Barbie’s Friends Vox 2008-09-05T17:56:22Z tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4142c96e4685e/explore/friends/library/posts/ Mud tag:vox.com,2008-09-05:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fae8dc00e1000b 2008-09-05T17:49:56Z 2008-09-05T17:56:22Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Mud 16-tons

Life is real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal From dust thou art to dust returnest Was not written of the soul. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For some reason I memorized that quote in middle school, and it remains implanted in m...

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]]> Moving towards the finish. tag:vox.com,2008-09-01:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fae8daaf62000b 2008-09-01T05:05:58Z 2008-09-01T05:11:29Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair. Come to it any way but lightly. Steven King Andy Towl says that he is spiraling into infinity. I am so grateful to him for that vision: an ever exp...

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]]> Almost the last day of August. The... tag:vox.com,2008-08-30:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fa96964c7f0003 2008-08-30T15:26:12Z 2008-09-01T04:58:54Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom Last day of August. The past week has been spent getting ready for classes- Intro to Studio, Drawing I and Intro to 2D design. So I am thinking intensely about art concepts and how to share them effectively. That and finishing up urgent graphic d...

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]]> When you have a moment... tag:vox.com,2008-08-26:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fad6a6b24c0005 2008-08-26T13:28:47Z 2008-08-26T13:41:10Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom This is a fascinating video- bizarre also. It's full of unexpected mutations and amazing transitions. Like life. Well.. perhaps not quite. It was partly done in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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]]> Progress, skunks and technical difficulties.... tag:vox.com,2008-08-25:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fae8d89ffa000b 2008-08-25T01:51:36Z 2008-08-25T05:08:03Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Coral reef watercolor 14" x 41"

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes. The image is a little dark, but if you compare it with the photo from a few days ago, progress is visible. I'm having so...

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]]> Limited editions tag:vox.com,2008-08-21:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fae8d7acfa000b 2008-08-21T16:52:10Z 2008-08-23T15:59:45Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Lillian's Nest, limited edition archival giclée on canvas editionof 90 Pacific Beach Treasures, limited edition archival giclée on canvas, edition of 90

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth... not going all the way, and not starting. Buddah I know I have used that quote before, but there's also this one: The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endi...

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]]> Coral Reefs again and again. tag:vox.com,2008-08-21:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fa9692e8110002 2008-08-21T00:43:51Z 2008-08-21T04:47:12Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

My painting table and research library complete with sea salt.

Long is the road from inception to completion. -Moliere Finally almost finished with the first illustration on a two year old project. Just too many things along the way that seemed more urgent. Feeling seriously guilty for not having already com...

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]]> Harvest: Tangible and Intangible tag:vox.com,2008-08-17:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b0100a7f2f0c8000e 2008-08-17T18:18:17Z 2008-08-17T18:28:16Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Pepper Harvest this morning Castleton Watercolor final critique- a beginning student's work.

“Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is th...

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]]> Defying gravity tag:vox.com,2008-08-16:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fad6a3b1870005 2008-08-16T04:47:51Z 2008-08-16T04:52:21Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity -- for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?” - Antoine de Ste. Exupery One wonders if this pace will continue to intensify. Gravity is useful. Gravity is a starting point...

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]]> Summer School tag:vox.com,2008-08-04:asset-6a00d09e453ffbbe2b00fa968da90c0002 2008-08-04T12:04:46Z 2008-08-04T12:04:46Z Liza Myers http://elizabethmyers.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. -Doris Lessing That's my hope for the students in this new class: that with the effort we put forth in the next two weeks we will begin...

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