Elizabeth Malaska, Still Life on War Rug, 2016, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and graphite on canvas (2017)
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
Elizabeth Malaska, They Took Me and Split Me Open From Scalp to Crotch, and Still I’m Alive, and Walk Around Pleased With the Sun and All the World’s Bounty, 2011, oil, gesso, charcoal & pencil on tea-stained canvas, 60 x 47″
Elizabeth Malaska, Maidens, 2019, oil, Flashe, charcoal, and pencil on canvas, 60×84″
March 10-12, 2017: We put on our First Ever Seattle Artist League Show, featuring a huge variety of over 100 drawings and paintings by more than 50 League artists. With huge thanks to everyone involved, the show was an enormous success; a showcase of creative achievements. We are pleased and proud to see how things are …
Today is the darkest day of the year, made extra dark this year by the pandemic. The good news is that from this day on, the days get brighter. I’ll hold my breath on the other. Today’s post has a collection of low light and nocturne paintings by Sangram Majumdar, one of my favorite painters. …
A trace monotype is made by laying paper down on an inked piece of plexiglass, then drawing a design on the back of the paper. The drawing tool presses the paper against the ink, making a dark line on the front of the paper. There’s often a smudgy look made by fingerprints, and a shadowy …
A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching. Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. …
Elizabeth Malaska
“Protest is a fundamental reason I paint. Protest against sexism, against the status quo, against what I should be doing” – Elizabeth Malaska (Oregon Arts Commission)
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Majumdar’s Nocturnes
Today is the darkest day of the year, made extra dark this year by the pandemic. The good news is that from this day on, the days get brighter. I’ll hold my breath on the other. Today’s post has a collection of low light and nocturne paintings by Sangram Majumdar, one of my favorite painters. …
Hedda Sterne, Trace Monotypes
A trace monotype is made by laying paper down on an inked piece of plexiglass, then drawing a design on the back of the paper. The drawing tool presses the paper against the ink, making a dark line on the front of the paper. There’s often a smudgy look made by fingerprints, and a shadowy …
Glen Alps
A pioneer in 20th century printmaking, Glen Alps was the professor and creator of the Printmaking Department at UW. Alps coined the term “collagraph” for his prints in the 1960s. The process was much more involved then traditional printmaking methods such as engraving, serigraph, or etching. Collagraphs are a low-tech, low toxic, and accessible printmaking process. …