Seattle Artist League Classes, Seattle

This class will teach you the basics of form, proportion, composition, and perspective with a wide range of approachable media and subjects. Students will learn different approaches for observational drawings, and examine the stylistic expressions that result from each approach. The projects are tailored throughout the course to accommodate each students’...

Abstraction in painting allows the artist to communicate in often personal and impactful ways. Designed for all levels of experience with acrylic paint, students are exposed to a variety of approaches applying abstract techniques and sensibilities to the classic art of painting. We will explore different ways to approach abstract compositions through...

Learn traditional and contemporary approaches to asian brush and ink in this 2 day workshop. Learn about the history and materials of sumi as you focus on brush strokes, and letting the paper come alive. We will work with the traditional materials of sumi (ink), watercolor, and rice paper. You will learn the classic techniques of this wonderful art...

This is a fun and intensive class for beginner and intermediate artists, 30 minutes longer than Sunday afternoon’s Beginning Figure Drawing, allowing us to get a bit deeper into practice. This class will develop fundamentals and experimental approaches with gestural figure drawing. Every week participants will be challenged by a different technique...

This class will teach you the basics of form, proportion, composition, and perspective with a wide range of approachable media and subjects. We will also focus on different ways of looking at and recording objects, which will enhance the visual information you observe making it easier to accurately translate this information onto a 2-D surface. The...

Explore the richness of acrylic painting and the still life genre in this eight week introductory course led by Nicholas Enevoldsen, an alumnus and former principal instructor of the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. Emphasizing accuracy and strong design, students will produce still life paintings from direct observation and engage...

Many people aspire to learn how to paint, but few know where to begin. This class is catered to the beginning painter, with ample support and exercises provided for pleasant exploration into the foundations of painting.  This class will provide technical information to get you started (brushes, basic mediums, color, surface, and applications),...

This is a class that was designed in response to the Carlos San Millan workshops. San Millan brought up a lot of complex and wonderful ideas about light and color, but the workshop was too short to master them! This is an extended class series that will allow us to practice those ideas and more, in our own personal voices. This is a structured studio...

In this class, students will work from live models to draw and sculpt studies of heads and busts in clay. Drawings will be used for warm ups for sculptures in clay, but for students who prefer to either draw or sculpt exclusively, those options will be available. Focus will not be on producing large finished polished sculptures, but on producing informal...

Have printmaking experience already? Feel comfortable using the press and have your own projects you want to work on, but still want peer support and instructor guidance? During this 7 week class series, participants will work with the instructor to develop their own printmaking projects and produce original hand-pulled prints in this...

Monotype prints are one-of-a-kind prints, an inky combination of painting, drawing and printmaking, run through a press. Using a variety of techniques and tools, such as layering with brayers, painterly brush work, subtractive materials and stencils, this class will teach you to see in new ways through the subtractive process. Students will study...

It’s dark outside. Let’s make some dark and glowy paintings! This is a productive little 1 day workshop with a focus on the effects of light in nocturnes. This workshop is an offshoot of the class “Drawing & Painting the Effects of Light“, and is a great complementary addition to the class. This is a chance to study and practice the...

This Abstracts workshop will encourage students to make many works and studies, with the idea of pushing participants past their threshold of what they might consider to be the final product. Play, explore and a willingness to recreate or destroy a work will be emphasized. On the first day students will bring 4-5 images from any era. The objective...

The drawing intensive operates with the underlying assumption that drawing is a direct examination of (and possible challenge to) our perceptions and experience of the world and, as such, drawing is transformative to an art practice. We will be working from one or more live models, primarily using charcoal on paper, with other materials introduced...

Artists need to be able to give and receive feedback on their work, but critique is synonymous with unsupportive criticism, and “I like it” doesn’t offer much help to a painter who wants to grow. So how do we see, think about, and evaluate works of art?  In this structured and supportive discussion class, students will develop their ability...