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!
Mary Saucier Millie Acrylic on canvas paper 20″x16″ Final Project for ‘Beginning Acrylics’ with Keith Pfeiffer, Winter 2021Anne Buchanan Still Life with Empty Chair 14 x 17 OilGregory Harvey-Smith 3’ x 5’ Acrylics on Yupo Paper Gregory Harvey-Smith 3’ x 5’ Acrylics on Yupo paper Kate Fluckinger Urania Kate 19 x 15″ oil on linen Elisabeth Tripathi untitled 11×14″ acrylic on birch panelElisabeth Tripathi Succulents at Sunrise 12×18″ acrylic on birch panelElisabeth Tripathi Mourning 12×16″ acrylic on birch panelLucy Garnett Woman in Mysore Market 14” x 11” Oil on Canvas Michele Yanow School 2020 — study, 9×12” Oil on canvas board This is my 16 year old daughter. High school is not at all what she expected it to be.
“Sky’s the Limit” is from a Facebook gallery of cloud paintings collected by Anne McGurk. Is there a painting you’d like to add to the collection? Let us know!
Do you have advice, an idea, or info that you would tell an art buddy? Let us know! Your idea could help fuel someone else’s creativity! For example: Did you know there is an app where people post photographs of themselves so other people can practice drawing/painting portraits? It’s a free app with real people, …
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 …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11473″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] The past few V. Notes have been about drypoints, and I hope you’re not sick of hearing about drypoints, because I still have more to say. Today: Drypoints! I continued to do little experiments with Nikki Barber, and this evening (yesterday by the time you read this) I …
Online Anniversary Show: Figures and Interiors
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!
Millie
Acrylic on canvas paper
20″x16″
Final Project for ‘Beginning Acrylics’ with Keith Pfeiffer, Winter 2021
Still Life with Empty Chair
14 x 17 Oil
3’ x 5’ Acrylics on Yupo Paper
3’ x 5’ Acrylics on Yupo paper
Urania Kate
19 x 15″ oil on linen
untitled
11×14″ acrylic on birch panel
Succulents at Sunrise
12×18″ acrylic on birch panel
Mourning
12×16″ acrylic on birch panel
Woman in Mysore Market
14” x 11” Oil on Canvas
School 2020 — study,
9×12” Oil on canvas board
This is my 16 year old daughter. High school is not at all what she expected it to be.
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