My Friend Painting

Lisa Mishler is a prize-winning painter who lives in Tucson, Arizona. She studied photography and media arts in college and spent 20 years as an interior designer. While working full time she also found time for taking art classes and painting. lisa_photoAfter she retired she continued to develop her painting skills and became certified to teach at The Drawing Studio (TDS). Today she teaches “Abstract Painting” classes at TDS and for a variety of arts organizations in Arizona. Lisa’s early years as an artist were influenced by the work of Paul Cezanne, Joan Miro and Marc Chagall. Her work has evolved over time. As an emerging artist she was known for her dreamlike watercolors and imaginative landscapes. More recently she studied intensively with noted Tucson painter, Josh Goldberg and has developed her own recognizable abstract style on the canvas. Today she works mostly in acrylics creating abstract, landscape and portrait pieces. She has become more experimental in this work adding texture using state-of-the-art mediums and incorporating collage on the canvas. Recent mixed media work, while mostly acrylic based, includes watercolor, encaustic and even oil paint as part of her newly evolved experimental approach.Lisa is a signature member of the Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild (SAWG) , a Signature member of Aqueous and an active member in the Southern Arizona Artist Guild (SAAG), Contemporary Artists of Southern Arizona (CASA), PaperWorks: the Sonoran Collective for Paper and Book Artists, Southern Arizona Wax Artists (SAZWAX) and the Tubac Center of the Arts.Lisa exhibits regulary with these organizations.