Growth and learning...

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:46:55 -0400

The Art of Making Paste Papers

I am learning all the time.
The tombstone will be my diploma.

-Eartha Kitt
Working with children; sharing the learning process at its very beginning is an education and delight unto itself. So fresh and full of promise and discovery.

Holding the pencil strangely really helps

I've spent the last week with a wonderful group of young students in the

Getting ready to paint

studio. It's fun, it's satisfying. What unique ideas they come up with: young & old; naive and sophisticated. Growth is visible, tangible and exciting.
We worked with paint in a variety of ways, both watercolor and acrylic, and also worked with combed and stamped paste papers. My first time doing that, so it truly was a learning experience for me as well.

Now I am eager for an immersion into color.
Both on the canvas, and in the world. Spring is just barely beginning to awaken in Vermont. I know the azaleas and cherries are blooming a few hours south of here, but we still have snow in the shadows in our woodland home.
Spring travels north 16 miles a day.

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The powerful tides of cyber-change

nobody@vox.com(Liza Myers) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:14:50 -0400

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
This is such a fascinating process, Alyson Stanfield's brilliant Blog tour...
It's a book promotion, but also an education. I have enjoyed and learned so much reading the queries and responses that are being posted on the various blogs. Todays was on http://pocketfullofcolors.blogspot.com, the blog of Robin Maria Pedrero, a Florida artist who paints imagery with powerful pastel colors.
I already have Alyson's book,and it is a terrific, informative resource for the artist trying to figure out how to step forward in the world. There's a link to where you can get her book on my blog.
To travel along on the blog tour, go to http://www.artbizblog.com and sign up!
Pretty amazing how the world becomes more and more connected through cyber space.

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