June 5th, 2021
Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we’ll move out of it. – Gene Roddenberry If we don’t protect it with great haste, it will no longer be inhabitable! In the center left you can see City Hall with William pinned statue on top. Dwarfed by the skyscrapers. I’ve been in #Philadelphia building a human-sized […]
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July 23rd, 2015
It has been my pleasure every summer for the past 12 years, to share creative processes with students ages 7 to 17 in my Summer Aartz Camps. It works wonderfully well to have a wide range of ages in the group. The older kids forge ahead with their own interpretation of the projects but usually […]
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December 25th, 2014
The holidays were just around the corner. Yikes! What to do for my far flung family and nieces and nephews? I turned to the petroglyph elves. Problem solved! I decided I’d have some fun with little notebooks this year. I started with sturdy little pocket sized notebooks. These aren’t moleskine but they are well made. […]
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February 6th, 2013
Last weekend I did a demonstration at the Copley Society’s Co/So Gallery at 158 Newbury Street in Boston. It was fun. I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the layered glazes that I use for backgrounds, so the demo I gave was about creating and pouring glazes. My goal is to create a […]
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June 27th, 2012
There is something very primal about clay. For me, at least. I’ve always had an urge to shape a formless lump of malleable mud into something beautiful, something useful. For many years I made functional pottery. Cookie jars, tea pots, mugs, and more. Now I mostly am a sculptor, only occasionally making utilitarian ware. But […]
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September 4th, 2011
“I want the viewer to walk away having felt something.” – Linda St. Clair I recently visited the studio of artist Linda St. Clair in Santa Fe, New Mexico. What a delight! Her airy studio is a sky-lit space filled with color and energy. Linda paints animals of all sorts and sizes, furry and feathered. […]
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September 4th, 2011
“I want the viewer to walk away having felt something.” – Linda St. Clair I recently visited the studio of artist Linda St. Clair in Santa Fe, New Mexico. What a delight! Her airy studio is a sky-lit space filled with color and energy. Linda paints animals of all sorts and sizes, furry and feathered. […]
Posted in Acrylic, Art, Art Collecting, Art technique, Canyon Road, Creativity, Gallery 203b, Linda St. Clair, Liza Myers, Liza Myers Gallery, oil painting, painting, Ravens, Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM, Southwest Art, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
August 8th, 2011
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. -Walt Disney GROAN! I am moving! But it’s the grunt work of the move that is daunting. The editing and decision making and tossing of things that once seemed indispensable! Once that’s done […]
Posted in Acrylic, Art Classes, Art Education, Art technique, Art Workshop, Artists Journey, ceramic sculpture, Children's Art Workshops, Community Art Projects, Creativity, Liza Myers, Liza Myers Gallery, Paint brushes, the Psychology of creativity, Uncategorized, Vermont | 10 Comments »
April 23rd, 2011
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. -Winston Churchill Did you know that Winston Churchill was quite the painter? He was a late starter- He didn’t begin painting until he was 40- but over the next 48 years he painted more than 500 paintings. One of his works […]
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April 13th, 2011
This 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 […]
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