Public Art Vox 2009-06-14T13:03:32Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d41432c4d76a47/ Public Art in Public Places Raven: Trickster, Creator, Duet partner, Reminder tag:vox.com,2009-06-14:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011017d9aa34860e 2009-06-14T12:45:37Z 2009-06-14T13:03:32Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Painting on the patio in my pjs Duet- Raven

Ravens awake me here. They nest in the spruce above the house. All day long the young one calls to his parents reminding them he's there and hungry. Reminding me to be attentive to my work. Apparently the first bird that Noah released from the ...

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]]> In the land of Georgia O. tag:vox.com,2009-06-12:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0110161701c8860b 2009-06-12T04:42:32Z 2009-06-12T13:41:32Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Marie, sitting in the patio watching me work. Ghost Ranch. In the land of Georgia O. Georgia, my Honda Element, happy to be an artist's studio in Carson New Mexico.

The days you work are the best days. Georgia O'Keeffe And working is what I have been doing. Painting in acrylic and watercolor, ink drawings, charcoal, and clay sculpture. Also a little plein air and cloudscape. How can you not respond to th...

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]]> Perseverance and Process tag:vox.com,2009-04-24:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0110181bed25860f 2009-04-23T04:39:41Z 2009-04-26T18:14:36Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Aegean moon

So very much has been consuming my energies for the last few weeks I have been sadly neglectful of this blog. A wonderful Kidz Aartz group spent a week with me making clay wind chimes & pins and acrylic paintings. I've been working on the new webs...

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]]> Art Expo and MOMA tag:vox.com,2009-03-16:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011017b21c2e860e 2009-03-16T16:03:15Z 2009-03-16T17:06:54Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Michael Albert @ Art Expo Monet's Water lilies Old Friends: Brancusi Frida-&-I

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed. Elbert Hubbard Jim & I had a whirlwind trip to Art Expo at the Javitts Center in NYC two weeks ago: our annual pilgrimage to immerse ourselves in an amazing array of diverse art. Individ...

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]]> Flamingos beckon tag:vox.com,2009-02-25:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011017ac2e06860e 2009-02-25T01:03:51Z 2009-04-06T15:13:12Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Study in White

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails. -Romain Rolland I am yearning to be in a warm place, even though skiing in our sun-drenched Vermont woods was lovely today. So I am painting sunflowers, continuing with the tr...

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]]> Kids Aartz tag:vox.com,2009-02-23:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0110180acb0a860f 2009-02-23T14:58:11Z 2009-02-23T19:44:08Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Ms. Maddy working on her raised gesso image. Wyatt beginning his Barred Owl Landscape Painting Mardi Gras on parade in New England snow.

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...

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]]> Sunflower Starry Night tag:vox.com,2009-02-21:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011017ab4b67860e 2009-02-21T17:07:41Z 2009-02-23T20:49:01Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Starry-sky-sunflower-partly-done

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. Kahlil Gibran What a thought. It is such a pleasure to be discovering beauty here. Not laborious at all. This is the next phase... Still not finished, but I am really loving it....

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]]> Machu Picchu here we come! tag:vox.com,2009-02-09:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0110162cbb13860c 2009-02-09T21:34:29Z 2009-02-12T19:30:05Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

2006 Small Planet Artist's Journey to Peru

Life is either a great adventure- or nothing. Helen Keller It's been three years since my last trip to Peru, and I am SO ready to go again! This time we're adding a week to the trip- 7 extra days in Arequipa and Colca! The extra time allows us ...

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]]> Thanks, Winston! tag:vox.com,2009-02-08:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b011016671ba4860d 2009-02-08T00:37:28Z 2009-02-09T21:15:47Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Happy are the painters for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope shall keep them company to the end of the day. -Winston Churchill Today was a teaching day for me. Saturday and Sunday 9-5 at the Community College of Ver...

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]]> Hand tiles, phrase tiles, memory tiles. tag:vox.com,2009-01-16:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0109815eb89e000d 2009-01-11T00:38:56Z 2009-01-18T18:06:25Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Creating a Handcast Many hands Monument proposal

I have been working SO INTENSELY on this project... An elaborate grant proposal that I almost got. I was one of three finalists in the state, but not the final one. Darn! What I pitched was an installation of tile, each one created from casts of...

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