What Took Me So Long

I got lost.
I'm home now.
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Carlo (for Betti Green)

This will be a memorial painting for a furrever friend. The bottle will hold ashes.

This EarthPainting on canvas, 12" X 12" features real beach sand, and other minerals. Right now where I'm building the surf it is buried in a light dusting of alabaster.  I will lightly brush it away after it dries some more. I will lightly brush it round while it soaks into a  line of clear tar gel, by Golden Paints. No artist's color is used: EarthPaint is the mixed medium of artist Laura Z naturally-colored gemstones and minerals as the only source of rich, sparkling,  gemmy color. EarthPaint: Where Cave Painting Meets Canvas. Stone Age Contemporary Art on canvas. All original.

Supermoon,    Laura Z , 2016

EarthPaint on canvas, 12" x 12" 

Private Collection

I'd like to thank the editors at emptyeasel.com (and belatedly so) for featuring my blog post "Head in the Clouds; Hands in the Earth"!

 I had quite forgotten I submitted it, and just surprised myself when I stumbled across it in a search!

Here's the link:

http://emptyeasel.com/2016/12/06/laura-zepeda-head-in-the-clouds-hands-in-the-earth/

Are You Gonna Eat That? Confessions of a Starving Artist

Swim at Your Own Risk
 Oil pastel on vellum,   Laura Z

There are so many cliches and stereotypes that surround the word "artist." Just because they are often true doesn't mean they aren't also problematic, both for the artist's identity and how s/he is perceived.

Usually when I tell people I'm am artist, I get THE LOOK. Most people won't come right out and say the word crazy, but I can tell it's rattling around in there somewhere, along with questions like:

         "Is it contagious?"

         "Should I avoid eye contact?" 

         "What does an artist eat in the wild?"

HELP! (Calling all Expert Organizers)

Organization does not come naturally to me. I've never quite understood why I should clean up just to make a new mess.

But when I began to think about blogging and sharing my creative process, it became apparent that I would need a more photogenic studio space than the usual tidal wave of materials that only makes sense to me (and not much sense at that).

News From the Oddball Art Laboratory

Breaking EarthPaint News!

Here in the Oddball Art Laboratory, art is also a science, with lots of accidental discoveries. Today's observation is a major breakthrough!

Organizing Chaos

A tidy studio space: for me, this usually means one in which art is not being actively created.

Overdue Changes and Updates

I have finally updated a few of the main blog pages, so they won't appear in the blog feed, but if you will look to the top left column of this page you will see links for "About Me" and two updated Gallery pages. Please check it out, and as always, I'd love some likes, shares, and comments!

These are the links:

About Me

Gallery of Works: EarthPaint

Gallery of Works: Weirdo Edition


And here's a picture of me, dressed up like a gypsy in the last stage play I did. For no reason. (Well, maybe two reasons...)

Is it odd that my "costume" actually consisted of my own clothes?

I don't think so.