates most of his work in his Paris studio, with extended summers in Provence. Where else would he be? “Painting is the creation of silence” [image_with_animation image_url=”4759″ alignment=”” animation=”None[image_with_animation image_url=”4758″ alignment=”” …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9795″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] In the early 1960s, Jasper Johns made a series of 12 artworks playing with a sequence of numbers. The numbers gave him an excuse to play with figure and ground, line and color. Sometimes the simplest challenges are the most fun. Today, overlap the numbers 0-9. Invent a typography, …
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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