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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
From an early age I enjoyed drawing, and in later years took up oil painting and etching as well. Eventually I decided to go into art full time, which I have continued to do, putting on paper images that simply […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 3 months ago
Lynn Coleman has earned an Honorable Mention in Streetlight’s 2021 Art Contest
I moved to Southern California in 1962 from central California. The first wildfire I remember was in 1967 and started near […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 4 months ago
Robert Schultz is the 1st place winner of Streetlight’s 2021 Art Contest
Robert Schultz considers himself a fortunate man. A retired Roanoke College English professor, he still follows his daily work […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 5 months ago
The first place winner of Streetlight’s art contest is Robert Schultz of Salem, Va. Schultz’s work, Specimens of the Plague Year, documents a year in the pandemic with his thoughts, quotes from scho […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 6 months ago
Splish! Splash! There’s high drama in the clashes of two wine glasses, martini olives swirling, peppermints spinning in the Schnapps! Watermelon, cherries and tomatoes are sprayed fresh and ready to […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 8 months ago
Art creation is an organic process for me, where inspiration takes the lead and my hands merely follow. The traditional media in my repertoire includes pen, colored pencil, and acrylic paint. I am also […]
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Elizabeth Howard replied to the topic Chroma Opens October Show in the forum Elizabeth Howard 1 year, 8 months ago
“Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge“ asks artists to take an ordinary U.S. Mail postcard and paint, draw or mark it in some way. The resulting missives can focus on the political, societal or public health events that have rocked our collective world since March 2020, or they can highlight an artist’s individual practice in isola…[Read more]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, Once Upon a Time In Montecito by Trudy Hale 1 year, 8 months ago
Love this!
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, How to Weigh Loss by Charlotte Matthews 1 year, 8 months ago
Such an evocative and beautiful poem.
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
Michael Snyder has traveled the world, camera in hand, documenting the stories of those concerned with environmental change and sustainability and the spaces they inhabit.
“I want to be very inte […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 9 months ago
In the quarantined Covid year of 2020, I returned to exploring the figure in my mixed media paintings. Even though it’s been years since I’ve used the human figure as a subject, I’ve always consi […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 10 months ago
I cannot separate drawing from writing. Without drawing swallows, I cannot write spring. I am self-taught in art. I am always a student. I observe, I dream and I draw.
I grew up and live in Ankara, Turkey. […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 1 year, 12 months ago
On a warm winter day when I was five or six, I knelt on a bench in Central Park and watched as water ran down behind a sheath of ice on the face of a granite boulder. Some ten years later in Ivy, V […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years ago
There’s a line in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God that I’ve always loved. After revealing some painful family history, Nanny tells her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, “Put me down easy […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 2 months ago
My attention often falls on things that just happen to be right where they are, set down here or there, together with this or that, thoughtlessly, as we say. These are gatherings of things I happen t […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 4 months ago
Primarily a poet and writer, I came to photography by accident. I was on a summer nature walk in southern Ontario, Canada, when I got lost. It was incredibly hot and I had forgotten my water. My wife had […]
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Elizabeth Howard commented on the post, A Room Called Remember by Mary McCue 2 years, 5 months ago
A fine and touching essay.
Elizabeth Howard
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago
I have worked with children in Bosnia, crocodiles in Mexico, frogs in Puerto Rico, egrets in Bali, mushrooms in Montana, archaeologists in Spain, butterflies in Los Angeles and lectured on island […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago
I grew up in Virginia Beach where I witnessed damage and destruction of rural and natural lands for the lie called development. I feel levels of anger and disappointment when I see gree […]
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Elizabeth Howard wrote a new post 2 years, 6 months ago
Some of America’s greatest photographers roamed the country by automobile. They forever changed the context of artistic imagery. They eventually replaced traditional monochrome with color, and they shot the u […]
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