SEE “GHOST” PROGRESS from start to finish.

November 9, 2023January 23, 2018 by Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis

See the painting Ghost, from the Medical Collar Series, progress from photos to finished painting.The video below uses stop motion or stills to show my process from composing with reference photos through drawing and layering paint. Today I do most of the photo manipulation digitally. And I have a much better camera. Since the painting … Read more

Snow Dogs Greetings

March 18, 2018December 24, 2017 by Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis

Mookie and Dino, the Snow Dogs, would like to send you holiday cheer and best wishes for the New Year. Oops, the animated GIF should be here. Due to technical difficulties I present a still instead. See more art featuring Mookie and Dino and read some of their stories.

Design for Nedtones Vol. 2 CD album cover

March 18, 2018December 16, 2017 by Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis

images and text design on the music CD the Nedtones Vol. 2

The design for Nedtones Volume 2 is done. I’ll be posting paintings but in the mean time here is my first attempt at a GIF, and my second attempt at designing a CD album cover for original music by Ned Tennis. Read about designing Nedtones Vol. 1 here. I used Paint dot net to design … Read more

Sidetracked designing a CD cover (or not every artist is a graphic designer)

December 6, 2018May 3, 2017 by Elizabeth Lisa Petrulis

updated, official CD cover for Nedtones Vol. 1

Intro

In high school, in the days of audio vinyl, a lot of arty kids fantasized about creating cover art for rock and roll albums.

I wasn’t one of them.