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.
Lou Copeland Tea Anyone acrylic, 18x 24″ loucopelandartwork.comAnnie Rodak River Edge multi wood block 6 color print with chine college 8″ x 6″. 12/12 edition run @annrodakCynthia Hartwig Remake Your World but First Make Your Bed Oil on chipboard, 24 x 36″Michele Yanow Self-Portrait: Old Wine, New Flask Ink, colored pencil, conte crayon on paper 11”x17” @mbyanowart
“My friend, Rainer Waldman Adkins, and I were one of the Master/Apprentice pairs chosen for this year’s Heritage Arts Apprentice Program grant from the WA Center for Cultural Traditions. He’s teaching me Jewish calligraphy and manuscript illumination. Normally, we’d be sitting side by side so he could show me how to hold my tools properly, form the strokes, how much pressure to exert on the pen, brush, or quill, etc. This piece is my reflection on the strangeness of studying an ancient art—literally, handwriting— over zoom.” – Michele Yanow
Cynthia Hartwig Selfie with Brushes Oil on panel, 11 x 14″
“Art is saving my life. I hope it does the same for you.” – Cynthia Hartwig
Jan Harlan 2020 oil, 3 x 3″Cynthia Hartwig Grief Requires Reassembly Oil on canvas, 20 x 24″Jess Ray Instill Life Watercolor and acrylic marker, 11 x 14″Wendy Lumsdaine Self Portrait Gouache, 9 x 12″ wendylumsdaine.squarespace.com @wsl_createsCelia Bowker Soft Shapes Oil on board, 19 x 18″Alex Walker Still Life With Shoes Oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″ @alexwalker_himselfSandy Nelson Red Geranium at Window digital art (painted in Procreate on an iPad, in Keith Pfeiffer’s class)
“Delightful to learn to ‘paint’ in Procreate on an iPad — in a class at SAL, from home, during a pandemic!” – Sandy Nelson
Kathy Paul Apples Acrylic on canvas paper, 9 x 12″Colleen Tuell Little Tomato Shellac, alcohol ink, acrylic, glaze, 5 x 5″
This is the last post in this series of artworks submitted by League artists featuring work made during this quarantine. A big thank you to everyone who collaborated on this year of art. We hope to see you in person soon!
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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.
Tea Anyone
acrylic, 18x 24″
loucopelandartwork.com
River Edge
multi wood block 6 color print with chine college
8″ x 6″. 12/12 edition run
@annrodak
Remake Your World but First Make Your Bed
Oil on chipboard, 24 x 36″
Self-Portrait: Old Wine, New Flask
Ink, colored pencil, conte crayon on paper
11”x17”
@mbyanowart
“My friend, Rainer Waldman Adkins, and I were one of the Master/Apprentice pairs chosen for this year’s Heritage Arts Apprentice Program grant from the WA Center for Cultural Traditions. He’s teaching me Jewish calligraphy and manuscript illumination. Normally, we’d be sitting side by side so he could show me how to hold my tools properly, form the strokes, how much pressure to exert on the pen, brush, or quill, etc. This piece is my reflection on the strangeness of studying an ancient art—literally, handwriting— over zoom.” – Michele Yanow
Selfie with Brushes
Oil on panel, 11 x 14″
“Art is saving my life. I hope it does the same for you.” – Cynthia Hartwig
2020
oil, 3 x 3″
Grief Requires Reassembly
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24″
Instill Life
Watercolor and acrylic marker, 11 x 14″
Self Portrait
Gouache, 9 x 12″
wendylumsdaine.squarespace.com
@wsl_creates
Soft Shapes
Oil on board, 19 x 18″
Still Life With Shoes
Oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″
@alexwalker_himself
Red Geranium at Window
digital art (painted in Procreate on an iPad, in Keith Pfeiffer’s class)
“Delightful to learn to ‘paint’ in Procreate on an iPad — in a class at SAL, from home, during a pandemic!” – Sandy Nelson
Apples
Acrylic on canvas paper, 9 x 12″
Little Tomato
Shellac, alcohol ink, acrylic, glaze, 5 x 5″
This is the last post in this series of artworks submitted by League artists featuring work made during this quarantine. A big thank you to everyone who collaborated on this year of art. We hope to see you in person soon!
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