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
Thursdays are vocabulary days for our 30 Day Challenge, and our inspiration for today comes from A Word A Day, by Anu Garg Scrooch PRONUNCIATION: (skrooch) MEANING:verb intr.: To crouch or huddle.verb tr.: To squeeze. ETYMOLOGY:A dialect variant scrouge (to squeeze or crowd), perhaps influenced by crouch. Earliest documented use: 1844. USAGE:“We asked the model to scrooch down so …
This challenge was from Catherine Lepp, our newest instructor from the New York Studio School: draw the head of a classical sculpture using only circles and straight lines.
We spend our lives around and within the internet, using email and text messages. But these digital layers of information have yet to integrate into our paintings. Why? These images present us with quandaries. How do we combine the “real world” with “online world” … and should these screen images really be put in paint at all? How many …
Read Claes Oldenburg’s Manifesto below. At the top of your paper write “I am for…” Choose something within his list, and draw/paint/collage/photograph it. Having trouble choosing something? Close your eyes, loudly say “I am for the art!” and point. Take a picture of your drawing and post it to our Facebook page. Tag: #salchallenge The January Creative Challenge: 15 …
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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