Elizabeth Berg Blog

The days of creating are sacred to me..
Being true to the person I have come to be is essential in my self expression.
Apprehending an instant in time with a camera is a golden moment. It takes a kind of hyper vigilance.
Being sensitive to life is precious.
To me intention has an energetic power when it is taken into action, a living energy that ignites the senses.
The power behind a work is the ...

Some thoughts about time…time is a plyable element,
essential obviously. Here is a perspective that I hope works for you, as it has worked for me.
See time as your companion. Imagine that it has form and that you like it and its working with you not against you.
Speak to it: Thank you time, if you have some other new ways for me to see you, let them be known ...

I enjoy the playful imagining of new places. The dream place we hope for before we arrive.

Not the usual, we crave the unusual, it pushes us, makes us new, we grow, its uncomfortable, then its familiar and we start again.
Seems.. Authentic keeps showing up as the most appealing to be found. Even the awkward, or the not beautiful.. all of that has a cottage cheese with paprika on it over ...

Artists and art lovers, writers, dancers, all of you creative thinkers..Hello sensitives.. have you ever felt discouraged that you seemed to feel much more then others. Seemed to be too sensitive, too vulnerable.
It is a gift to feel deeply. It is a gift to think deeply and care deeply. Perhaps taking care not to keep yourself too much in the presence of those who take pride in being thick hearted and thick headed is the order of the ...

That special place we go to, enter into when we make our art..its a timeless place. Where all manner of possibilities reside.

Fully emersed we no longer hear that critical voice.

Half way into it we are still subject to the doubtings..
That perfectly worded phrase that gets under our skin, from some dislocated, misrepresenting, badly assigned excuse for a “guardian”, who’s inner whisperings place hesitation inside of our free line, our uninhibited strokes, that daring dash of ...

Illustrating is pure joy!
The diversity and intention of the different writers is so varied that it always allows an adventure for me. I enrole in the characters feelings. Its very much, to me, like acting. I have the delightful experience of “living out” the story as if it were a movie. I take the camera of my imagination, seeing the scenes from ground level or treetops.
There is so much to discuss with the author before ...

Dear Artists, with all we need to do to keep up with all we need to do, you may have become aware of a sense that time is being experienced slightly differenly then we might have experienced it in the past. If you are bound to work other than your art work to make ends meet, be kind to yourself. Instead of trying to make up for lost time with your art..making the product or the end ...

Here is an idea to help you see things differently..artistically speaking.
This iis one of my favorites..

Select a photograph, black and white. notice the darkest areas and the lightest areas first. See if you can distingush the shape of the darkest area, as if they were continents. Take a photo copy of the image, alter it to just the two, darkest and lightest. Take out all of the grey. Now draw the largest of the darkest shapes on a ...

Looking through archeology books, my story telling thoughts imagine the people who made the beautifully painted attica pottery in ancient Greece. Isnt it amazing how very long a piece of fired clay can last..telling of its life in so many ways after being excavated.
Even some silks, wools and woven flax have survived for many hindreds of years.

Have you ever made a sand sculpture? or watched perhaps on television, the creation of a sand mandala painting ...