Lizzy D's Art Blog|My art, projects, and life in general

It is now summer in Arizona and I’m already looking forward to winter. It’s just freakin’ hot down here! And let’s add a story to this hot weather complaint. It was the first week of June when I was taking a right turn at a light just a minute away from my home. All of a sudden WHAM; my car got hit! Lucky for me they had insurance, but unfortunately for us it was the car with AC. It’s been in for repairs it’s taking a while for that to get done. We have been driving our second car that is an old 1990 Toyota Corolla that has no AC. So we have the windows rolled down and hope that all the stop lights stay green- yeah it’s that hot.

What all have I been up too lately? I must apologize for the absence. Since my son got out of school for the summer it’s been hard focusing on my work, but once school starts again everything should settle back into place again. But it doesn’t mean I haven’t done any art, I actually been working on small projects.

These were done for a contest on deviantArt. I was supposed to come up with my own character designs for Fantasy Earth Zero. They were fun to do and were a small enough project I could take them with me when my son was at swim team practice.

Other artsy things I’ve been doing are teaching art classes from home. I’ve been teaching a couple of girl’s watercolors and a younger one arts and crafts. It’s been fun and educational for both me and the girls. I actually find it hard to teach others my techniques because I am so use to doing them myself and they just come naturally with no need for an explanation. Trying to tell someone else how to do it really makes me have to think about each step I go through when I paint!

Another project is something my husband and I are working on. We are making steampunk costumes! He is farther along on his than I am…it’s actually been pretty hard trying to come up with just the right outfit. But once things start picking in the costume making I’ll post the progress if I can.

With the help of my wonderful husband my website is finally complete! I am so lucky to have such a supportive husband he sacrificed a lot of time into the website and to help me get started with this blog and other things to help get my art out there! So please take a look around and tell me what you think.

If you are in the Tempe, AZ area, today is you last chance to buy a raffle ticket to win a drawing or painting at Jerry’s Artarama. One raffle ticket is $5 and 5 tickets are $20.

I am now starting to get art ready for the Leprecon coming up in May. I have some finished art but there some I need to start on or redo. I’m a little stressed about it but at least I have a plan, normally I don’t have one of those. Here’s a sketch of one of my “plans”:

I’m trying to update my blog regularly, but sometimes I get sucked into my art and forget about everything else. I’m sure you artists know exactly what I’m talking about . I have a goal to post updates about three times a week right now, but it is kind of sporadic on when that happens as you likely have noticed. I’ve incorporated several ways for my readers to stay current with my posts – updates on Facebook and Twitter, subscribing to the RSS feed through one of the several buttons and links around the site, the ability to get email updates sent, and now it will also show on my art gallery’s news page (or at least it will when it’s finished).

Subscribing to my feed or following my activity on other social media sites will inform you when I have updated my blog with a new post so that you can immediately see what I’m up to and be the first to see the projects that I’m working on. Subscribing via email or RSS is very simple and free, and lets you get instant updates of the newest posts. Now I am not saying that I don’t want you visiting my blog any more – I definitely want you all here to participate in discussions and what-not – but rather I’m giving you options to know when I’ve posted something new.

To my current subscribers, my apologies for this solicitation to something you already have, but I am aware that many of my readers are not aware of these options and I want to make sure that everyone has access to, and understands these options. And for anyone who is not sure what I’m talking about with all this internet lingo (Chris had to explain it to me too), just look for an image like this:

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You’ll find similar buttons on the top right of each page of my blog, ones a bit lower down with the social network buttons, including one for email subscriptions, and soon there will be one at the bottom of each post. I’ve also added the option to subscribe to the comments as well so that you never miss out on the conversations that happen outside the posts.

A big thank you to my readers and fans, your support and friendship help me keep going and provide me with the motivation I need to keep plugging away with my projects.

-Lizzy D.

Elizabeth D. Hill was born in 1980 and grew up on a dairy farm outside of the small town of Paul, Idaho. She was the sixth of nine kids and spent a lot of time helping on the farm and exploring the desert behind it. She has always loved art and so took classes and learned from her own experience through the years. Liz attended Brigham Young University – Idaho, where she graduated with an Associates of Arts degree in Fine Art. She has been married now for 8 yrs to her husband Chris, and they have a 6 yr old son named Marius.

Liz’s art takes form in many different forms including drawings, paintings, sculptures, and digital art. Her artistic inspirations come from all over – the natural world around her, books, and dance – but is most inspired by music. Her music collection ranges from heavy metal, to jazz, to classical music. Elizabeth developed her art by drawing a lot of fictional characters, focusing on pose and costume. She has painted pictures for friends and family mostly and had just recently started selling her art professionally. Liz’s primary mediums are Pencil and Marker, Watercolors, and Acrylics, though she has used other mediums at times as well.

Elizabeth’s mind is always busy with creativity. You’ll always find her carrying a sketch book where ever she is, and sketching the world around her. She finds the human body to be an art in itself and try’s to capture the beauty, movement, and emotion in it.