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.
The article below has some good stuff, but it also misses some of my personal favorite points about how European artists were effected by Japanese art. In the mid/late 1800’s, European art was based on stodgy old realism, and Japanese artists had the crazy idea of using their imagination. In these Japanese prints, proportions are changed, angles are shifted, and …
We start in one week Starting January 1, 2021 I’m going to start posting the League’s daily series of 30 creative challenges. All artists everywhere are invited to join in the creativity challenge! The challenges will get posted here, to V. Notes. Last January, artists posted over 1,270 artworks with #30sal on Instagram. That was an …
Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9791″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Connie Pierson, Art: Before/After League Scientists say that making art improves your happiness quotient. Happy creatives have been posting work all over the everywhere on Facebook and Instagram pages. Connie Pierson, Lucy Garnett, Alex Walker, Bolinas Frank, Siobhan Wilder, Madeline Mimi Torchia Boothby, Elva Frances, Mahala Mrozek, Marina Vogman, Laura …
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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Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene …
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