Artist's Journal
The popular artist blog by abstract artist, Lisa Daniel.
LOVE LETTER TO MURANO
We met on a tour. What fabulous kismet! Of all the things I expected that day, meeting you was not one of them. It was destined to be. A splendid surprise. You are so art filled, generous, tall and beautiful. I could not get enough of you. Still can’t. You genuinely are a work of…
LOVELY BLUE
NEW WORK Working with this lovely blue again! Pouring it on a dark background (with glitter-woohoo!) makes it really stand out. This painting will become a featured video at my closing celebration at Hotel Murano. From blank canvas to finished painting. Come see it!
HERE WE ARE
2026 Here we are….fresh start, new year, new paintings.This painting has just been primed with gold gesso and I sprinkled glass beads onto the canvas while it was still wet. Creates amazing texture-can’t wait to pour on this one!
CHEERS!!
MORE SILVER This is a shot right after a pour. The paint is still very wet-wish it would stay just like that! Shiny! Loving how the cool and warm silver work together. Experimenting with Metallic Watercolor German Silver. It’s dry, like a powder and you mix it with water. In this pour, I just sprinkled…
ABSTRACT IS SOMETHING
My work is abstract. But what exactly does that mean? It means that I don’t paint anything that is representational. You can’t visually see anything in my paintings. Not a landscape, not an animal, not a figure, nothing. Nothing that you can point to and say, without a doubt, that is a…. But my paintings…
ACTION!
PURPLE Such a great color…what’s not to love about this fabulous color? I’ve used at least 5 different purples in this painting in a variety of mixes. So rich!
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