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.
In art school, our art history course included a section on German Expressionism, featuring some paintings by Ludwig Kirchner. They looked something like this: Ludwig Kirchner, “Street, Berlin” (1913) I remember not liking them at the time. Expressionism? Everyone’s squeezed in like bristling sardines! The darkness behind the colors, the acidic contrasts, the dampening black, …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. GLABROUS : smooth especially : having a …
Before I start talking about this painting, before I analyze it all over the up and down, telling you this thing and that thing about the colors and shapes, take a long moment to enjoy and experience this painting above by Susan Lichtman. I’m about to talk about it in a way that will prevent …
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. INCOMPREHENSIBILITIES Difficult or impossible to understand or …
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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