I worked on and have been touching up this scratch board image of “2 zebras”.
Also
IF image, word of week: Atmosphere
This is a pastel painting
Enjoy
Interested in any of these works, Please let me know.
lisa@lisasart.com
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works of this week
Thursday, August 26th, 2010Fly Upward
Saturday, August 7th, 2010“Fly Upward”
We had a wildlife rescue in our yard recently. I was looking out the window and noticed our neighbor’s cat stalking and jumping away from something in our garden. I went out to look but didn’t see anything at first. My husband called me back out when he found it. It was a young robin that had one wing slightly hurt and couldn’t fly. I called animal control and they came to pick it up. They took it to the local wildlife rehabilitation.
I called a couple of days later for an update on the robin. It turned out that they were able to help it and eventually it moved to a fostering home to heal and be released when well. She mentioned the young ones have a pretty good chance of recovery and release. It was one of a few robins that had been brought in to the wildlife rehab.
Good to know there are those out there to lend a helping hand. We felt good about our deed.
In these times it’s a good point to remember that there is help and hope.
Life is meant to be lived to the fullest.
Bring out your talents and share it with the others.
A small act can make so much of a difference.
So stretch your wings, strengthen them to the wind and Fly.
Feature Art/product
“Snow Leopard” is my latest scratch board image I created from a photo I took at the zoo of the snow leopard.
This art work will be among my other scratch board works presented in my upcoming “White on Black” 2011 calendar, which will be available for purchase.
More details to come about purchasing “White on Black” 2011 calendar.
You can see the other scratch board works at my Scratch Board page.
I’ll be exhibiting my works in September at the Pawtucket Arts Festivals Open Studios days. See info in Art News below.
Check out Great Gift items at Lisa’s Art & Horses
Please feel free to contact me with questions on art/products and/or comments at lisa@lisasart.com
Art News
Lisa Guarino, dba Lisa’s Art & Horses
Exhibit at Pawtucket Arts Festival
Open Studio Days:
September 25, 11:00am- 5:00pm
September 26, 11:00am- 5:00pm
558-560 Mineral Spring Ave., Pawtucket, RI
The Equine Art Guild’s News
Several artists in the EAG were a part of this unique tribute to the horse. Click on the image above to read all about it and the artists who participated in it’s creation, as well as see where it will be coming to a location near you in the coming year!
Visit The Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com .
Soldier Portraits
Darla Dixon organized a group of artists who will create no-charge compassionate portraits for the families who have lost a loved one in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. We are looking for artists to join our efforts, and also for non-artists who will help spread the word about this free service and token of our gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much.”
For more information, contact Darla (darla@darladixon.com) or visit SoldierPortraits.org.
Other News
WBO Gift Shop
Shop the WBO Gift Shop and help WBO and members of WBO. We have added
new items to the gift shop and will continue to add more and change
items.
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How I created “Great Horned Owl” scratchboard
Monday, June 7th, 2010“How I Created Great Horned Owl scratch board”
One of the mediums I’ve really liked working in is scratch board.
Scratch board is a board with a thin layer of clay that is then covered with India ink. A sharp tool is used to scratch out lines and create an image.
An image is created focusing on the light detail areas. It’s a reverse from working in other mediums such as charcoal or pen and Ink where an artist draws black lines and dark areas of an image on a white paper.
I use an exacto knife to scratch out the image.
I’ll show you my work at each stage as I created “Great Horned Owl” in this medium.
Here is the reference photo I picked to use for this image. I photographed this Great Horned Owl at an Audubon Society exhibit.
I started by deciding where I wanted the owl on the scratch board. As in the photo reference, I decided to have the owl image vertical on the board like a portrait.
As a rule, I don’t place the image in the exact middle of the board but just off center. It creates a better composition overall.
I then start to scratch out lines of the owl. Because I’m working on a black background my focus is on the light detailed areas of the image.
Here is a detail image of the face of the owl with eye and beak. I scratched out a line for the pupil and the eyebrow and light areas to define the face.
I worked the image of the owl and branch that I chose to place it on. In the reference photo the owl is on a perch.
I like to place the animal in a more natural setting so I placed him on a branch.
Building on a natural setting, I added a moon peeking out of clouds and a thin twig above to indicate more of the tree.
Lastly, I added a slightly lower branch to fill the space at the bottom of the board.
I’m happy with the final image. I then signed my name at the right hand corner of the board.
That’s how “Great Horned Owl” was created.
Thank you
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Art News
BankRI exhibit: scratch board works by Lisa Wald Guarino.
The Equine Art Guild’s News
“Le Cadeau du Cheval“
Several artists in the EAG were a part of this unique tribute to the horse. Click on the image above to read all about it and the artists who participated in it’s creation, as well as see where it will be coming to a location near you in the coming year!
Visit The Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com .
Soldier Portraits
Darla Dixon organized a group of artists who will create no-charge compassionate portraits for the families who have lost a loved one in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. We are looking for artists to join our efforts, and also for non-artists who will help spread the word about this free service and token of our gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much.”
For more information, contact Darla (darla@darladixon.com) or visit SoldierPortraits.org.
