REGISTER HERE! CLASS SIZE LIMITED TO NINE STUDENTS BEGINNERS AND ADVANCED STUDENTS WELCOME. Working with moist watercolor on Arches cold-pressed paper, Liza will guide you in the exploratory process of using brush and color to release the image that waits within the washes. Discover shape and form by working in […]
Release the Image: Find your artist within!
July 10th, 2016In the gray of winter we found COLOR!
January 20th, 2014The world around me is white and gray, but in my classroom at Castleton State College there is COLOR! It was so much fun to guide this group in color exploration, composition and design elements. There were some pretty fantastic results, especially considering that many of the students (first year through senior college students) had […]
A New Year for a Great Blue Heron
January 4th, 2014It’s bitter cold in Vermont and across the continent. But we humans are not the only ones afflicted. The heron in the photo below fell out of the sky in the forest behind my sister-in-law’s house two days ago. Temperature- minus 5′, more or less. When the beautiful bird couldn’t get back into the air, […]
From the studio:
July 21st, 2013People often ask how long I’ve been working on a particular painting… It’s sort of a silly question. I remember my doctor telling me that the surgery on my carpal tunnel would only take 20 minutes or so, which made the price seem exorbitant. But she had spent 20 years perfecting her technique, which made […]
Joseph Raffael
June 23rd, 2013Aloha and Mahalo
April 13th, 2011This is the most magnificent, balmy atmosphere in the world– ought to take dead men out of grave. Mark Twain in Hawaii As usual, Mark Twain is correct. Hawaii does have magnificent, balmy sea breezes which rustle through the palm fronds and froth the translucent waves. I had never been to these islands before, but […]
Tis a poor craftswoman who blames her tools…
April 7th, 2011Traveling Studio Kit
April 2nd, 2011Traveling Studio Kit
April 2nd, 2011Holbein water jar- it collapses
Winter Transformation
February 3rd, 2011In wilderness is the preservation of the world. Henry David Thoreau I live at the northernmost end of the Taconic Mountains, a long meandering mountain wilderness which rises out of the Atlantic near New York City and ends in my backyard. More or less. Actually they vanish northward, slowly sinking into the Lake Champlain, but […]