Menu
Commissions welcomed!
Contact me: Jo Myers-Walker
jomyerswalker@gmail.comThe Virtual Left Bank Studio
I’ve sold the little bank in Gilbert, and now I’m based in Iowa City where I continue to create and make things! We will tell you about my goings-on here on the blog.
-
-
Recent Posts
Archives
Categories
Author Archives: Jo Myers-Walker
Transported
Here are two more of our models posing for the figure drawing workshop at Summerset Winery. Below: I had fun taking them from the model stage in Indianola, to Linn Street in Iowa City where I pictured them having a … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Painting, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Transported
Popping up all over
Pop-ups are popping up all over! For the brochure at right, AMP participant Christopher drew the young person who pops out to give a thumbs-up to the program, “a youth-driven, statewide group that seeks to unleash the full potential for … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Painting, Paper, Sculpture, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Popping up all over
Vocation with a view
My apartment building is getting new windows. All one week workers put up scaffolding, then one morning these guys were working outside my living room window. Yeah, more models! They could see as I began to draw them so I … Continue reading
Posted in Painting, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Vocation with a view
Guantánamo clippers
This painting I did more than 40 years ago when my husband and I were stationed at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This is where I started painting in acrylics and teaching at their small art center on the base. I was … Continue reading
Posted in Commissions, Painting, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Guantánamo clippers
Big tent
My big tent has been good for a lot of festival displays, but not so good as a roommate — it takes up a lot of space! In future I won’t do art fairs as much, especially ones that are … Continue reading
Posted in Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Big tent
Thank you for your support
A friend introduced me to the Gold Violin catalog and I ordered these support stockings. Whenever I wear the patterned pair, people are fascinated with my “tattoos”! I like this painless method of getting ink.
Posted in Uncategorized
Comments Off on Thank you for your support
Drawing from life
In July’s figure drawing workshop at Summerset Winery, our models posed for about 20 minutes at a time while we sketched and painted. It’s not easy being a model — you have to be in good shape to hold a … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Painting, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Drawing from life
July 2015 Newsletter
Click the link below to view or download: Jo Myers-Walker July 2015 Newsletter (6-page PDF document, approx. 1.34 MB) In this edition: Summer on two wheels Revisiting old friends Value studies Journal making in Amana
Posted in Classes, Newsletters, Painting, Paper
Comments Off on July 2015 Newsletter
Red, white and blue
Moving from one studio space to another, I rediscovered this painting with colors befitting the holiday. “Winter Walk” is a big painting from when I had a big studio. Two small, faint figures walk by the evergreens, going over the … Continue reading
Posted in Painting, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Red, white and blue
Art in Amana
Last week I led an art journaling workshop in lovely Amana, Iowa, part of the Art Iowa Workshops offered every year by the Amana Arts Guild in cooperation with Grant Wood AEA. The class had 20 very busy students working … Continue reading
Posted in Classes, Paper, Studio Snapshots
Comments Off on Art in Amana
Jo Myers-Walker's Blog 
You must be logged in to post a comment.