lisahuntart | February 3, 2012
Whenever I tell my friends that it’s Hermit-time, they know I’ll be largely unplugged and holed-up in my studio. If any of you follow my posts on Facebook and Twitter, you can almost identify these creative intermezzos by my virtual absences…
Category: Bird Oracle, Family, Inspiration, Spirit Drawings |
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Tags: artwork, creativity, family, food, Ghosts & Spirits Tarot, Jungian, kitchen, life is art, magpie, pizza, shapeshifter, spirit drawings, studio, watercolors, work
lisahuntart | January 20, 2012
January is turning into a studio hermit month as drawing and painting have slowly supplanted the hullaballoo of the holidays. Swallow-Shapeshifter had been on the board for a while due to other pressing commitments. But the “break” allowed its after-image-glow to seer into the depths of consciousness and materialize into a more thoughtful, well-executed image…
Category: Bird Oracle, Books, Family, Inspiration, Life Lessons |
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Tags: animal, artwork, bird, cozy corner, creativity, fairy tales, inspiration, Lisa Hunt, shapeshifter, sunny, watercolors
lisahuntart | January 5, 2012
The transition from 2011 to 2012 was a mix of excitement and tumult. We finally finished our kitchen, with a mere few days to spare before visitors descended on Chez Hunt-Kramerville. During that period of “out with the old/in with the new”–my press sheets for Ghosts & Spirits Tarot finally arrived…
Category: Announcements, Family, Ghosts & Spirits Tarot |
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lisahuntart | December 2, 2011
After taking a week off to work on remodeling the kitchen, I came back to the studio with an abundance of stored-up creative energy. The result was successive, almost explosive dances with my pencils…
Category: Custom Drawings, Family, Spirit Drawings |
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Tags: alphabeasts, artwork, bird, creativity, drawing, spirit drawings
lisahuntart | November 18, 2011
Artist and model Tamara Newman sent me a beautiful photo of herself to use as inspiration for a bird shapeshifter piece. I immediately knew I had to draw her. I loved how she pulled up her hair and looked to the sky as if she was about to open her wings and fly into the heavens of endless possibilities…
Category: Announcements, Bird Oracle, Family, Inspiration |
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Tags: animal, artwork, bird, creativity, drawing, Lisa Hunt, oracle, shapeshifter, Tamara Newman, watercolors
lisahuntart | November 4, 2011
I’m not a big fan of using photographic reference. For me, I feel it tends to impede my creative flow. But sometimes a photograph will provide the artist with a peek at the world from a new point of view. When I rely too much on my own mental resources without refreshing the internal well, there is a potential for stagnation and redundancy…
Category: Announcements, Bird Oracle, Family, Inspiration |
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Tags: contest, creativity, drawing, Emily Carding, Flamingo Gardens, humble, inspiration, Lesley Morrison, Moxie Nox, painting, parrot, parrot-shapeshifter, photographic reference, PTA Reflections Contest, shapeshifter, The Healing Wisdom of Birds, watercolors
lisahuntart | September 30, 2011
Here are the first four “spirit drawings” I’ve rendered for customers. I really enjoy receiving keywords such as “bird”, “bear”, “Shaman Spirit” and turning them into art. Like the custom soul drawings of last year, these are created with a spontaneous flourish—using the recipient’s words as my guide…
Category: Announcements, Custom Drawings, Family, Spirit Drawings |
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Tags: artwork, creativity, drawing, Lisa Hunt, sketching, spirit drawings
lisahuntart | September 21, 2011
I always start with big bold watercolor washes, letting the paint flow as it will. It’s very much a “wait and see what happens” exercise and is the least premeditated part of the piece. I used several different blues, greens, and reds to achieve layers of rich hues. I purposely left some whites of the paper—it just felt right…
Category: Announcements, Bird Oracle |
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Tags: artwork, creativity, facebook, inspiration, Lisa Hunt, painting, painting process, shapeshifter, swan, watercolors
lisahuntart | September 12, 2011
As many of you may know, I recently spent a few weeks up North visiting my childhood haunts in Connecticut. Fortunately I was able to capture some beautiful photos before Hurricane Irene descended on the woods and wreaked havoc in my old neighborhood. My poor parents lost a lot of trees, as to be expected in an area inhabited by so many of these formidable giants.
Category: Bird Oracle, Family, Inspiration, Life Lessons, Out and About, Pets, Travel |
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Tags: animal, artwork, bird nest, birds, Connecticut, creativity, inspiration, Lisa Hunt, painting, Patrick Dougherty, shapeshifter, The Florence Griswold Museum, trees, watercolors, woods
lisahuntart | August 22, 2011
Here I am posing with the legendary Stuart Kaplan, tarot authority and founder of U.S. Games Systems. I enjoyed having lunch with this charismatic genius who has brought so many visionary decks and products to fruition. He knows his stuff! Not only that, but the brownie ala mode that Stuart had ordered for me was the best I ever had…
Category: Announcements, tarot, Travel |
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Tags: Animals Divine Tarot, artwork, Bobbie Bensaid, creativity, games, Ghosts & Spirits Tarot, inspiration, Lynn Araujo, Pamela Colman Smith, Paula Palmer, Stuart Kaplan, tarot art, The Encyclopedia of Tarot, U.S. Games Systems