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 collection of artworks has been grouped with no association of genre, medium, artist, or online class. They have been selected and placed here so that they can complement each other, just as we hang a gallery wall for one of our all-inclusive Big League Anniversary shows.
This is one in a series of posts featuring artworks produced through this pandemic. In this terrible year, we have made some good artworks. More to come!
Still Life; The Greens
Jessica Conaway, Study 1Jessica Conaway, Study 2Jessica Conaway, Study 3Anne Walker, Early Spring Cup, 17.5×13″ oil on canvasAnne Walker, Chisel Cup, 14×11.5″ oil on canvasAnne Walker, Cups with Orange, 16×12″ oil on canvas
Still Life with Fruit
Lisa Bourgon, Gourd & Pomegranate, Digital/ProcreateJulie Marcelia, 11×14″ acrylic on canvas
“‘Cider Apples’ was painted in Jonathan Harkham’s Still Life class. I’m still processing that class. I’m sure it will continue to influence everything I ever paint. Thank you Jonathan! Post-class, I’ve continued to paint still lives (“Satsumas”, “Plenty”), calling this larger series Covid Still Life. Somehow it seems right for me to be painting still lifes through this pandemic as so much has ground to a halt. I’m reminded that there is a beauty in stillness and so much to be learned…” – Juli Marcelia
Julie Marcelia, Plenty, 16×20″ acrylic on canvasJulie Marcelia, Satsumas, 12×16″ acrylic on canvasHannah DeBerg, Apples and Onion, oil
[image_with_animation image_url=”7550″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Using a ruler and colored pencils/pens on paper, or string and nails, or by fastening skewers, use straight lines at intervals to make a curve. There are a lot of ways to approach this project. For a simplified “How To” with 3 printable templates, click here. To print out graph …
Before we move out of this big and beautiful space (and into a new big and beautiful space….) The Seattle Artist League is hosting a show of student work March 10, 11, 12 and we want you to be a part of it! Past and present students and teachers at the League, you are invited to …
From Wikipedia: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japanese: 歌川 広重), also Andō Hiroshige (Japanese: 安藤 広重; 1797 – 12 October 1858), was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition. Hiroshige is best known for his landscapes, such as the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō and The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō; …
Happy New Year, and welcome to the first day of our 30 day challenge! For this first project, we’ll have you warm up and introduce yourself with a delightfully odd looking portrait. Blind contour drawing is an exercise in which an artist draws the contours of a subject without looking at the paper. The technique was introduced by Kimon Nicolaïdes in The …
Online Anniversary Show; Still Life
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 collection of artworks has been grouped with no association of genre, medium, artist, or online class. They have been selected and placed here so that they can complement each other, just as we hang a gallery wall for one of our all-inclusive Big League Anniversary shows.
This is one in a series of posts featuring artworks produced through this pandemic. In this terrible year, we have made some good artworks. More to come!
Still Life; The Greens
Still Life with Fruit
“‘Cider Apples’ was painted in Jonathan Harkham’s Still Life class. I’m still processing that class. I’m sure it will continue to influence everything I ever paint. Thank you Jonathan! Post-class, I’ve continued to paint still lives (“Satsumas”, “Plenty”), calling this larger series Covid Still Life. Somehow it seems right for me to be painting still lifes through this pandemic as so much has ground to a halt. I’m reminded that there is a beauty in stillness and so much to be learned…” – Juli Marcelia
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