Printmaking Flower Cards

"Pink, Green & Yellow, and Yellow Flower Print Cards" 2012. Soft rubber cut print.

Soon I will post bundles of these cards for sale on my etsy shop. I hope you like them!

Happy New Year!

More Art Available to Buy on Etsy.com Now!

I am pleased to tell you that I have added 4 recent works to my Etsy.com shop available to the public now. Please tell your friends and anyone you think would be interested in buying a piece or two! As always, feedback is welcome on this blog. I hope you enjoy my work as much as I enjoy making it :)

Here is the address of my Etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LizaStudioArtCrafts

 "Good Morning" The Bell with Lemons and a Rooster-Shaped Egg Cup- Soft Pastels: $90

 "White Pottery with Flowers and an Apple"- Soft Pastels- Framed: $90

 "The House with the Snowy Hill" Nighttime Snowscape Scene- Watercolor: $25

"The Bowl with Limes and a Tomato"- Framed- Soft Pastels: $90

Become a customer of Liza's Studio Arts and Crafts today! 

http://www.etsy.com/shop/LizaStudioArtCrafts

Wow!

Dear readers,

On Saturday December 8th, my blog, lizastudioart.blogspot.com, received a grand total of 324 page views! I also have a running total of 1,692 page views for all time, for this blog. Very exciting!

I will continue to have more updates as I create more new, and exciting art :) Please tell your friends! Also, soon I plan on posting more art for sale at my etsy shop. Here is that address again: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LizaStudioArtCrafts . Three different prints are for sale there online and I would love it if one of my blog readers became a customer!

Again, any feedback- comments, questions or constructive criticism is welcome.

Thank you, readers!

All the best,
Liza

 

The other weekend, I made this wreath at my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Farm. It's nice to walk by it every time I go through the door.

Gold Snowflake!

This is hanging in our office from the ceiling. I think it looks pretty nice. What do you think?

The post below about the Snowflakes art class I taught, is updated as of 12/10/12. Enjoy!

My Snowflakes/Snowscapes Art Class

Snowflakes and Snowscapes Art Class at the Tracy Art Center in Old Saybrook, CT- December 2012.

I read this book to the kids at the beginning of the class. It had some great pictures and it was also awesome because it rhymed. Here is an excerpt:

"He said, 'I'm a snow dude,
as wild as wild can be.
Run as fast as you can run-
you won't catch up with me!'"...

"Magic sparkled in the air-
the wind began to moan.
'It's very simple, everyone:
build snow dudes of your own!'"

Happy 1st night of Chanukkah, everyone!

3D Snowflakes!

 

"3D Snowflakes" 2012. White & colored copy paper with some crayon.

Teaching these to kids tomorrow- I suspect I will be doing a lot of stapling...

Winter Snowscape Watercolor Painting

"The House With the Snowy Hill" 2012. Watercolor on colored paper.

I will be teaching these watercolor snowscapes along with giant 3D snowflakes this weekend in my December Saturday Morning Seasonal Art Classes for children ages 7-10 at the Tracy Art Center in Old Saybrook, CT, where I have been teaching art classes since October 2012. Starting in January I will be teaching adult soft pastels on Saturdays, also at the Tracy Art Center. I'm pretty excited about it. Today I taught people at my work how to make the giant 3D snowflakes and we made 12 in about 2 1/2 hours! (Including one spray painted gold!) We hung up a few in our office, so it looks more festive now. Be on the look out for pictures soon of the giant 3D snowflakes!

New Pastel Painting, Almost Done

"Good Morning" 2012 (Almost finished!). Soft pastels. You're looking at a rooster shaped egg cup!

"Sophie" & "Dad" 2008. Charcoal on paper. These are meant to be two separate drawings but I made them side by side. These are from a group of charcoal portraits that were final projects from my Drawing I class at Smith College.

"Pastel Tree" 2009. Soft pastels. This was one of my first pastel paintings, made at a one-day workshop at the Mystic Art Center.

"Iron and Monkey" 2009. Watercolor pencils.

Almost Done!

Any thoughts? I still need to fix a few things but hopefully by next week it will be done!

Pastels Work in Progress

Check back soon to see finished painting!

Happy Halloween!

Liza's Original Prints Available to Buy Now on Etsy.com!

Hello again!

I have very exciting news! I have just set up my own Etsy shop! I am selling 4 prints that I have already shown on this blog. They are the following:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/LizaStudioArtCrafts

"The Orchid" Photo Lithography Print on high quality paper framed in classic black (3 available in stock)
$100

"Buddha with Flowers" Linoleum- Cut Print in 12 colors on high quality paper framed in classic black (3 available in stock)
$100

"Sailboat with Buoy" Lithography Print on Bavarian Limestone on white paper framed with glass in classic black (4 available in stock)
$75

"Sailboat with Buoy" Lithography Print on Bavarian Limestone on tan paper framed with glass in classic black (1 available in stock)
$75















I would love it if one of my blog/website readers was my first customer on Etsy! Please tell your friends and anyone you think would be interested in buying one of my works. Please visit my shop and leave comments if you would like or comment on this blog post. Thanks! -Liza

Here is the link again: http://www.etsy.com/shop/LizaStudioArtCrafts

"Buddha with Flowers" 2011. Linoleum-cut print. Shown in my sister's dining room, as an example of how the print would work in an everyday setting. Thanks for the photo, Katie!

"Buddha with Flowers" (Off-Kilter Version on the right) 2011. Linoleum-cut print. I mistakenly got this print stuck in the press while printing and this is the result. I think it looks kind psychedelic and makes you do a double take. Shout out to my friend Emily who owns the Off-Kilter Version for sending me a photo of it. Thanks, you're awesome!

“The Cloth” 2012. Soft pastels. Somehow I did this in 4 hours total and it was really fun. What color do you think the cloth is?

“The Bowl with Limes and a Tomato” 2012. Soft pastels.

“Woodstar Has the Best Mochas aka Self-Portrait” 2011. Oil on canvas. It is very large in person.

"Buddha with Flowers"

"Buddha with Flowers" 2011. Linoleum-cut print.

Original inspiration photograph. I love sailing, I will almost never say no to a good sail. So call me if you have a boat, please!

“Sailboat with Buoy” 2011. Lithography Print on a Bavarian Limestone, which is the only stone you can do print-making on. First I drew on the stone using a lithography crayon, everything in black and white and then I had to erase everything by grinding the stone down. Then I had to re-draw just what I wanted in red and it had to match up exactly.

Same print on tan paper, I think it has a different feel to it on the mid-tone paper.

“The Orchid” 2011 (lighter version). Photo Lithography Print. I took the photo in the Smith College Botanical Gardens Greenhouse.

“The Orchid” 2011 (darker version). Photo Lithography Print. I prefer this darker bolder version.

“The Arrow” 2011. Oil on canvas.