Mixed Media Artist - daily painter of portraits, flowers, abstracts and birds
AMONG FUGUE & RETURN _ Exhibition-project
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Reading: The Promotional Power of Little By Little
Listening to: Untitled Mix
I painted this art journal page the day my dog Lola passed away in January.
Grief
8×12 inch print available here
Re-examine all you have been told…
Dismiss what insults your Soul.
Walt Whitman
Sweet Bird of Youth II
SOLD!
This wintry vision I have in my head comes from a vivid memory I have of my Mom, and how she would tell me to stand outside in the snow with a tiny piece of bread on my hand. She said if I was quiet and still enough, a bird would land on me, and I would get to feed him. aw! How I wanted that to happen!!
This painting sold on March 6th, which was my Mom’s birthday. 🙂
I’ve painted nine of these over the past 3 years, and I thought I was done with the series. However, now that I only have one left, I think I will be painting another one soon. I can’t let my mother’s memory die, just because she did, and painting these make me feel close to her. How can I ever stop painting them?
The Pet Couch
I put the pillows on the back of the couch, and he pulled them off. I was tugging on one end, and him on the other. He was determined. I gave up, and let him have the pillow before we ended up ripping it. Next thing I know, he’s snoring so loudly, I couldn’t hear myself think. I looked over, and he was sleeping with his head on the pillow. lol That dog is no dummy.
art journal page
All is Well No 1 in series
Revised!
Available for purchase here
I wrote about my studio being in the walk-in closet when we first moved into this house. I couldn’t find a photo of it at that time, but look what I just found. It was so tight in there, I couldn’t easily sit in the chair without it being up against the wall, literally. But, where there’s a will, there’s a way, as the old saying goes. I made lots of art in this tiny space. Mostly book art, like art journals and altered books. I also made handmade books. I hadn’t bought any canvas at this point, yet, which was probably a good thing. Where would I have put the easel? lol
No matter where you’re making art, keep making it! It’s important.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I had to take a screenshot of this. 🙂
In case you didn’t see it, my painting was published on the cover of the San Diego Reader last week.
Singing the Blues
SOLD!
prints are available here
Watch me paint her..
Singing the Blues painting video0
Aw, wook at that sweet wittle gurl.
Listening to: Cage the Elephant (full album)
My painting Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 3 is on the front cover of San Diego Reader this week. If you’re in the area, I hope you pick one up. I’ll be getting mine in the mail in a couple days, and I can’t wait to see it in print. It was such an honor to be asked if I could share my artwork for their story, Laughing Myself Out of the Gutter. Thank you, Howie, for getting in touch with me.
Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 3 has been sold, but I painted a couple more in case anyone is interested in owning one.
Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 4
Available for purchase here
Lay Your Weary Head to Rest No 5
Available for purchase here
There are also small 4×4 prints of No 3 on chipboard available here,
and 8×10 prints available here.
painting heart rocks There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it. Daniel Radcliffe
I’ve had my music mostly turned off for the past couple weeks because I was glued to the tv watching the Olympics. This week the music is back on, and whoa. It’s like an explosion of musics around here. I’ve been listening to Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette, and We are all made of stars by Moby, I’m Wide Awake by Bright Eyes, Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles, Give Up by the Postal Service, and Crazy for You by Best Coast. Quite an odd mix, I agree. All of these links are to full albums on Youtube. Party in the studio!
ps: Crystal Castles is the craziest, but I really like it. 🙂 Let me know if you listen.
Three Sisters in a Photobooth acrylic portrait collage painting 12×12 inches on canvas Available for purchase here
This is another revised painting. I saw it on Etsy yesterday, and pulled it for a couple hours while I fixed it. I thought the background was too busy. I’m in love with this dark gray that I mixed up last week. It’s going to be showing up in a lot of my paintings from now on.
I started a new class yesterday, The history of art for artists, animators, and gamers given by CalArts. Not so sure about the gaming part because I’m not big on games, but it might be interesting. If it’s not, well it’s free, so I can’t lose. The first assignment is already killing me.
Art from a perfect world? arrrrgh!!! I’m going to think about this one way too long, I can tell.
Liz
art journal page
9×12 prints are available here
Hello and welcome to my new website. I’m so excited to have the site up and running, finally. I’m still tweaking things here and there, and I still have a lot of paintings to add to my portfolio. It’s getting there, tho. Slowly, but surely, I’m building this baby from scratch. I have been working on it day and night. I’m pretty exhausted, and ready to do other things this week. Actually, as you’re reading this, I’m probably sleeping in. I was up reallllly late last night, writing this post for all you morning people. 😉 Good morning!! Give me about 2 more hours, and I’ll join you.
gesso and black paint
All my old blogger posts are here, but not the comments from the past 3 or 4 days. Most of the posts look a bit weird with lots of spacing between lines, and photos that aren’t aligned in the center. I’m going through the posts, one-by-one, and it’s going to take forever to fix things. There are a lot of broken links, too. Eventually, I hope to fix everything, but I’m not expecting a miracle overnight. So, if you see some wonky looking posts, it’s because I haven’t gotten around to fixing it yet. Soon..as in the next year or so, I’ll get to it. 😉 I need to keep moving forward at the same time I’m going backwards. Not always easy to do.
blurred on purpose
assignment for Misty’s Full Circle class
If you normally read my blog through a reader, please remember to subscribe or you won’t see any new updates from me. I recently started using inoreader to read blogs, and so far, I like it very much. I was using feedspot, but it turned into one hot mess. I couldn’t use Chrome because every time I tried to switch to another blog, it wouldn’t update my screen. It would in Firefox, so I did that for a while, but then there was this huge advertisement that took up the bottom left hand side of the page. It was pretty tacky. I couldn’t even get to my list of subscriptions anymore. That, plus it had some downtime, and overall, I wasn’t happy with the performance of the site. Inoreader is very cool. It’s clean, simple, and white. I tried one reader that was a horrid shade of green, and it was so unpleasant to look at..I couldn’t focus on anything, except the color. ugh.
Schoolboy
6×6 on canvas board
Available for purchase here
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I’m glad you’re here. I hope you’ll stick with me through this change. If you’re coming from Blogger, you can still leave comments. If I set it up right, everyone can, but I’m moderating them..just in case spam gets through. If you have any problems leaving a comment or with anything else on the site, contact me, so I can fix it. That’s the thing with owning your own website..anything goes wrong, it’s all on me to make it right. Oh, the pressure. 😉
Wish Upon the Pink Stars
Figurative painting
girl and bird, gray sky, snow
11×14 on canvas
Available here
SOLD!
About: This painting has a feeling of isolation. Being alone with a bird with nothing but gray skies, and land. The colors are muted in this one. I wanted it to feel cold, like winter; yet, warm to the heart because of the close relationship you see between the girl and bird.
I finally edited the video so you can see me paint her. This is one of those paintings that took a few months to finish. I wasn’t working on it every day, but I kept getting stuck, and didn’t know how to proceed. That usually doesn’t happen to me because I like to paint a painting in one sitting, but for some reason I didn’t know what to do with this one.
