As I work at my easel this month, I’m trying some new techniques with silver and gold leaf before painting over top with oils. This piece is called ‘Daughter of Eve’ and is a self portrait I’m working on. There’s a subtle message underlying it, about how we all have so much in common as … Continue reading
Hello friends! I am SO excited to bring to you a short video in which I explain what I’m working on and what my art is about. This was made yesterday, so it’s quite current. Click the link below to watch the video: Jessica Libor Interview 2012 I’ll be sharing more soon about the experience … Continue reading
While visiting Charleston, SC this summer with some dear friends, we stopped at the Robert Lange Studios Fine Art Gallery. Truly a gem of a gallery in the more traditionally touristy town, this gallery represents some of the finest emerging artists. Many of the artists represented are graduates of the New York Academy of Art, … Continue reading
While I was taking this workshop at GCA, I was ready to be done with drawing at this point. I wanted to get to the fun part…painting! There’s something so freeing and satisfying about the brush tip making marks on your canvas, and the ability to manipulate it. However, I disciplined myself to stay on … Continue reading
To continue our journey towards a beautiful painting, we begin where we left off, while still rendering a drawing and getting the values correct. Again, remember that with every finished drawing, painting in the correct value scale becomes easier. Before we dive in again, I wanted to share with you some of the most inspiring … Continue reading
I thought we could take a break from the technicality of the last few posts to step back and be filled with inspiration. These are some of my favorite quotes that get me going when I’m feeling sluggish about my work. I hope you enjoy them and that they inspire you as well! 1. Art … Continue reading
In this post, we’ll make the leap from just drawing in contours and lines to actually rendering. At this stage, you should have a very technically correct line drawing of the model in front of you. It may be a bit smudged and messy from erasing multiple times and retracing over lines, so you may … Continue reading
Hello fellow artists! I’m back on my second post on how to paint like the masters, sharing with you all the notes that took from a particularly helpful workshop at Grand Central Academy of Art that I took this past summer. Let’s pick up where we left off, at the drawing stage. In the previous … Continue reading
In this post I just wanted to share my extensive notes from a very helpful workshop that I took this summer at the Grand Central Academy of Art. Joshua LaRock was the instructor, and it was one of the most thorough and helpful classes I’ve ever taken. Joshua studied for four years at the GCA … Continue reading
Now comes to fun part…paying for school! As I think about the reality of the cost of school, I’m putting a lot of time and energy into applying for every scholarship I can. It’s not my goal to be a starving artist, but I’m also not willing to compromise my vision as an artist in … Continue reading
