To read Blog Posts about Lisa's Workshops:
Judy Wise’s Blog • Lisa Pressman and Elise Wagner Workshop
Marji’s Art and Life • Alchemy of Process, ….. and the New World of Cold Wax
Terry Jarrard-Dimond Studio 24-7 • Oil Sticks, Oil Paint, Cold Wax, Lisa Pressman, Cullowhee Mountain Arts and Western Carolina University
Rochelle Weiner Fine Art Experimenting with Pigment Sticks
My Favorite Materials
3 in 1 “Woody” pens by Stabilo
Selection of Kitakata or similar“rice” papers
Art Appreciation Course
A Virtual Art Appreciation Text , John Seed
BOOK LIST : A Few Recommended Readings
Adler, Mortimer J. Art, the Arts and the Great Ideas. New York: Scribner, 1994.
Aimone, Steven. Expressive Drawing: A Practical Guide to Freeing the Artist Within. Lark
Alexander, Christopher. A Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Allen, Pat. Art is a Way of Knowing. Boston: Shambhala, 1995.
Ball, Philip. Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space. Boston: Beacon Press, 1964.
Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York: Viking Press, 1973.
Coelho, Paolo. The Alchemist. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1993.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Creativity, Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention. New York, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Performance. New York: Harper Perenniel, 1990.
Elkins, James. What Painting Is. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Finlay, Victoria. Color: A Natural History of the Palette. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003
Galenson, David. Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Creativity. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006.
Gamwell, Lynn. Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science and the Spiritual. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Giardella, Daena and Wren Ross. Changing Patterns: Discovering the Fabric of Your Creativity. Hay House, 2006.
Grey, Alex. The Mission of Art. Boston: Shambhala, 2003.
Harvey, Miles, The Island of Lost Maps: True Story of Cartographic Crime. Boston: G.K. Hall, 2001.
Jung, G. C. Man and His Symbols. Garden City NY: Doubleday, 1964
Maisel, Eric. Mastering Creative Anxiety: 24 Lessons for Writers, Painters, Musicians, and Actors from America's Foremost Creativity Coach. Novato, CA: New World Library, 2011.
A Life in the Arts. New York: Tarcher, 1994.
May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: Norton, 1975.
McNiff, Shaun. Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.
Nachmanovitch, Stephen. Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1991.
Nimmer, Dean. Creating Abstract Art: Ideas and Inspiration for Passionate Art-‐Making. North Light Books, 2014.
Orland, Ted. Art and Fear. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra, 1993.
Pressfield, Steven. The War of Art: breakthrough the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. New York: Time Warner Books, 2002.
Proust, Marcel. Remembrance of Times Past.
Richter, Gehard. The Daily Practice of Painting: Writings 1962-‐1993. Boston: MIT Press, 1995.
-Doubt and Belief in Painting. New York: MOMA, 2003.
Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to a Young Poet. Translation by Herter Norton. New York: Norton, 1954.
Sarton, May. Journal of a Solitude. New York: W.W. Norton, 1973. -‐-‐The House By the Sea. New York: W.W. Norton, 1977. -‐-‐At Seventy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984.
Shalin, Leonard. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time and Light. New York: Harper Perenniel, 2007.
Shapton, Leanne. Important Artifacts and Personal Property from the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2009.
Tharpe, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it For Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
Truitt, Anne. Daybook, the Journal of An Artist. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
Warner, Sally. Making Room for Making Art: A Thoughtful and Practical Guide to Bringing the Pleasure of Artistic Expression Back into Your Life. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1994.
Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders. New York : Vintage Books, 1995.
Seeing if Forgetting the Name of the Thing one Sees: The Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982.
True To Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
ART MOVIES:
VIDEOS:
What’s at Stake for Abstract Painting Today
UCLA Department of Art Lectures
Cornelia Parker- What do Artists do all day? (1 & no. 2)
Gabrielle Orozco at Aspen Art Museum
Jack Whitten – Five Decades of Painting
Agnes Martin- With my Back to the World
Judith Murray- Phases and Layers 1 and Phase 2
Gravity and Grace- Works by El Anatsui
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8h11-Jm4-s&sns=em
( Thank you to Judith Kruger for this list)