Lisa Mertins’ Life Illustrated » 2010 » January

Monday movie pick

I’m lucky to be close to Palm Springs and even luckier to have a friend in Amy that invited me to see this French film during the recent festival. Oh, I liked it! The plot, involving a hotel maid in the South of France (oui!) trying to break out of her station in life by [...]

when does an art gallery feel like a china shop?

When a nervous, novice printmaker is surrounded by seasoned artists! I’m blaming it on being left handed. They say left-handed people on average die younger than righties. Is it because most tools and such are made for right-handed people? Maybe lefties are just clumsier. I know I am. Clumsy I mean (and it’s not always [...]

…is it raining with you?

This image and the reference to the Eurythmics song “Here comes the rain again” (and didn’t you always wonder what Lennox was saying in that line?) will make more sense after the jump but for aesthetic purposes, I’m leading with my preferred image again. I’m proud of myself because I made this image happen in [...]

more wilderness

I feel like I’m getting somewhere with my personal work in this series. There is a consistency because of the linocut element and the monoprint aspect makes sense to me. Not to mention, the emotion behind the imagery is almost exactly what I want to express. I’ve made peace with the representational aspect and I’m [...]

Ah. Wilderness…

I’m not sure I’d call this an illustration exactly. While the word prompt wilderness from Illustration Friday was in my head while I was creating this, it seems too cryptic even for my definition of illustration.