My display for the Spring Artwalk!

The Moon Is My Muse. Charcoal and Graphite Pencil. © Liz Darling  2013.

Instructional demo for my drawing class...
I've been working with the moon a lot, and wanted to weave it into this image. The placement alludes to halos in religious iconography, a subject that has inspired a lot of my earlier work.

Waning. India ink and conté on handmade paper. © Liz Darling  2013.

Ocean Sap. Watercolor and Colored Pencil on Arches paper mounted on Bristol. © Liz Darling  2013.

Arise. Watercolor on Arches paper. © Liz Darling  2013.

Amanita Muscaria. Colored Pencil. © Liz Darling  2013.

Psilocybe Semilanceata. Colored Pencil. © Liz Darling  2013.

Two of my watercolor vulva studies were featured in Juxtapoz!

 

"These watercolor studies by Liz Darling explore both the female anatomy and the possibilities of watercolor as a medium. With simple, expressionistic brushstrokes Darling is able to successfully capture the most intimate parts of a woman. Darling is an artist and art educator from Kansas. She earned her degree in Art at Pittsburg State University."


Vulva Study I is on Tumblr, too!

Art teachers!

My work

I have 3 pieces in the Pittsburg State University Art Department's show, Inspiring Voices - an exhibition of works by high school art teachers in the four state area. The exhibition runs from October 24th - December 6th in the Harry Krug Gallery. Here is an article about the exhibit.

Mountain. Watercolor. © Liz Darling  2012.

Ascension. Oil on Canvas. © Liz Darling  2012. 

I haven't decided if I'm finished with this or not. Probably not. There are several things I'm thinking of doing to the eye-like forms, yet right now, I enjoy their simplicity.

Bone Creek. © Liz Darling 2012. 

Bison. © Liz Darling 2012. 

Testing The Water. © Liz Darling 2012. 

Some photos of Bone Creek Lake, Lake Crawford, and Prairie State Park.

Self-Portrait As A Happy Meal Toy. McDonalds Toy, Air-dry clay, acrylic, toothpick. © Liz Darling  2012.

Speaking of experimentation, this is probably the strangest thing I've done in awhile. My daughter got a truly freakish Happy Meal toy from McDonalds. It was a cartoon-like bust of something resembling a Bratz doll. Bleached blonde, highly "made up", alien-sized eyeballs... very hypersexualized. I cringed to think of her playing with this toy (not that she seemed to pay it much notice anyway), so I took it into the studio and attempted to start painting over the overload of makeup and make the eyes a proportional "human" size. I got a little carried away, sculpting the face with air-dry clay, and creating a tiny pair of glasses out of a toothpick. The result of this madness is a tiny version of myself.

Sagittal. Watercolor and Gold Leaf on Paper. © Liz Darling  2012.

Cross section views of the human body are utterly beautiful. Shortly after I finished making this painting, I sold it to a friend whose husband is ophthalmology school. Hopefully it will make a nice addition to his future office.