Liz

@lizms

she/her 🏳️‍🌈 | MA📍| Learning to paint. Leaning into art and whatever bright spots I can find (following creative prompts, posting my own work and reposting others), feel free to follow along

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Liz@lizms· 20d

7/22: The deer that I’m pretty sure I drew last year (same markings on her face) has returned to our backyard this summer and yesterday brought this little guy with her. #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #photography #eastcoastkin #eck #artyear

photo of a young fawn standing still among greenery, looking towards the viewer

Liz@lizms· 24d

For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow prompt ( #growing), a recent hiking view with my youngest off in the distance #scape #artyear #ColorADay #GreenSat

forrest view of mossy rocks and leaves in the foreground with a wall of green foliage and sunlight streaming through casting shadows and illuminating a figure walking in the distance

Liz@lizms· 24d

7/18: Last night’s view (skipping rocks) #AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBehind #scape #ECK #artyear

sunset landscape beach view with shallow water reflecting orange and pink light and a person standing with their arm extended as they toss a rock

Liz@lizms· 26d

7/16: people ( #sketchbook update, trying to get back to art before break slips away, this one felt more emotional and is something I’ve been processing a lot this summer) #humansofbluesky #artyear #drawing #dailyart #art #portrait

sketchbook open to a pencil drawing of two people in graduation caps and gowns holding diplomas and smiling with their arms around a woman [their mother] in the center of the picture

Liz@lizms· 26d

#ColorADay #YellowThu #abstract #photographersunited #artyear

photo of buttercups in front of a blurry sunlit background of grass and trees

Liz@lizms· Jul 12

7/12: #Stunday - scenes from the ICA Boston’s Derrick Adams: View Master exhibit (with some tall ships along the way) #SelfPortraitSunday #EastCoastKin #Boston #art

Liz@lizms· Jul 5

Emerald Pool swimming hole (White Mountains, NH) #SelfPortraitSunday #EastCoastKin #Stunday #photographersunited #travel

vertical view of a swimming hole in the woods with one figure in the water and another jumping off high rocks

landscape view of small waterfalls with a smiling woman in the water in the foreground

Liz@lizms· Jul 5

7/5: #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #humansofbluesky #photographersunited

nighttime view with a red firework exploding in the sky and silhouettes of a onlookers in the foreground

Liz@lizms· Jul 5

7/4: #BlueSkyArtShow #wide #EastCoastKin #scape #Stunday #ArtYear #humansofbluesky #photographersunited #photographersofbluesky #mobilephotography #landscape

Landscape view from the top of Mt Washington with mountains and clouds in the distance and a figure in red and black standing on top of a ledge in the foreground

Liz@lizms· Jun 29

6/29: #MinimalMonday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #blackandwhite #minimal

Black and white nighttime view of a carnival lit up along the horizon with a few people walking across in the distance

Liz@lizms· Jun 21

🎯 Yes, everywhere we went!

Liz@lizms· Jun 20

6/20: a view from Boston last night for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow prompt, #curve

Nighttime view centered on an archway with the words “Tadpole Playground” across it and a frog statue sitting with an orange traffic cone [from Scottish soccer fans] on its head

Liz@lizms· May 25

5/25: #MinimalMonday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #blackandwhite #minimal

black & white photo of a street light surrounded by flying birds

Liz@lizms· May 23

Attended an incredible concert last night to support the PAIR Project and their efforts to provide free legal services to asylum seekers and detained immigrants (links to support in alt text) @pairproject-ma.bsky.social #eastcoastkin #artyear #communityoutreach #brightspots

photo of a moonlit building with stained glass windows lit from within

interior photo of a vaulted ceiling lit with pink and blue and stings of smaller yellow lights hanging across

two women standing in a room lit with pink and blue

Links:
for more info and donations to PAIR:
https://www.pairproject.org

for item donations:
https://www.myregistry.com/giftlist/compassioninaction

Text:

PAIR
The Henry Purcell Society is proud to be partnering with the PAIR Project for this community outreach concert, supporting their mission providing free legal services to asylum seekers and detained immigrants

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Continuo: Andrew Sheranian, Sarah Freiberg
Piano: J. Kathleen Castellanos
Upper Strings: Susanna Ogata, Jane Starkman, Joy Grimes;
Recorders: Daniel Meyers and Roy Sansom
Vocalists: Charles Blandy, Cody Bowers, Jessica Cooper, "Aviva Dias (Emerging Young Artist), Craig Juricka, David Thomas Mather, Emily Siar, Lyracle (Ashley Mulcahey and James Perretta)

Liz@lizms· May 18

View from today, a little early for #BlueSkyMonday

Photo of a lobster roll and fries set on a table with the ocean and blue sky in the background

Liz@lizms· May 17

May 16: #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Greenhouse view with pink, red, purple flowers in the foreground and lines of blooming planters hanging down

