6 posts tagged “liza myers gallery”
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,
you must first create the universe.
-Carl Sagan
For lunch we take a walk up to the ice- cream store, and have a picnic by the lovely swimming pool belonging to the Brandon Inn. Then we stop by the Inside Scoop, an ice-cream and antiques store, with cool toys, games, fascinating trinkets, Mexican folk art and fine antiques. Lots of inspiration to be found there, and great ice-cream too!
Not a bad way to spend a summer day!
This year the Brandon Artist's Guild's community project is titled "Starring Brandon" so we chose that for our Aartz
to create sunshine
-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 triptych that I have already begun. This morning I poured layers for the background of a new amarylis image. This one will be a pink flamingo with a pink amarylis.
Study in Pink.
Should be fun.
would understand this.
to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx
Every day we walked up into town and had a picnic at either The Inside Scoop or Briggs Carriage Bookstore. Both locations are chock-full of inspiring art, from the Mexican Folk art retablos and Day of the Dead constructions at the Inside Scoop, to the huge paintings, great photos and great books on the walls of the bookstore. Inspiration abounds in Brandon.
Art education is often the first program cut in elementary schools. Those who slice and dice budgets don't realize how important it is to allow children to be creative just for the sake of exercising that part of the brain. An art program must teach more than technique, and should not have finite answers. Checking off a list of manual skills is not the objective in my classes, though that quantifiable goal allows administrators to justify the art budget.
Solving problems through creative thinking is how we got to the moon, how the wheel was invented, how we learned to grow wheat in the Fertile Crescent. Don't mean to sound preachy- just passionate. I am an artist and have been since childhood, but being a painter/sculptor is not the only goal of visual arts programs!
Listen to your muse!
What we are familiar with we cease to see.
I've never been one to be constantly rearranging the furniture, running out to get a new hairdo or outfit. Probably that's because I'd rather be MAKING new
Now the newest addition: jewelry from the hardworking hands and inspired creativity of several artists who I know. And we will be adding more!
It's such a delight to see these intricate treasures even though finding appropriate display furniture has been a challenge. We're working on new sculpture pedestals as well.
This piece is so muscular. I feel stronger just looking at it. He is singing along with the passionate rhythm of the drum. Coil built and fired clay, painted with acrylic.
I am on task, on track, completely focused on my upcoming show at Gallery in the Field, opening in December. That, and the three classes I am teaching. Much progress on all fronts.
Such an artful week: two openings and the Brandon Artists Guild Auction. A whirlwind of excellent, exciting art and dialogue.
There is no development physically or intellectually
without effort, and effort means work.
~ Calvin Coolidge
Ah, a wordy and insightful quotation from a laconic Vermonter!
From the pile of dried-out earthenware that I bludgeoned into smithereens, to this shapely coil pot, there has been growth. And there has been work. And it's not over yet. Many hours of clay prep, coiling, paddling, pinching and forming. The form is still incomplete. She needs fingers and toes, and she will hold the moon.
Then comes the firing and coloring.
I LOVE THIS PROCESS, and the end results as well.
She reclines, like the cliffs from which her image was taken.
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