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!
Elizabeth Mitchell After Inness 18 x 24″ Oil and wax on boardCelia Bowker In The Garden Oil on board 34 x 23″Ann Rodak Spread Out reduction 3 color linoleum print 4″ x 6″ 19/19 edition run @annrodakRuth Shapiro The Tropics 36 x 36″ collage ruthdshapiro.comMichelle Yanow Fire & Rain 11 x 14” Mixed media collage on Bristol board
I’ve been studying Visual Storytelling with Portland artist/writer/teacher Daniel Duford. He really gets you to see in different ways and stretch outside your comfort zone in the way you approach image-making. Iris Taboh Landscape Mixed Media 16” x 16”Iris Taboh Reflections Mixed Media 20” x 20”Wendy Lumsdaine Solitude 8 x 10″ 6 layer reduction wood cut block printLucy Garnett The Buttress, Hebden Bridge 6-layer reduction woodcut 8″ x 5.75″ on 12″ x 9″ paper lucygarnett.com
This is been a fantastically prolific challenge! As I write this, there are 1,271 #30sal Instagram posts, and they’re still coming in. WOW! It has been a lot of fun for me to throw out ideas and see what you all create. Thank you to all the local people who participated, and shared this with …
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Take a class with SAL – anywhere! In previous V. Notes, I’ve posted work by our sumi instructor Angie Dixon, Huang Yongyu, Pan Gongkai, and stuff you didn’t know about sumi. Today I wanted to broaden my view of sumi painting. I wanted to see more works that are being created in the medium today. …
Find an old catalogue, magazine, maps, drawings, paintings, wrappers, etc. Stack the materials. You may wish to use some impermanent glue. Working with an x-acto blade, or tearing by hand, remove paper to reveal previous layers. Post your work Post to Instagram with #30SAL so we can find it. To be eligible for prizes, (yes …
Online Anniversary Show: Scenes in Grey and Green
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!
After Inness
18 x 24″
Oil and wax on board
In The Garden
Oil on board
34 x 23″
Spread Out
reduction 3 color linoleum print
4″ x 6″
19/19 edition run
@annrodak
The Tropics
36 x 36″
collage
ruthdshapiro.com
Fire & Rain
11 x 14”
Mixed media collage on Bristol board
I’ve been studying Visual Storytelling with Portland artist/writer/teacher Daniel Duford. He really gets you to see in different ways and stretch outside your comfort zone in the way you approach image-making.
Landscape
Mixed Media
16” x 16”
Reflections
Mixed Media
20” x 20”
Solitude
8 x 10″
6 layer reduction wood cut block print
The Buttress, Hebden Bridge
6-layer reduction woodcut
8″ x 5.75″ on 12″ x 9″ paper
lucygarnett.com
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