http://www.amyfisherart.com Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:28:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I will be a vendor at a wonderful fundraising event for the Providence St Peter Foundation. It is new this year and is called LADIES NIGHT OUT for guests 21 and over. What - Ladies' Night Out - a night of beverages, savory and sweet treats and shopping! A ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2011/uncategorized/christmas-forest-event-nov-28/ There is an new artsy resale shop / vintage boutique in Lacey called Retro 360. It is located just west of St Martin's Marcus Pavilion on Pacific Avenue in Lacey WA (4821 Pacific Ave SE STE B 455-4637) Retro360Boutique@yahoo.com The clothing, shoes, boots and accessories are in new or nearly ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2011/uncategorized/retro-360/ A great way to start any painting session is to make thumbnail sketches. Whatever subject you have in mind or in view demands a composition. Composition is the arrangement of shapes within a format. The shapes you draw are positive shapes. The shapes created by the ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2011/uncategorized/thumbnails/ Of all my work done over decades I feel akin to my drawings...sketches mostly. If the house were burning I might rush to save my sketchbooks before any other art work. The reason is the sketches are like little stories, visual ideas that reflect on a particular time ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2011/uncategorized/a-drawing-a-day/ DAY -- SATURDAY NOV 20 TIME -- 10 - 4 WHERE -- NORTH OLYMPIA FIRE STATION, 5046 BOSTON HARBOR RD NE OLYMPIA WA Please join me again this year for the annual show and sale sponsored by Friends of Olympia Library to raise money for book purchases and special events at the ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2010/uncategorized/nov-20-art-sale-to-benefit-olympia-library/ The other evening my husband called my attention to a beautifully melodic bird song coming from the vicinity of the 50 year-old apple tree in our backyard. After searching the leafy tree in vain I picked up Morse's "Birds of the Puget Sound Region" and began checking song descriptions ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2010/uncategorized/drunken-robin/ Materials tip - If you like fine line ink sketching, the Paper Mate Pro-FIT retractable ball point pen F 0.7 mm is a great, inexpensive tool. I bought a box of 12 at Office Depot. They have a rubber grip that adds comfort and reduces hand fatigue. I ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2010/uncategorized/papermate-for-drawing/ HI THANKS TO ALL WHO CAME TO THE SUCCESSFUL ART SHOW AND SALE TO BENEFIT THE OLYMPIA LIBRARY LAST WEEKEND. THE GREAT NEWS IS THAT I WILL BE THERE AGAIN THIS FRIDAY TAKING THE PLACE OF SOMEONE WHO HAD TO CANCEL AT THE LAST MINUTE. I HAD SUCH A ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2009/uncategorized/art-showsale-friday-1211/ Mark your calendars now. December 4th (Friday) 4 - 8 pm and December 5th (Saturday) 9 am - 4:30 pm I will be at the downtown Olympia WA Library at 313 8th Ave SE. Please come. I'll have cards, prints, original w/c and acrylic paintings and painted ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2009/announcements/december-art-sale/ The call of a loon is a haunting, ethereal sound, traveling over a lake like a smooth flat rock skipping its surface. I thought about the loon this morning when the song of the Swainson's thrush greeted me in the dense woods, its liquid, rising trill riquocheting off branches ... http://www.amyfisherart.com/2009/uncategorized/thrushes-skimmers-and-terns/