Need a little inspiration, or a creative break in your day? Join other supporters of my artwork and get a biweekly email with examples of my studio work (paintings), writing, or blog posts. I love to look at other artists' work, and maybe you do too! My hope is that my newsletter will bring to your inbox that delicious feeling of looking at something beautiful, and perhaps a nod of resonance.
GUILTY! A One Act Play about Writer's Block
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Lise Lemeland
Need a little inspiration, or a creative break in your day? Join other supporters of my artwork and get a biweekly email with examples of my studio work (paintings), writing, or blog posts. I love to look at other artists' work, and maybe you do too! My hope is that my newsletter will bring to your inbox that delicious feeling of looking at something beautiful, and perhaps a nod of resonance.
Issue #25 Painting & Prose: My Creative Process Seeing Anew Is it really 2026?! I’ve taken a long hiatus away from posting, longer than I realized. Truthfully, I’ve been very busy, dividing my time between my old faithful love—painting; and a new love— writing. I have two long-term projects going on, one in each medium. In painting, I’ve been allowing myself the time and space to create a body of work before trying to show or sell it. These are my landscape paintings, a new series that will...
Issue #24 Palette, Poetry & Prose: My Creative Process Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone Dude-Ranch Commission, 30" x 22", gouache on paper, 2025. There is something that happens to a painter who’s been out of art school for a long time. You get to a place in your work that is like throwing on a comfy pair of jeans every morning. It’s not that you’re not working hard, or taking yourself seriously, because you are, and you do. But you don’t need to put on the painter’s uniform to know you’re...
Issue #22 Palette, Poetry & Prose: My Creative Process Getting to Know My Trauma: A Humble Treatise on PTSD "Healing Brain Fog", gouache on paper, 16" x 12", 2022. Sometimes, I suffer from creative blocks (painter’s and writer’s), and this has been one of those times— hence the tardiness of my newsletter. When I was a painting professor, I assured my blocked and distressed students that this was perfectly normal. I gave them suggestions: switch mediums! Paint with your non-dominant hand!...