5 Pt. Essay On Keeping It Real

SCALEY VASE acrylic on canvas 16 x 20 x 1.5 inches 2016 $600

JK Rowling's Harry Potter was rejected by 12 publishers with reasons being it was slow to start, the characters at the beginning were hard to identify with and that there's no money in children's books. 

James Cameron (who was living in his car at the time) fired his agent because he hated the idea for The Terminator. He later sold the script for just $1 with the stipulation that he direct (despite having only directed 1 other movie at the time) and Arnold Schwarzenegger referred to it as "some shit movie" at the time of making. 

George Lucas was rejected by 3 production companies (1 which later bought Lucasfilm) while looking for someone to finance Star Wars. Reasons included it being, "a little strange" and that it was not like "what was popular last year."

Johannes Vermeer left his family in debt before the 200 years it took for his work to be recognized. 

Nobody gave a damn about Vincent Van Gogh when he was painting. 

So what I'm trying to say is, the important thing is to keep on offering the world something beautiful nobody else can (and eventually the tide will turn) 

Painting Spotlight: TIGER MOM IN HER THRONE

TIGER MOM IN HER THRONE

acrylic on canvas

36 x 48 x 1.5 inches

2017

$1500

     This is my most recent magnum opus inspired by my own tiger mommy. I added a metronome for time keep for piano (or violin) study and it rests on the cube of sky that is my freedom. Adorned with jewels, she wears lipstick and sits atop her mighty throne, ready to dish out Chinese riddles and math problems at the first sign of protest. It's just me and my brother in the family but I had a cousin who was around a lot also. I'd most likely be the teeny cub in the bottom right there with only my wee tail peeking out. I was a mute kid (unless provoked) and if you went looking you'd probably find me hiding somewhere, folding an origami animal or drawing a daffodil. 

HELLO I AM HERE

Sorry it's been over a year since I last updated. I'm not very good at checking in but to be fair I've been so busy painting and with the odd sale online. I'll have to update in chunks and write in here more often. I'll just give you some of the highlights for now.

I updated my website, all my new paintings can be found here along with a complete catalog of my 200 something paintings: www.lisangart.com

I sold a large painting online called FURRY FERRARI from this website!: https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Furry-Ferrari/672002/2109052/view

Every four months someone buys a print of my FLAMINGOS IN THE BATHROOM painting that sold at the Burlington Art Auction: https://society6.com/product/flamingos-in-the-bathroom_print#s6-6033372p4a1v45

I started a youtube channel, right now I'm working on a family portrait of my family in Chinese Zodiac Animals: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYHOudaUh-fOLXrqNvGM0aw

Here is my painting POLAR CHAIR featured in Spirituality & Health Magazine Nov/Dec Issue pg. 30. 75K copies:

I also got married in September, here is a painting I did around that time called FUR FIELD:

UPCOMING ART SHOWS

Burlington Art Auction 2016
The Flamingos in the Bathroom Painting will be up for live auction June 3, 2016 More details at:
www.artgalleryofburlington.com/art-auction-2016/

Riverdale Art Walk 2016
June 4 & 5, 2016 11am to 6pm 
Jimmie Simpson Park 
870 Queen St. E. Toronto, ON CANADA 
BOOTH 90
www.artistsnetwork.ca/see-art-buy-art/riverdale-art-walk

Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit 2016
July 8: 10am to 8pm
July 9: 10am to 8pm
July 10: 10am to 6pm
Toronto Nathan Phillips Square
100 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON CANADA
BOOTH 104
www.torontooutdoorart.org

My Advice to a Young Artist Starting Late

Tastes change and sometimes you won't know how you feel until you've gone down that path. Don't be bothered. When I was young all I wanted was to be an artist and after doing that for 10 years for some reason I wanted to be a nurse. So by the time I got into nursing school I got all envious of the younger students. You can only be you and your unique experience, history included (directly art related or not) is what makes your art special and unique to you, so my advice is to never think of your lack of art training a drawback as an artist. Art is only part technique, this can be taught and learned. GREAT ART requires depth, relatability, only gained by life experience. In your past that you didn't spend learning how to draw you probably spent it living, experiencing other things, battling different struggles, I would think of that as an advantage, draw on that, it is unique to you and other artists don't have that which makes your voice authentic and interesting. Lots of GREAT artists didn't make anything good until much later in life and it's partly because it took them that much time to not only master good technique but to more importantly experience the rich life that gave their art that special depth. J.K. Rowling was a school teacher before she wrote Harry Potter, Christopher Walken was a janitor for 11 years.

HOARDING SQUIRREL

My new painting.
Description at:

http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Painting-Hoarding-Squirrel/672002/2852679/view

Christina's World

Close up of the one side of a new painting featuring a giant squirrel. I often do miniature versions of famous paintings, there's a Lawren Harris in this one too!