March 15th, 2014
Recently I had an fortunate/unfortunate experience in the process of selling a large canvas. (Well, 4′ x 4′- not that large.) Having someone fall in love with the painting and take it to a new, happy home was great. A successful sale was great. But one of the stretcher bars had warped. Not so […]
Tags: Art, canvas stretching, painting
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July 27th, 2013
Yesterday we took a drive to Glens Falls, NY to visit the Hyde Collection. It was a perfect New England summer day. Our mission was to mail a small original painting to Utah, and to send a giclée print on canvas of Raven Nest to Maine, then see to the show. The Hyde Collection is […]
Tags: Art, Hyde Collection
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April 28th, 2013
Why does this steamy tropical world thrill me? Perhaps it’s the mystery of a once grand civilization whose history is expressed in enigmatic images… In art. All that remains is their art. Their architecture. Their monuments. The mysterious glyphs. But even that the jungle has claimed. Buried in centuries of layers of leaf litter turned […]
Tags: Art, Belize, Jaina, Maya
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December 29th, 2011
Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. -Ovid, born 43 BCE And yet, there is something powerful to be found in longevity. Ovid’s words speak to us from Rome more than 2000 years ago. For many, the language he spoke is now an obsolete exercise, valiantly kept alive by […]
Tags: Ancient Art, Art, Egyptian Art, Faience, Ovid, Split Twig figurines, Venus of Willendorf
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April 9th, 2010
Edna St Vincent Millay What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou? Edna St. Vincent Millay Blogging is much like shouting into the void. Arias in the wilderness. Cyberspace is vast, dark and airless. Who is even out there? And if there is someone there, are they listening? Why would they? Why […]
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October 2nd, 2009
Kidz Aartz Summer Studio program in my studio in BRandon Vermont Working joyfully with clay in Kidz Aartz The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust I just received a great Youtube connection: inspiration and innocence, set to music, a poem about how important the […]
Tags: Art, art education, artists, children's art, liza myers
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September 11th, 2009
Joseph Mallord William Turner It's already been several weeks since our wild ride down the back bone of the Taconic Mountains to Williamstown MA, and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute to see: Circles of Influence, O'Keeffe and Dove. It was wonderful to see old friends by O'Keeffe such asThe Lawrence Tree painted in […]
Tags: Art, arthur dove, georgia o'keeffe, liza myers artist, painting, william and francine clark art institute
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February 23rd, 2009
Ms. Maddy working on her raised gesso image. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx Gotta love Groucho. The children who chose to spend last week with me were all older than five, but still fully connected to the creative source that gives them the […]
Tags: Art, art education, brandon, Brandon Vermont., children's art, children's art classes, inspiration, Liza Myers Gallery, liza myers studio, vermont
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February 23rd, 2009
Ms. Maddy working on her raised gesso image. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. Groucho Marx Gotta love Groucho. The children who chose to spend last week with me were all older than five, but still fully connected to the creative source that gives them the […]
Tags: Art, art education, brandon, Brandon Vermont., children's art, children's art classes, inspiration, Liza Myers Gallery, liza myers studio, vermont
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December 14th, 2006
It's a lovely day in Vermont with the sun shining in the south windows. No need for a fire in the woodstove. The temperature is troubling… quite warm… all traces of our first snow have vanished even in the shadows. The ice in our little puddle/pond garden is a transparent black skiff floating away from […]
Tags: Art, art openings, bobolink, color, full moon, inter-connectedness, nests, painting
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