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
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Not all sections of a surface are equal. Movement, space, and placement can be used to suggest time. Within the composition we can infer a sequence, a past, and a future. In part, this is due to how we read. Generally, we read top to bottom, and left to right. Within a scene in a …
Today is day 28 of our 30 day creative challenge. Fridays are comics day. For today’s comic challenge, you’ll illustrate a quote from a random idea generator. As usual, feel free to draw, paint, print, collage, assemblage, photograph, or build an igloo out of sugar cubes. Here is your quote: Post it Post your work …
The 1930 Look in British Decoration From 1928 to 1930, a very young Francis Bacon worked in London, Paris and Berlin, designing interiors and pieces of furniture. I found a picture of his interior work – just one picture, and what a thrill to see it. When he was 19, his studio in South Kensington …
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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