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, paint, print, and share community. In a time of hardship and isolation, it was good to meet and make work together. New teachers and students – now free to teach and take classes anywhere in the world – came to join us. In the last year, the League has grown in numbers, and our artistic voice as a school has evolved.
This is the first post in a series of artworks submitted by artists at the League, sharing artwork they produced through this pandemic.
Cheryl Chudyk “I reach out to my friends across the world to illustrate their lives as they voice what is going on in their country and their life right now.”
If you would like to submit work for this show, it is not too late. Click here for info.
Last quarter Keith Pfeiffer and I taught a series on color. As promised, this was not a typical color theory class. Here are a few of my favorite student works from one of my favorite exercises. These paintings are made with compressed values, and some are entirely all one light/dark value. Some of them are …
My apologies for the silence this last week. We’ve been putting our new Spring schedule online, and finalizing the summer teen camp schedule. Spring classes and workshops for adults and teens are now open for registration. Summer Teen Camps will be posted February 15th. Whew! #? Throughout the month of January, artists posted over 1,270 …
This is a man who became an artist because he missed a train. He was walking in a Manchester suburb, and as he took in the scene he was overcome by an urge to paint it. He then decided to become an artist. “I don’t know why I paint these scenes, I just paint them.” What …
Stuart Shils in Conversation With Nikolai Fox April 6, 2012 By Larry 14 Comments Stuart Shils End of a Sumer Day, Last Blast of Warm Light, Looking Back, 30×42 inches click here for a larger view Stuart Shils in Conversation With Nikolai Fox March 2012, in advance of an exhibition at steven harvey fine …
Online Anniversary Show, Drawing in Quarantine
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, paint, print, and share community. In a time of hardship and isolation, it was good to meet and make work together. New teachers and students – now free to teach and take classes anywhere in the world – came to join us. In the last year, the League has grown in numbers, and our artistic voice as a school has evolved.
This is the first post in a series of artworks submitted by artists at the League, sharing artwork they produced through this pandemic.
If you would like to submit work for this show, it is not too late. Click here for info.
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Last quarter Keith Pfeiffer and I taught a series on color. As promised, this was not a typical color theory class. Here are a few of my favorite student works from one of my favorite exercises. These paintings are made with compressed values, and some are entirely all one light/dark value. Some of them are …
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My apologies for the silence this last week. We’ve been putting our new Spring schedule online, and finalizing the summer teen camp schedule. Spring classes and workshops for adults and teens are now open for registration. Summer Teen Camps will be posted February 15th. Whew! #? Throughout the month of January, artists posted over 1,270 …
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