Other News
WBO Gift Shop
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Kites and Wind
Saturday, April 10th, 2010Happy Spring
“Kites and Wind”
My girls received some kites from one of their uncles recently. So on a warm sunny Saturday afternoon we took the girls to Chase Farm, which has land open to the public. It consists of an old farm house, fields, a flower garden and a pond.
We walked up a field to a small hill and tried out the kites. The wind blew off and on. Our first attempts seemed minimal and only got kites up in spurts. There was someone else with a kite that was able to get the kite way up high. I wondered how. It looks so easy when others do it. We tried a few times and different methods. Eventually and amazingly we got one kite up and high into the wind. It was great.
I thought about the wind. It moves things along. The wind can fill and push a kite up and in many directions. The wind can carry a kite way up high into the sky to float above. It can go from being a very gentle wind to a strong flowing wind. It feels good sometimes to feel the wind.
My thoughts wonder where the wind can take me. Sometimes I feel like the wind is guiding me along my path.
“Fill me up and take me where I am to go.”
Feature Art/product:
My art exhibit at One Turks Head Place, Providence.
It was a wonderful exhibit with BankRI. The reception was great. It felt great to connect with others and receive their comments and compliments.
My BankRI exhibit closed this past Wednesday.
One can still view it at my scratch board page, though. Each piece is for sale.
Leave a comment at my blog on which is your favorite.
Check out Great Gift items at Lisa’s Art & Horses
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Art News
The Equine Art Guild’s News
Several artists in the EAG were a part of this unique tribute to the horse. Click on the image above to read all about it and the artists who participated in it’s creation, as well as see where it will be coming to a location near you in the coming year!
Visit The Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com .
Soldier Portraits
Darla Dixon organized a group of artists who will create no-charge compassionate portraits for the families who have lost a loved one in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. We are looking for artists to join our efforts, and also for non-artists who will help spread the word about this free service and token of our gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much.”
For more information, contact Darla (darla@darladixon.com) or visit SoldierPortraits.org.
Other News
Shop the WBO Gift Shop and help WBO and members of WBO. We have added
new items to the gift shop and will continue to add more and change
items.
Before you go shopping somewhere else, check out the WBO Gift Shop.
My exhibit at One Turks Head Place, Providence
Friday, March 19th, 2010Yesterday was the reception for my exhibit.(Mar 18, Providence Gallery Night)
It’s at One Turks Head Place, Providence. (downtown)
It was a wonderful evening. Great connecting. Some familiar faces and some new faces to meet.
How awesome. My first solo show.
Here are a couple of pics.
Enjoy
Solo Exhibit: sharing pics
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Signs of spring are here in the Northeast. Birds are starting to return to the area from the south and crocuses are peeking through the ground. Ah, spring will be here in full bloom soon.
“Solo exhibit at BankRI”
This has been a wonderful time for me. My first solo exhibit.
It’s been great to share my work with others. Our family and some friends have stopped in to see it. The works are all 8 X 10 in size. The works were hung not so much on the same line, but some up and some down from one another. A neat display. People seem to easily go from one to the next as they gaze upon them. Good to see and hear their comments.
Here is one of the pictures I took at the exhibit.
See more pictures at Scratch Board Art page
It will be moving to One Turks Head Place March 4. It will be there for the month of March. See details at: Art News.
To see this exhibit online go here.
Exhibit details, see Art News below.
I’d like to invite you to leave a comment on which one is “your” favorite:
Thanks
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Art News
BankRI exhibit: scratch board works by Lisa Wald Guarino.
Feb/Mar 2010.
Providence:
February: Pitman Street Gallery. (near Eastside Market food store)
Hours: M-W 8:30am-5pm,Thurs, Friday 8:30am-5pm
March: One Turks Head Place (downtown Prov. )
Hours: M-W 8:30am-5pm,Thurs, Friday 8:30am-5pm,
Third Thursday: March 18, Reception, Meet the artist and see her scratch board work. And enjoy some cheese and wine. Hours 5pm-9pm.
The Equine Art Guild’s News
Several artists in the EAG were a part of this unique tribute to the horse. Click on the image above to read all about it and the artists who participated in it’s creation, as well as see where it will be coming to a location near you in the coming year!
Visit The Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com .
Soldier Portraits
Darla Dixon organized a group of artists who will create no-charge compassionate portraits for the families who have lost a loved one in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. We are looking for artists to join our efforts, and also for non-artists who will help spread the word about this free service and token of our gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much.”
For more information, contact Darla (darla@darladixon.com) or visit SoldierPortraits.org.
Other News
WBO Gift Shop
Shop the WBO Gift Shop and help WBO and members of WBO. We have added
new items to the gift shop and will continue to add more and change
items.
Before you go shopping somewhere else, check out the WBO Gift Shop.
Sharing a view through my work
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010“Sharing a view through my work”
*The afternoon sun shines at a lower angle and washes over the grass and brushes in the pasture. Long shadows are formed since the sun is lower in the sky. A horse grazes peaceful in a corner of the pasture. The sunlight filters through and over it’s long beautiful flowing tail as well as across it’s sturdy back.
