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
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, …
The League has a new mural, designed and painted by Nikki Barber. The mural honors Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old Black, pregnant woman who was fatally shot in North Seattle by two white Seattle police officers on June 18, 2017. This post was written by Nikki Barber. Painting the mural, there were occasional, unpleasant jeers, and …
In art school, our art history course included a section on German Expressionism, featuring some paintings by Ludwig Kirchner. They looked something like this: Ludwig Kirchner, “Street, Berlin” (1913) I remember not liking them at the time. Expressionism? Everyone’s squeezed in like bristling sardines! The darkness behind the colors, the acidic contrasts, the dampening black, …
Wiki: In photography, bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”. Another artist in Seattle paints the bokeh effect consistently into her work: Kate Protage at the SAM Gallery …
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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