Category Archives: Studio Snapshots

Guantánamo clippers

Posted on August 15, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

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 →

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Big tent

Posted on August 8, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

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 →

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Drawing from life

Posted on August 5, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

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 →

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Red, white and blue

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

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 →

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Art in Amana

Posted on June 24, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

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 →

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Cool and warm

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

To hold a painting together visually, we choose 2 cool colors (blues, purples, greens) and 1 warm color (yellows, reds, oranges) for cool color dominance, or 2 warm and 1 cool for warm color dominance. Echoing the colors pulls the … Continue reading →

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Working together against trafficking

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

Here I’m shown at YSS’s Risky Business Conference in Ames, facilitating a group of young people making banners to create awareness about human trafficking. We drew and painted colorful symbols on banners to be carried in demonstrations and parades or … Continue reading →

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Watercolor sketches at Summerset

Posted on April 15, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

We had a wonderful turnout for last week’s workshop at Summerset Winery, 17 students, strong painters. “Watercolor Sketches and Beyond” emphasized drawing and composing in our journals to start with. Each student received a journal with worksheets that they could … Continue reading →

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Visions of the beach

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

Right: Besides the card-catalog easel for large paintings, other “easels” get into the act for rotating, editing, and refining (sofa easel, print rack easel…). Below: The color of the Florida ocean, dipping my toes in pretend water. It was a … Continue reading →

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Card-catalog easel

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Jo Myers-Walker

For large watercolors, like 32″ x 40″, I needed to create an easel large enough to accommodate large papers and still movable so as to be able to rotate and lay flat. Voilà — the ISU library card catalog I … Continue reading →

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