*Snow covered ground and trees still are visible as night comes on.
One Turns into a long driveway toward the warmth of home. 
*Nature clothes it’s creatures with beautiful patterns to match their surroundings.
These are just some of the things I see in the world. Through my art I share this view of the world with others.
I love James Herriot’s book series about his veterinarian adventures. One of his books is titled, “All creatures, Great and Small”. I relate to that well.
I share the things I see and the different points of view of what I see in my art work.
Enjoy seeing what you see there.
Place and Times of My Art exhibit is below in Art news.
View Exhibit online at: Nature’s Treasurers in scratch board
Check out Great Gift items at Lisa’s Art & Horses
Please feel free to contact me with questions on art/products and/or comments at lisa@lisasart.com
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to friends and family. Just click the”Forward to a Friend” link below.
Art News
BankRI exhibit: scratch board works by Lisa Wald Guarino.
Feb/Mar 2010.
Providence:
February: 137 Pitman Street . (near Eastside Market food store)
Hours: M-W 8:30am-5pm,Thurs, Friday 8:30am-5pm
March: One Turks Head Place (downtown Prov. )
Hours: M-W 8:30am-5pm,Thurs, Friday 8:30am-5pm,
Third Thursday: March 18, Reception, Meet the artist and see her scratch board work. And enjoy some cheese and wine. Hours 5pm-9pm.
The Equine Art Guild’s News
Several artists in the EAG were a part of this unique tribute to the horse. Click on the image above to read all about it and the artists who participated in it’s creation, as well as see where it will be coming to a location near you in the coming year!
Visit The Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com .
Soldier Portraits
Darla Dixon organized a group of artists who will create no-charge compassionate portraits for the families who have lost a loved one in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. We are looking for artists to join our efforts, and also for non-artists who will help spread the word about this free service and token of our gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much.”
For more information, contact Darla (darla@darladixon.com) or visit SoldierPortraits.org.
Other News
WBO Gift Shop
Shop the WBO Gift Shop and help WBO and members of WBO. We have added
new items to the gift shop and will continue to add more and change
items.
Before you go shopping somewhere else, check out the WBO Gift Shop.
The Gift of Giving
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009Happy Holidays
“The Gift of Giving”
It’s sort of a “give in” that this time of year is filled with gift giving.
Yet, Let’s take some time and embrace the gifts, big and small and all around us from anywhere to anyone.
I joined the local MOMs club about 5 yrs ago. This group is part of a national group of Moms Helping Moms. Every year one of the groups “service projects” is Adopt-a-Family. Every year the group organizes it, puts it out to members, collects items and delivers gifts to a local social services organization. Every year I’ve proudly and gratefully participated in it.
It feels incredibly good to help some one. And to model that for our children is important, too. I’ve taken my daughter with me to the store to pick out a gift for another child. I can see in her eyes how she feels good about it too.
How blessed we all are to have each other to help one another.
How wonderful to fill a family’s holiday, when it is needed most.
How grateful for our own holiday celebrations and gifts.
Bless everyone.
Feature Art/product
“Tiny Snow Caps” is a scratch board image I created from a photo I took in winter. Dried up Black-eyed Susans’s stem and center covered with snow. Little treasures in every season.
See this image and a few others at my BankRi exhibit in February and March 2010, Providence. Details in Art News section.
Check out Great Gift items at Lisa’s Art & Horses
Please feel free to contact me with questions on art/products and/or comments at lisa@lisasart.com
Art News
BankRI exhibit: scratch board works by Lisa Wald Guarino.
Feb/Mar 2010.
Providence:
February: Pitman Street Gallery. (near Eastside Market food store)
Hours: M-W 8:30am-5pm,Thurs, Friday 8:30am-5pm
March: One Turks Head Place (downtown Prov. )
Hours: M-W 8:30am-5pm,Thurs, Friday 8:30am-5pm,
Third Thursday: March 18, Reception, Meet the artist and see her scratch board work. And enjoy some cheese and wine. Hours 5pm-9pm.
The Equine Art Guild’s News
Several artists in the EAG were a part of this unique tribute to the horse. Click on the image above to read all about it and the artists who participated in it’s creation, as well as see where it will be coming to a location near you in the coming year!
Visit The Equine Art Guild website at www.equineartguild.com .
Soldier Portraits
Darla Dixon organized a group of artists who will create no-charge compassionate portraits for the families who have lost a loved one in Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. We are looking for artists to join our efforts, and also for non-artists who will help spread the word about this free service and token of our gratitude to families who have sacrificed so much.”
For more information, contact Darla (darla@darladixon.com) or visit SoldierPortraits.org.
Other News
WBO Gift Shop
Shop the WBO Gift Shop and help WBO and members of WBO. We have added
new items to the gift shop and will continue to add more and change
items.
Before you go shopping somewhere else, check out the WBO Gift Shop.
Works in Progress
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Ring Tailed Lemur, scratch board
Works in Progress: great horned owl
Friday, June 26th, 2009Here’s “Great Horned Owl” scratch board.
