Capitol Cider is a Public House on Capitol Hill in Seattle, WA, featuring hard cider, beer, wine, mead, classic cocktails and local spirits. It has two- levels: a lower level and the main floor. The main floor is a small dining room for about 50, where Aristides Atelier master copy work will be displayed. Upstairs, a 7 seat bar upstairs, facing the brick back bar(original wall on the building) and 15+ foot ceilings. The lower level has an 8 seat bar, fireplace, game room with shuffleboards, and a giant mural painted by Aristides Atelier graduate, Tenold Sundberg, featuring his interpretation of a work by Anton Otto Fischer.
Aristides Atelier students thoughtfully chose their master copy work, then researched their subject(s). We are pleased to share the writing of third year student, John Zadrozny, here:
Ship in the Stormy Sea
Ivan Aivazovsky studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and became a renowned painter of seascapes. He travelled widely throughout Europe painting scenes from coastal towns. He opened an art school in the last years of his life.
Mastercopy after Ivan Konstantinanovich Aivazovsky
Ship in the Stormy Sea
1887
Located in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
I chose this painting because I was drawn to its colors and to the drama it depicts.
I started with a transparent ground and built the sky on top of that, allowing the ground to show through to create luminosity. I used a raw umber underpainting for the ship and darker parts of the water, and gave the foreground as much luminosity as I could. The trickiest part was to keep the waves integrated with each other, while giving as many cues to the water's form and depth as I could.
A Sloop of War
James Buttersworth studied painting with his father, Thomas, who was also a noted maritime painter. He immigrated to the United States from England in 1845, and chronicled the America's Cup yacht races over the next four decades.
Mastercopy after James Buttersworth
A Sloop of War
1850
I like the colors and the composition of this painting, and I think the slightly primitive look gives it a charm.
I started with a transparent red oxide ground, and gave the sky some bvibrance by allowing much of it to show through. I did an underpainting in raw umber to establish value relationships among the ships and water, and then completed the color painting. It was tricky to make all the elements into a visually integrated whole.
