Celia Bowker Shapes with Blue Curve Oil on board, 19 x 18″
Lou Copeland Purple Pants acrylic, 48 x 24″
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.
Lou Copeland Falling Pomegranates acrylic, 20 x 20″
This is one in a series of posts featuring artworks produced through this pandemic. In this terrible year, we have made some good artworks.
This is the second to last post in this series.
Charlotte E E Hansen Pandemonium oil on canvas, 14 x 10″ @charlotteslensMargrit Schubiger In the Studio acrylic, 8 x 8″Ruth Shapiro The el royale Mixed media, 29 x 49”
Excerpt from Mitchell Albala’s Book: Simplification and Massing The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. – Hans Hoffman At a recent workshop, several students pointed to a cottonwood tree that was gently swaying in the breeze. “How are we going to paint all those leaves?” they asked. …
V. Notes are daily–ish thoughts and ideas related to art. I might post a series of pictures, a technique, an idea for a project, or some philosophical rambling. I try to make these emails relevant, but they’re not pre-planned, and they’re not perfect. They’re just thoughts in the moment, take ’em or leave ’em. Hopefully they’ll spark some thoughts and help get your artistic …
[image_with_animation image_url=”8922″ alignment=”” animation=”Fade In” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] ARTWORK PICKUP AT GALVANIZE Saturday April 7 10:00am – 12:00pm <– If you can do this it would make less work for us! ARTWORK PICKUP AT THE LEAGUE Thursday April 12 9:30-2:00, 5:30-10:00 Sunday April 15 6:00-6:25 Monday April 16 9:30-2:00, 5:30-10:00 Tuesday April 17 9:30-2:00 Any …
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! I’ve been using the words “woodblock” and “woodcut” interchangeably, but I noticed some artists use woodblock to delineate a different type of printmaking. I keep getting confused about which is which, but everyone still knows what I’m talking about. Since my own ignorance is itching at me, I …
Online Anniversary Show: Shapes in Flight
Shapes with Blue Curve
Oil on board, 19 x 18″
Purple Pants
acrylic, 48 x 24″
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.
Falling Pomegranates
acrylic, 20 x 20″
This is one in a series of posts featuring artworks produced through this pandemic. In this terrible year, we have made some good artworks.
This is the second to last post in this series.
Pandemonium
oil on canvas, 14 x 10″
@charlotteslens
In the Studio
acrylic, 8 x 8″
The el royale
Mixed media, 29 x 49”
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