Elizabeth Berg Blog

We 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have noticed that when the seasons change something happens inside of our hearts and minds creatively. As summer turns to fall, not only do I see changes around me, but I seem to smell the new season coming.

The power of these changes brings a profusion of color images into my imagination. I lay color next to color in my mind building scenes characters and unknown places of wild potential for stories ...

Hello fellow artists,

I’d like to share my technique for creating a hand-colored drawing of a character for a client. I like to rough out the image with several first sketches. I prefer a soft lead pencil because of the fluidity in the line. I begin with my envisioned idea, then use basic shapes to rough out the proportions on the paper.

Many artists get themselves discouraged by starting in on the detail ...

I’m so thrilled to be able to be in touch with fellow artists, my clients, and new friends.

I have some far memory of a Salon where artists and artisans met. The environment is timeless, well glassed and wooden, a high interior, plenty of room for thoughts to float about in the room. Lots of well worn tables with meaningful deep scratches from an exphasis on paper. One thing we ...