Lisa Call – Textile Paintings

Artful Home + Make an Offer – a fine week for art sales

January 25, 2012

Pathways VI: Spring Thaw ©1998 Lisa Call 45 x 72 inches Textile Painting (hand dyed fabric, cotton batting, cotton thread) Available on Artful Home Studio Sale It’s time for the twice a year sale at Artful Home. I take this opportunity to offer some of my older artwork at a discount to the artful home [...]

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Join me in Philadelphia for an Exhibit and Workshop

January 24, 2012

Philadelphia Exhibit In March and April of 2012, Philadelphia is transformed into a city of Fiber. Exhibits, conferences and workshops abound in the biennial festival. Details of all the events are here: Fiber Philadelphia 2012. Not wanting to miss out on the fun, I will be holding a solo exhibit at Bluestone Fine Art Gallery [...]

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Defining Success – A Massage a Week and Growth in my Art

January 19, 2012

A Successful Life My overall definition for success for my life is that I am getting a massage every week. While that might seem rather flip, that answer implies that 1) I am actively taking care of my self 2) I have the free time to spend on this indulgence 3) I have the money [...]

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Empowering Artists to Think Big About their Art their Marketing and their Lives

January 17, 2012

My Other Blog Did you know I have another blog? It’s called MakeBigArt. My intended audience is artists and the purpose of the blog is to empower artists to think big. The articles range from mindsets to marketing to motivation to management (like time management and career management – ie systems). I don’t update makebigart [...]

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Home and Dream – The End of Two Series

January 16, 2012

Home #26 ©2012 Lisa Call 36 x 46 inches Textile Painting (Fabric hand dyed by the artist, cotton batting, cotton thread) The Home Series Ends This past weekend I put the last stitches in Home #26, along with completing Home #60 at the end of 2011, this brings the Home series to a close. The [...]

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Art is more than Technique and Design

January 13, 2012

Studying the light through the trees in Working in a Series ©2011 Lena Ohlen Ink on Canvas Technique and Design As I’m developing the content for my new online workshop Abstraction I am continually asking myself what I want my students to take away from the class. Every email, lecture and assignment needs to reinforce [...]

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Investing in My Visual Art Career by Taking a Course on Writing

January 10, 2012

Words Words Words I started blogging February 22, 2005. I had wanted to start earlier but had been thinking “I need to be able to show images of my art”. My first post was made a few days after I purchased my first digital camera – a Nikon D70. I’ve learned a lot about my [...]

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