Elizabeth Mitchell Wisk Broom 20 x 16″ oil on canvas board
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!
Carol Jackson Turtle Eggs Watercolor on aqua board, 6 x 6
Carol Jackson Mushrooms on a Cutting Board Watercolor on paper, 9 x 6
Carol Jackson Who Knew Chickens Can Do Blue? Watercolor on paper, 9 x 7
Charlotte E E Hansen Grass oil on canvas, 9 x 12″ @charlotteslens
Lauren Margaux Still Life with Limes @sassypants
Xin Xin DreamSpace Acrylic, and Dry Pastels, 6×9 @xinlxin_
Carolyn Zick Walking Map gouache and watercolor , 12” x 9”
Ann Owens Time for Tea Acrylic on canvas board, 12×12″ @ann.k.owens1
Erin Nicole Power Golden Horn Digital Collage: monoprint, emulsion transfer, photography, 61x42cm
[image_with_animation image_url=”9902″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] As part of our Art & Activism series with Fredericka Foster and the Salish Sea Project, the League has adopted an orca whale. Proceeds from orca adoptions support ongoing education, research and public outreach through the Whale Museum. There were many whales up for adoption, and League artists voted to adopt Lazuli, an …
[image_with_animation image_url=”7694″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Hey – who mailed us the gnarly stick with the bobcat stamp? We love it. For the creative challenge today, let standardized paper and implements be darned. Mail us something strange. Do not post your strange mail to our facebook page. You wouldn’t want to spoil the surprise, would …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Previously, I posted funerary art from the 3rd through the 6th centuries. This post veers far out of that time range, but the unfinished Atlas Slave came up in discussion during today’s figure sculpture class. I got excited to share, so here they are. In 1505, Michelangelo was …
I ran into this little collection of cake paintings posted by Anne McGurk, and felt inspired to share. Inspired would not quite be the most accurate word, as I am trying not to eat sugar. If you’ve ever tried to avoid sweet foods, you know how prevalent sugar is. Sweets didn’t seem like such a …
Online Anniversary Show: The Quiet Ones
Wisk Broom
20 x 16″
oil on canvas board
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!
Turtle Eggs
Watercolor on aqua board, 6 x 6
Mushrooms on a Cutting Board
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 6
Who Knew Chickens Can Do Blue?
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 7
Grass
oil on canvas, 9 x 12″
@charlotteslens
Still Life with Limes
@sassypants
DreamSpace
Acrylic, and Dry Pastels, 6×9
@xinlxin_
Walking Map
gouache and watercolor , 12” x 9”
Time for Tea
Acrylic on canvas board, 12×12″
@ann.k.owens1
Golden Horn
Digital Collage: monoprint, emulsion transfer, photography, 61x42cm
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