Hi!
I have new works under “Paintings” and “Figure Drawings.” Thanks for looking.
Liz
Drip, drip, drop – it’s April
Category art student
Hello there, how are you?
Hope you are just fine and that spring is finding its way into your life. I’ve added new portrait paintings under the PAINTINGS tab . . . Enjoy, comment, whatev. xoxoxo LK
Happy New Year!
With big gratitude to DubSea Coffee, my show is over today. I got to hand a big check to WestSide Baby from the sales of six or seven pieces. Now I’m working on portraits and a 30-day challenge from Seattle Artist League (you can join, too!) I have new photos under the Painting and Drawing menu tabs. Thanks for looking.
go big or go home
September 2021: working in two ways, outside and big. I’m painting in Kubota Garden, learning to see good compositions and work outside, and I’m painting a canvas that is 4×6 feet. Very big. The new stuff is under “paintings.” Thank you for looking; I always appreciate it.
Corny and ignorant
May 24: I’ve added some new works to the Paintings section. Thanks for looking.
March 2021
Poet Margaret Randall, was a student of Elaine de Kooning’s at the University of New Mexico. She recalls Ms. de Kooning encouraging her students: “Think big, paint big, be wedded to nothing, neither landscape, nor abstraction, paint nor stone.” And “abandon long practiced becomes skill.”
I have some new things to look at under “drawings” and “painting.” Abandon was practiced. Thanks for looking. Get vaccinated if you can.
February 2021
Twenty new things to look at! Hope you’re doing well – spring is coming.
New stuff in painting & drawing
Doing lots of learning around colors: saturation (low & high), neutrals, and more. What colors do I like? What colors do you like??
new stuff
Just writing to let you know that I have let go of blogging and am only adding paintings & drawings to this website now. I’m adding things weekly, so if you’re interested, I welcome you to come and stroll around my virtual studio. Check in the menu under “paintings” and “drawings.” Feedback and questions welcome. Stay well and vote early and often.
Old in Art School
Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over is a memoir about a history professor, Dr. Nell Painter, who decides at age 64 to go to art school. She gets a bachelor’s, then a Master’s in art. She’s a professional artist and continues to write, and wrote her memoir in 2018. She spoke at the Northwest African American Museum, and I was happy to go.
I wish I had gone to art school – in my 20’s. But it probably works out much better for me to be old in art classes. I’m not scared to experiment and I’m far less concerned about other people’s opinions. And my time is my own, too.
And since I can’t go anywhere, and I have internet and a laptop, I’m taking art courses: abstract watercolor, abstract oil&wax, intuitive drawing, and courses from MoMA: Contemporary Art, and Sexing the Canvas (gender & art). Whew!
"Not knowing how to do it is part of knowing how to do it." - Leon Kossoff 