Liz@lizms· May 10

5/10: recent views #ArtYear #EastCoastKin #SelfPortraitSunday

photo of smiling people walking in the rain in Times Square

close-up of a playbill (The Outsiders) in front of a stage and lights

cityscape featuring a mural of the Statue of Liberty

close-up of pink tulips in green grass near a white picket fence

Liz@lizms· May 3

5/3: Getting back to #painting after a busy few weeks, here’s one for this week’s #ImageAndVerse prompt: another #acrylic #sketchbook entry (rambuten for this week’s fruit) to pair with Aimee Nezhukumatathil's poem “from The Rambutan Notebooks” (excerpt in alt text) #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #DailyArt

I won’t ask the rambutan about its messy hair.
I know you are tired of trying to flatten
your hair into something it is not. When
it is meant to flap and fly in the wind-salted air.
Unplug the iron. Let the questions of what is beauty
and what is not-beauty fruit down your back.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, excerpt from “From The Rambutan Notebooks" 2018

[photo of an acrylic sketch of a rambutan cut open with its fruit set in its spiky skin like an egg in a nest]

Liz@lizms· May 2

May 2: today’s energy #Caturday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Closeup black & white photo centered on a sleeping cat with his paw outstretched in the foreground

Liz@lizms· May 2

For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow prompt ( #shadowplay): a nostalgic throwback to one of my favorite spots to bring the kids when they were younger (my older two are officially college-bound now, and the little guy in the middle is about to start high school) #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Photo of three young children riding bikes on a tree-lined path in the evening casting long shadows on the pavement behind them

Liz@lizms· May 2

May 1: #scape #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Boston city scape featuring yellow tulips in the foreground

Liz@lizms· Apr 25

4/25: For today’s #BlueSkyArtShow ( #odd) view of “Modern Madonna and Child” by artist Shawn Carlin from Arts Worcester & Fitchburg Art Museum’s call and response show #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Photo of a small sculpture featuring a traditional Madonna and child pair on a small pedestal with modern additions (a cell phone in the child’s hand, a coffee mug in the mother’s, Amazon packages and a laundry basket with detergent at her feet)

Liz@lizms· Apr 25

4/24: #scape #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Close up of tree branches with white blossoms and a tall building in the background

Liz@lizms· Apr 11

These guys have been killing me with their cuteness lately #Caturday #EastCoastKin

photo of a white cat on his back cuddling with a black & white kitten on a blue blanket

Liz@lizms· Apr 11

4/11: #new ( #BlueSkyArtShow) #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

Liz@lizms· Apr 5

4/4: green #ColorADay ( #GreenSat) #ArtYear #EastCoastKin

Photo of decorated Easter eggs with one green one up close in the center painted with a bunny in a hot air balloon with a flower & flags

Liz@lizms· Apr 5

Spent some time playing around with #collage making today, really enjoyed taking an x-acto knife to some old magazines and putting this together (entry for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #openings) #EastCoastKin #artyear #dailyart

Photo of a collage made from clippings of renaissance artwork, photos from space, and decor (windows & a hanging flower lamp) with a golden leaf glued above the lamp in the corner and a cut lattice border across the top of the page

Liz@lizms· Apr 3

4/3: #FoodOnFriday 🍰 #EastCoastKin #ArtYear

photo of a white bakery box with “Mike’s Pastry” in blue lettering across the top in front of a display case filled with Easter lamb cakes

Liz@lizms· Mar 29

#Cityscape for this week’s #BlueSkyArtShow ( #background) along with a bit of Medusa by Carol Ann Duffy for #ImageAndVerse (full poem in alt text) A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy grew in my mind, which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes, as though my thoughts hissed and spat on my scalp.

Medusa
Carol Ann Duffy, 1999

A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy
grew in my mind,
which turned the hairs on my head to filthy
snakes,
as though my thoughts
hissed and spat on my scalp.

My bride’s breath soured, stank
in the grey bags of my lungs.
I’m foul mouthed now, foul tongued,
yellow fanged.
There are bullet tears in my eyes.
Are you terrified?

Be terrified.
It’s you I love,
perfect man, Greek God, my own;
but I know you’ll go, betray me, stray
from home.
So better by far for me
if you were stone.

I glanced at a buzzing bee,
a dull grey pebble fell
to the ground.
I glanced at a singing bird,
a handful of dusty gravel
spattered down.

I looked at a ginger cat,
a housebrick
shattered a bowl of milk.
I looked at a snuffling pig,
a boulder rolled
in a heap of shit.

I stared in the mirror.
Love gone bad
showed me a Gorgon.
I stared at a dragon.
Fire spewed
from the mouth of a mountain.

And here you come
with a shield for a heart
and a sword for a tongue
and your girls, your girls.
Wasn’t I beautiful?
Wasn’t I fragrant and young?

Look at me now.

[pictured: brick buildings at dusk with one in the center featuring a mural of Medusa’s face]

Liz@lizms· Mar 29

3/28: view from today #NoKings #Boston (sound on for Dropkick Murphys wrap up) #MA