Category Archives: Studio Snapshots

First wash

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

The Thursday-afternoon students at The Left Bank Studio have been working with value and composition, learning how to take their sketches and better compose them for painting. Then when you paint, it’s fun! The planning has already been done, and … Continue reading →

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Holiday Market at Prairie Moon

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

This past Sunday I had a booth at the third annual Holiday Market at Prairie Moon Winery just outside of Ames. Lyndsay Nissen has done a beautiful job with this event three years in a row, creating a market for … Continue reading →

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Color coordinated

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

I’ve been rearranging The Left Bank Studio by color, and still bringing more things out of the vault. At right is a baby bassinet which my dad and I made. It holds a legal-size mattress for a newborn, and as … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving trip

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving! I made new figures (shown at right) to repair the All the World’s a Stage BookMarks sculpture, and took advantage of my trip to Iowa City to hand them over to the Parks … Continue reading →

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Hanging an exhibit at Gallery West

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

This past Monday I was in Des Moines to help hang an exhibit at an interesting location – Gallery West, in the Imaging Waiting Area of the VA Central Iowa Health Care System! The regularly-changing exhibits in Gallery West are … Continue reading →

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Tree of Hope transported

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

They said it could not be done… we said, yes it can! Here John M. demonstrates the advantage of a hatchback by transporting a large tree in a small car. As it turned out there wasn’t room to include it … Continue reading →

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Jo’s in a Row

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

Despite my absence, I was well represented at last Friday’s opening reception for my Art of Living retrospective show at the Octagon. “Thank you” to Marty and Angela, who stood in for me as art students demonstrating techniques we’ve used … Continue reading →

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Working toward a watercolor

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

In a value study, you focus on the relationship of lightness-to-darkness in the subject, and how this gives a sense of space and perspective and gives form to things. The Drawing & Composition class did value studies by drawing with … Continue reading →

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Farewell to van

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

After 300,000 miles of good and faithful service, the red van brought me home safely from a recent trip and could go no further. The bottom had rusted out. Repairs would have cost close to $1,000 and even then, the … Continue reading →

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Literary influence

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Jo Myers-Walker

(Update: the opening reception is past, but you can see my exhibit at the Octagon through December 22, 2012.) I have an exhibit going up in the Octagon’s third floor Main Gallery (427 Douglas Ave. in downtown Ames), and there … Continue reading →

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