Welcome …. to, What’s on the Easel , where we talk about everything art , that’s happening at the , Lisa Lovely LPA Art Museum, I am your host , Art , and we try real hard to publish this blog , first thing in the morning every , Tuesday ! See you then !
Art : Welcome everyone and today we are putting together a brief blog from .. beautiful, Idyllwild , California , and with me today is Lisa Lovely LPA and as usual … I ask what’s on the easel ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Hello Art , good morning.
Art : Yes , good morning. It’s a beautiful morning too.
Lisa Lovely LPA : yes .. our last breakfast by the stream .. it is so peaceful .. great coffee , oats and blueberries and oat milk lol finally getting back to healthy ! lol
Art : ( sipping coffee ) …. and something special on the easel ??
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yes, our poster announcing, Art Fest 2024 ! All done this week while at Idyllwild.
Art : … and for those not familiar with Idyllwild ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Well it’s a beautiful mountain village , lots of artist around , some witches too lol.
Art : All Kinds of Artist ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Lots of musicians , painters , jewelry makers , lots and lots of art.
Art : So, is this the first for an actual , Art Fest , poster ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : The first we spent some time on , last year we whipped something up fast the night before on 9x12 water color paper , years before that just some ink on paper and earlier on we never had an official announcement in the form of a poster.
Art : … this one is more elaborate ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yeah, it’s made on water color paper mounted to a wood base , should be around a long time , it marks the 10 th annual Art Fest. There is a lot of Idyllwild in its design , birds, trees and a cabin in there somewhere lol
Art : This trip is having an influence already on Art Fest ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Indeed. I think it will continue to show up in part at the festival.
Art : Coincidence ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : I not think so. It’s magical place that came to be just as we brought along some art supplies to make our Art Fest poster .. the timing was perfect.
Art : What is Art Fest , for those that have been heard of it before ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Art Fest is defined by three consecutive, Mondays , just over three weeks where we pretty much do nothing but make art. It coincides with our long summer vacation.
It’s like being a full time artist on overtime for almost a month.
Art : .. a lot of art gets done.
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yes , what we make in art in just less then a month is about what we normally make in about six months lol or maybe three months lol
Art : But it’s not about production ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : No, not really , it is in some ways but it’s more akin to a stream of consciousness kind of thing , when the artist are pressed to make lots of art , doors open up into the inside and some very authentic art appears.
It all happens over about 25 days … after it’s done we are creatively exhausted.
It’s a nice change from having to stop working on a project to go back and do the day job thing , as wonderful as the day job is , it interrupts doing art.
Art : The day job is essential ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Sure , for obvious reasons , it provides funding for the art lol but more then that , it’s an essential part of life.
Art : How so ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : It gets us out of the museum , gets us beyond the temple walls so to speak.
Art : Now that sounds strange … ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Eat your Oatmeal luv lol isn’t the sound of the stream beautiful ?
Art : yes … ( looking at Lisa strangely ) a very nice place.
Lisa Lovely LPA : From art comes life , from life comes art. If we sit at the easel all day the art will die , just as a life without art is very misguided and not fully available.
Art : we must go out and live to make art ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : We must be a part of the world , yes. Art Fest is very much an introverted deep journey inside , when it’s over we are kinda stunned , like in a deep fog , there is that desire not to come back …
Art : ( a look of scary confusion )
Lisa Lovely LPA : LOL to the average person we look just fine at the end of the festival, but we are deep inside and not in a good way to communicate with the outside “conscious” world.
Art : … and this is why we have the showing of the art ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yes lol , when the event is closed we sit around and just enjoy the art , have some wine or champagne or something , we are spectators at the showing of the art not creators , and we begin to come back to this world.
Art Fest is creatively exhausting but in the end we are very energized. We go back to the world with some regrets but we know it’s necessary and so it works itself out.
Art : …. Jennifer Savino ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : A fellow witch and wonderful artist has a small boutique in Idyllwild across from the villages only theater.
Art : a special encounter ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : It was nice to meet her , it’s not everyday you meet someone that’s been there , burnt at the stake , like I have been.
Art : ( mouth open )
Lisa Lovely LPA : ( witchy laugh )
Art : We expect an official announcement soon ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : I think when this blog hits the press we will have the official announcement for this years , Art Fest ( smile )
Art : that’s unofficial ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : Yeah lol let’s say that … it suppose to be a big secret lol shh
Art : We don’t know what art will be done ?
Lisa Lovely LPA : That we really don’t know , there are more ideas that could ever be done in one festival , but there is lots of canvas making happening at the museum and lots of ideas flowing , as we get close the projects will be ordered into a list but not till the morning of the festival will decisions be made as to what we will be working on for the next month.
Omg !
Art : What ???
Lisa Lovely LPA : Just got my first squirrel pic lol
Art : … and with that we are outta time ! See you next week , bye.