Ruth Shapiro Angry Man 18 x 18″ oil Ruthdshapiro.com
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 Kleinman The Light 12 x 12″ acrylic on canvas carolkleinmansunflowerstudio.weebly.comJudith Skillman Neon Sea 11 x 14″ 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
Carol Kleinman Mastermind 12 x 12″ acrylic on canvas carolkleinmansunflowerstudio.weebly.comCarol Kleinman Study in Turquoise 12 x 12″ acrylic on canvas carolkleinmansunflowerstudio.weebly.com
“I have taken 3 wonderful courses at the Seattle Artist League. I have learned so much!!” – Carol Kleinman
Xin Xin Healing 6 x 9″ Acrylic, charcoal, and dry pastels
Congratulations! You are halfway through our 30 day creative challenge! How are you doing with the various approaches? Do you have favorites? Hopefully you’ve logged into Instagram or to the Padlets to “like” people’s artistic responses. Awards and prizes will be posted today. Here are links to all the Padlet pages so far: Day 1: …
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 …
Painting above: Xue Wang, Uninvited Guest I can’t believe some of the shit my brain says. I wouldn’t let anyone talk to me the way I talk to myself when I try to paint. I pretend the voice is coming from a person who is standing in the room. I can’t help but laugh …
Day 21 of our 30 day creative challenge in January was a transcription of Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne. The transcription didn’t have to be a copy, but I was looking for artists who were seeing the underlying story, structure, movement, and composition – as well as artists who took the inspiration into their own new …
Online Anniversary Show: Bold Abstracts
Angry Man
18 x 18″ oil
Ruthdshapiro.com
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!
The Light
12 x 12″ acrylic on canvas
carolkleinmansunflowerstudio.weebly.com
Neon Sea
11 x 14″ 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
Mastermind
12 x 12″ acrylic on canvas
carolkleinmansunflowerstudio.weebly.com
Study in Turquoise
12 x 12″ acrylic on canvas
carolkleinmansunflowerstudio.weebly.com
“I have taken 3 wonderful courses at the Seattle Artist League. I have learned so much!!” – Carol Kleinman
Healing
6 x 9″ Acrylic, charcoal, and dry pastels
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