Designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the Statue of Liberty is in the Neoclassical style. Neoclassical figures generally convey a sense of calm and restraint. Emotional expression is often subdued, reflecting the stoicism and rationality associated with classical Greek and Roman ideals. When viewed from below, the Statue of Liberty has a different expression than when …

Take a class with SAL – anywhere! Salman Toor, born in 1983, is an American painter raised in Pakistan. He creates paintings that depict the imagined lives of young gay men, often of Asian descent. His artwork explores various themes, including the treatment of brown men, the experiences of young people in public and private …

UNDERESTIMATING THE TRANSLATION. When I look at a painting made by observation I can’t help but assume that the artist painted what they saw in front of them, more or less. If their marks are colorful angled palette knife shapes as they are in Tina Kraft’s plein air painting above, I assume they pulled the …

Recently I posted about our family of New York Studio School influences, and Tina Kraft. I found a few more drawings that show aspects of a process that changed the way I draw. These portrait sketches by Tina Kraft demonstrate a technique of using marks to activate the white paper. The marks are both in …

Tina Kraft is a talented South Florida artist with connections to our besties at the New York Studio School. It was at NYSS where we met many of our great instructors such as Fran O’Neil, Charity Baker, Catherine Lepp, Sam Wade Levy, Shruti Ghatak, and Jonathan Harkham. Our own Keith Pfieffer is currently pursuing his …

Giacometti and the Figure in Motion An exciting show of artworks from the Intensive figure drawing workshop with NY artist Catherine Lepp are on display at the Seattle Artist League Gallery (SALGAL) this Saturday from 6-9pm Artists: Adena Marie AtkinsAntonia BlumeCynthia HartwigDorothy GleserKatie Joe Keppinger Join us this Saturday for an exciting exhibition opening, showcasing …

This is a post about a new member of the Seattle Artist League: Mary Shea. I’m proud to say she’s set up to teach drawing with us this quarter. I wanted to share some of her work that so excited me. I met Mary Shea in one of our online art class during the pandemic. …

Kathy Paul was a student in my figure drawing class when a sequence of strokes in her optic nerves left her almost completely blind. She has been drawing nearly every day since. In her multi year work of rehabilitation, Paul has produced a series of extraordinary drawings that call attention to the experience of sight …

The Nancy Margolis Gallery in NY is currently displaying “Midnight Sun”, an exhibition by Seattle Artist League instructor Charity Baker. The show features figurative landscapes in both small scale plein-air and large scale studio paintings. The collection aims to examine the psychological effects of perpetual sunlight. Yearning to reconnect with nature during the global pandemic, …