Kathy Paul Portrait of a Watering Can 19.5 x 19.5″ Charcoal on Watercolor Paper
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!
Miles Strombach From Hole in the Wall 10”x8” Oil on canvasEmily Johnson Shadow Figures 11 x 14″ Charcoal on paper Gretchen Nash Saturday Magnolias 7 x 9″ Graphite, Ink, Acrylic, Colored Pencil Erin Nicole Power Istanbul. December Linoleum Print with Ebru Chine-collé; printed on Fabriano Rossapina paper 20x27cm * Ebru is a traditional Turkish art form of paper marbling Alex Walker Horse charcoal on paper 18″ x 24″Siobhan Wilder Sparky oil on cradled wood panel 8″ x 6″ x 2″ IG: @blue_eyed_crow website: siobhanwilder.comSiobhan Wilder Acorn Device oil on iron paint & ink on cradled wood panel 4″ x 6″ x 1″ IG: @blue_eyed_crow website: siobhanwilder.comSiobhan Wilder Lock oil on powdered graphite on cradled wood panel 9″ x 12″ x 1″ IG: @blue_eyed_crow website: siobhanwilder.comMiles Strombach Study of Rodin 18”x12” Charcoal on paperEmily Johnson Shadow Figures 11×14″ Alex Walker Game Face charcoal on paper 14″ x 17″Wendy Lumsdaine Emily 18 x 24″ Charcoal wendylumsdaine.squarespace.com @wsl_createsLyall Wallerstedt Figure Drawing with Plants Vine + Compressed Charcoal 18 x 24″ @lyallwart www.lyallw.artLyall Wallerstedt Patterson-Gimlin Frame 352 (Bigfoot) Vine + Compressed Charcoal 11 x 17″ @lyallwart www.lyallw.artLyall Wallerstedt Figure Drawing Vine + Compressed Charcoal 16 x 16″ @lyallwart www.lyallw.artShima Star Drawing 3 24 x 18 “ Graphite, Charcoal on Cold press Watercolor paper www.shimastar.com @Shimastar_Shima Star Drawing 1 24 x 18 “ Graphite, Charcoal on Cold press Watercolor paper www.shimastar.com @Shimastar_ Shima Star Drawing 2 24 x 18 “ Graphite, Charcoal on Cold press Watercolor paper www.shimastar.com @Shimastar_
“Drawings from Composition and Form class. I thoroughly enjoyed exploring Drawing and learning to fill a whole page with an image that created a dynamic energy that only used the model as reference point, I felt that nothing else was needed in any of these images and that there is enough information in each of these pieces for them to feel completed.”
– Shima
Kathy Paul Room with a Figure 10 x 13″ Pencil on Watercolor Paper kpaul1216(at)yahoo.comHannah DeBerg Banana Plant Ink on layers of yupo paper
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This collection is from an Artsy editorial by Casey Lesser from June 10th, 2016, originally titled “These 20 Female Artists are Pushing Figurative Art Forward.” Casey’s full writing is below. Personally, I’m less interested in continuing the very legitimate fight to acknowledge female artists, and more engaged by the subject matter, with respect to the artist’s life, …
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Online Anniversary Show: Black and White on Paper
Portrait of a Watering Can
19.5 x 19.5″
Charcoal on Watercolor Paper
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!
From Hole in the Wall
10”x8”
Oil on canvas
Shadow Figures
11 x 14″
Charcoal on paper
Saturday Magnolias
7 x 9″
Graphite, Ink, Acrylic, Colored Pencil
Istanbul. December
Linoleum Print with Ebru Chine-collé; printed on Fabriano Rossapina paper
20x27cm
* Ebru is a traditional Turkish art form of paper marbling
Horse
charcoal on paper
18″ x 24″
Sparky
oil on cradled wood panel
8″ x 6″ x 2″
IG: @blue_eyed_crow
website: siobhanwilder.com
Acorn Device
oil on iron paint & ink on cradled wood panel
4″ x 6″ x 1″
IG: @blue_eyed_crow
website: siobhanwilder.com
Lock
oil on powdered graphite on cradled wood panel
9″ x 12″ x 1″
IG: @blue_eyed_crow
website: siobhanwilder.com
Study of Rodin
18”x12”
Charcoal on paper
Shadow Figures
11×14″
Game Face
charcoal on paper
14″ x 17″
Emily
18 x 24″
Charcoal
wendylumsdaine.squarespace.com
@wsl_creates
Figure Drawing with Plants
Vine + Compressed Charcoal
18 x 24″
@lyallwart
www.lyallw.art
Patterson-Gimlin Frame 352 (Bigfoot)
Vine + Compressed Charcoal
11 x 17″
@lyallwart
www.lyallw.art
Figure Drawing
Vine + Compressed Charcoal
16 x 16″
@lyallwart
www.lyallw.art
Drawing 3
24 x 18 “
Graphite, Charcoal on Cold press Watercolor paper
www.shimastar.com
@Shimastar_
Drawing 1
24 x 18 “
Graphite, Charcoal on Cold press Watercolor paper
www.shimastar.com
@Shimastar_
Drawing 2
24 x 18 “
Graphite, Charcoal on Cold press Watercolor paper
www.shimastar.com
@Shimastar_
“Drawings from Composition and Form class. I thoroughly enjoyed exploring Drawing and learning to fill a whole page with an image that created a dynamic energy that only used the model as reference point, I felt that nothing else was needed in any of these images and that there is enough information in each of these pieces for them to feel completed.”
– Shima
Room with a Figure
10 x 13″
Pencil on Watercolor Paper
kpaul1216(at)yahoo.com
Banana Plant
Ink on layers of yupo paper
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