Elizabeth Berg Blog

For those who seek to work with an Illustrator

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It is especially important for an illustrator to get to know the author… so this blog is for book authors and writers.

Instead of thinking your writing will provide all the information an artist could need to illustrate your book, consider offering something personal about you.

Your writing, of course, is the core of the project. However a very important second ...

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Look back to the future… it’s 2012!

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From the visionaries perspective we can return to 2012 and revel at the enormous changes, the positivity, and the invention. It’s a renaissance revisited!

Let us begin the new year with a solid view of authenticity, creative adventure, and inspiration from new heights.

Write to me and share your creative process… artist, writers, dancers, and singers. We will be seen in a new light this year. Encouragers, expressers, you speak ...

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New Art Exhibit and the Power of Diversity

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New Art Exhibit and the Power of Diversity

I opened a new art exhibit for December’s First Friday Art Walk… at The McCreith Team, Bella Casa Real Estate Group, a beautiful upscale real estate office, here in my little town of Newberg, Oregon.

The First Friday (Art Walk), is a popular monthly event for tourists, locals, as well as artists, musicians, and wine connoisseurs. Newberg is a gentle old fashioned setting for up and coming cultural interests. ...

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“Join Us at the Newberg Art Walk Tonight!”

Posted by: Elizabeth

My art will be featured tonight at The McCreith Team, Bella Casa Real Estate Group, from 5 pm – 9 pm, 700 E. 1st St., Suite 100, in beautiful downtown Newberg, Oregon. Come meet the The McCreith Team, see my artwork, and enjoy this wonderful event with all of us!

My art exhibit will be here the entire month of December.

Make everything you do ART,
Elizabeth Berg

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Introducing my New Portfolio Preview Page

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Imagine… I  stand on a stage before you, the huge curtains behind me are luminous. I  present the latest in virtual carousel rides:  My New Portfolio Preview Page, a dazzling changing frame of a wide variety of  my art work. The curtains of light seem to pool as a flat screen, and there before you, the delightful shifting of image ...

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Artists Retreat

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Artist RetreatThe artists retreat: A place created first in the mind, for it to be activated in any space, even in the most ideal creative spaces. It suggests an honesty with self, an agreement to withdraw from expectations in order to discover something new creatively. A retreat can mean putting value on quietly listening, becoming aware of what surfaces.

I am interested in working with ...

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Helping authors turn words into art

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Helping authors turn words into art

May I invite you to visit My Illustrations Overview page  for clients and authors. It’s a formula for begining an illustration project, and it’s filled with extensive information about how I translate your words into artwork.

For the new author, who has always wished to have a bit of art to enhance their poetry or short story, I have provided a full description of the language used in art and the way ...

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Freedom to express without fear of criticism

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Dancing TwinsWe are all artists in our own way.  I see that we are finding new ways to join our talents and passions for life and expression in the most creative ways today.

We ought to be emboldened by the unbelievable solutions that are being put to work to empower individuals. Artistically, as well as personally the more we allow ourselves ...

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Where expression is free to grow

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Where expression is free to grow

We are all so different, yet so much the same in ways that really matter. We want to express ourselves.

We need to discover our most authentic self. Perhaps a self that was never discarded, for all of the various reasons that this can happen. This usually happens at the hands of those who have lost their own childhood. As a home school mother  I wanted to provide an environment that ...

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Teaching the teacher

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Teaching the teacher

Hello artists and art lovers,

I’d like to tell you about something I learned from one of my youngest students. She is just seven. She taught me that when you don’t know you can’t do something, you might just be able to do it very well.

It was our first class together. From what her mother brought of her art I could see a definite confidence in her line. She had a ...

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