Category Archives: Painting

IWS Annual Meeting and exhibition

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Jo Myers-Walker

Update: I’m especially honored to have my painting included in the Traveling Show! The 2022 – 2023 schedule and preview are now posted on the Traveling Show page of the IWS website. Original post: I’m honored to have one of my paintings, … Continue reading →

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Remembrance Park dedication

Posted on August 10, 2022 by Jo Myers-Walker

The vision of Remembrance Park is becoming reality! The Remembrance Park – Johnson County website has information on two special events planned to mark the opening of this “Wildflower Park to Contemplate the Origins of Johnson County, Iowa” (described in … Continue reading →

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Illustrating in Amana

Posted on May 17, 2022 by Jo Myers-Walker

I always look forward to being part of the Art Iowa Workshops, and this year’s was a huge success. The workshops provide continuing education for educators in cooperation with Grant Wood AEA. My class this year had an emphasis on … Continue reading →

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Contemplating our past

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Jo Myers-Walker

In these watercolors I tried to envision life around early trading posts in what is now Johnson County, Iowa. The paintings were commissioned to help publicize plans for Remembrance Park, a small area with prairie grasses and wildflowers south of … Continue reading →

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A mouse needs a house

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Jo Myers-Walker

I was showing friends some of my illustration work and caught the attention of Mary Pepper, well-known in Ames as a quiltmaker and former elementary school teacher. She had written a story for a children’s book that needed illustrations, and … Continue reading →

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Words and pictures

Posted on January 21, 2022 by Jo Myers-Walker

Being an illustrator is very similar to being a writer — telling a story through images versus words. After painting the illustrations for Lucky’s Feet, I wanted to try telling a story of my own through both words and pictures. … Continue reading →

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Wrapping up summer at Shalom

Posted on September 17, 2021 by Jo Myers-Walker

To round out the Watercolor Playgroup series with our August session, we started by making prints of our feet using washable tempera paint in flat pans. Lots of giggles doing this, but so fun! While the footprints were drying we … Continue reading →

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Scenes at Shalom

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Jo Myers-Walker

For our July Watercolor Playgroup at Shalom Spirituality Center, I took photos of the grounds outside, then using a viewfinder found a part that spoke to me rather than painting the whole yard. We painted the closeup area and added … Continue reading →

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Watercolor playgroup

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Jo Myers-Walker

On June 26 I was at Shalom Spirituality Center in Dubuque, facilitating the first session of Watercolor Playgroup, a plein air retreat. Unfortunately for the “plein air” plans, it rained all afternoon, so we took our artmaking inside. We worked … Continue reading →

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Ready to get outdoors

Posted on April 26, 2021 by Jo Myers-Walker

In the Spring an artist’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of … plein air painting!* Online watercolor classes were a great way to escape the winter climate; as the weather grew nicer, my students and I were growing impatient to get … Continue reading →

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