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Creative Briefs
Liz Hager
Artist
Creative Briefs is a collection of short pictorial essays on the people, ideas, and techniques that inspire and inform my creative practice.
The Heart of the Madder
Lavender, lilac, plum, periwinkle, eggplant, grape, amethyst, mauve, mulberry. Purple as a category descriptor seems pedestrian by comparison to its offspring, until one learns it derives from the Latin purpura, the Tyrian snail, the subject of a gobsmacking story of...
Birthday Observances: Diego Velázquez
Happy Birthday to Diego Velázquez, who was baptized this day in 1599. Velázquez is truly a painter's painter and there are so many ways in which he has inspired my own practice. Foremost, his brush work and color harmonies! The multitude of reds, pinks, oranges and...
A Painter’s Bookshelf: Headlong
There are some paintings in the history of art that break free, just as some human beings do, from the confines of the particular little world into which they were born. They leave home—they escape from the tradition in which they were formed, and which seem at first...
The History of Lace in Seven Portraits: The Duchess of Alba
No people are more associated with the fashion of black Chantilly Lace than the Spanish. And no painting more delightfully portrays the tradition than Goya’s Duchess of Alba.
Fly Free
What do The Beach Boys have to do with painting?
Is an artwork complete if nobody sees it?
Does an audience complete an artwork?
Behind the curtain… The Rocks of Rhode Island
Behind the scenes creating The Rocks of Rhode Island paintings.
Man With A Mirror: Ian Ingram At artMRKT
In 2011 at the first artMKRT, renegade spin off of the SF Fine Art Fair, I was instantly (and blissfully) seduced by the mighty sirens of Ian Ingram's monumental self portraits. The two on display—Forgotten Offerings and Pierrot—were startling achievements in the...
The Pity of War
A generation that had gone to school on a horse-drawn streetcar stood under the open sky, after WWI, in a countryside in which nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of forces of destructive torrents and explosions, was the...
Rambling Through Diebenkorn Country
Mistakes can’t be erased but they move you from your present position. —Richard Diebenkorn, from "Notes to myself on beginning a painting" To me there is no painter who more evocatively captures the essence of the California landscape than Richard Diebenkorn. Through...
A Painter’s Bookshelf: Bad Boy
Working toward that moment—what painters call the frozen moment—led me to a new way of narrative painting. Painting is about trying to get to that instant that is pregnant with some special kind of energy. Done right, there's an exquisite tension in the painting...
A Painter’s Bookshelf: Daily Rituals
Recollect that only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action—and consequently accumulate grain on grain of wilful choice like a very miser—never forgetting how one link dropped undoes indefinite number. —William James I...
Notes from the Studio: Wise Athena
Note: A version of this post originally appeared on the blog Venetian Red. For the past several months Athena, the Greek goddess of war, civilization, wisdom, strength, strategy, crafts, justice and skill (a versatile goddess if ever there was one) has been much on my...
