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!
Margrit Schubiger How Small We Are 13 x 24″ acrylicMargrit Schubiger Luminous 12 x 12″ acrylic
Victoria Jendretzke View from Skamania Lodge 8 x 10″ Watercolor @vjendretzk
Victoria Jendretzke View from Skamania Lodge 2 10 x 8″ Watercolor @vjendretzk
Judith Skillman Gray Scape 12 x 16″ oil on canvas
“I have thoroughly enjoyed taking classes at SAL via Zoom. I am honestly not sure how I would have survived the past year without your incredibly inspiring teachers.” – Judith Skillman
Lauren Margaux Lake Study @sassypantsJudith Skillman Ribbon Lake 18 x 24″ oil on canvasAnnie Rodak Vantage watercolor monotype with chine colle 9 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ @annrodakSusan Brown Montana View 6×8″ procreate Erin Nicole Power Source Photograph 42 x 28cm
[image_with_animation image_url=”7856″ alignment=”center” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Siobhan Wilder, painting in progress When I was little, before I could write, I would pretend to write in cursive. I’d take a pencil and paper and draw repeated double loops like cursive f’s, and scrawl graceful wavy lumpy lines. That’s what cursive looked like. I’d pretend to …
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Exquisite Corpse is a collaborative, chance-based drawing game invented by the Surrealists in the mid 1920s. Traditionally, each participant draws an image on part of a sheet of paper, folds the paper to conceal their work, and passes it on to the next player for their contribution. This is a modern version, with the entries …
My apologies for the silence this last week. We’ve been putting our new Spring schedule online, and finalizing the summer teen camp schedule. Spring classes and workshops for adults and teens are now open for registration. Summer Teen Camps will be posted February 15th. Whew! #? Throughout the month of January, artists posted over 1,270 …
Online Anniversary Show: Landscapes
Tempest
@sassypants
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!
How Small We Are
13 x 24″ acrylic
Luminous
12 x 12″ acrylic
View from Skamania Lodge
8 x 10″ Watercolor
@vjendretzk
View from Skamania Lodge 2
10 x 8″ Watercolor
@vjendretzk
Gray Scape
12 x 16″ oil on canvas
“I have thoroughly enjoyed taking classes at SAL via Zoom. I am honestly not sure how I would have survived the past year without your incredibly inspiring teachers.” – Judith Skillman
Lake Study
@sassypants
Ribbon Lake
18 x 24″ oil on canvas
Vantage
watercolor monotype with chine colle
9 1/4″ x 8 1/2″
@annrodak
Montana View
6×8″ procreate
Source
Photograph 42 x 28cm
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