LOUISA MCELWAIN

Winter 2009

December 29, 2009 – 1:33 pm | No Comment

The Winter issue is out now – featuring L.A. artist Joe Goode, the surprising side of Beth Van Hoesen, and singer-songwriter Bob Schneider. It also includes a special five year anniversary section with artists Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Nathan Oliveira. We are celebrating a half decade of artistic adventures. Pick up your copy and enjoy!

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mixed media

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music & cinema

Cinema and music from the artists themselves. Thought-provoking interviews and profiles of some of the biggest names in music and Hollywood to emerging artists down the street.

paint

From oil on canvas, watercolors and beyond. Traditional, still life, expressionist and abstract are all featured with insight into the artists, their stories and inspirations.

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Color or black and white, photographers and their medium profiled each month in Artworks Magazine and here online. From classics to abstract, legends to emerging talent.

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Submitted by erin on December 23, 2008 – 11:50 amNo Comment

Louisa McElwain adores summer storms, especially the way the light changes and the clouds dance across the horizon ahead of the rain. Living in the country, 20 miles outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Louisa is in tune with the changing weather. If it looks like “one of those days,” she is quick to pack up her pick-up truck and head out to find that “power spot” for what she likes to call “a dialogue with nature.” Once there, she moves quickly, stapling a large canvas to a makeshift armature mounted on the back of the pick-up. The tailgate provides a table for all of her paint – large globs squeezed in strict order from dozens of tubes. With palette knives and masonry trowels of all sizes, including some attached with duck tape to long sticks, she goes to work.