Alyssa D'Anna Art

07/18/2017

If you feel guilty every time you're served food in styrofoam like I do, make something beautiful with it!

12/07/2016

Oh, to be able to afford this much oil paint.

GASP! Ceramics? No. Cake frosting? No. Brace yourself, it’s OIL PAINT! Both of these stunning pieces are from a series titled “Under Heaven”, which could not be more accurate! I saw the heavenly work of Chinese artist Xu Zhen when I was at Art Basel Miami Beach last week. It took my breath away, obv...

09/08/2016

https://www.facebook.com/satisfyingcontent/posts/1050256818427192

08/31/2016

The dopest.

01/12/2016

Guys, give me something to paint. Person/place/thing/ideas welcome.

09/21/2015

THIS IS REAL, GUYS.

She thought she world “try oils” — but that was 1999!

09/02/2015

YES, YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES. Worth a watch, guys!

So you look at a work of art and think to yourself, I could have done that. And maybe you really could have, but the issue here is more complex than that -- ...

07/29/2015

Took a fabulous macrame workshop this weekend at The Barn in Tivoli with Emily Katz. Hung my finished piece in our spare bedroom in Harlem-- a work-in-progress studio of sorts. It made me feel both cozy and inspired. So inspired that I kept Jeremy up all night hammering nails into a loom. Stay tuned for what's next!

02/08/2015

When I'm stuck, I turn to playful methods to bring spontaneity back to my work. This is a great example of one way to do that!

I'm trying this

01/18/2015

Art making is the silent type. Here are Paul Newman's beautiful 21 Types of Silence.

"Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy; the sober silence that goes with a solemn animal face; the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul, whence emerge new thoughts; the alive silence of alert perception, ready to say, “This… this…”; the musical silence that accompanies absorbed activity; the silence of listening to another speak, catching the drift and helping him be clear; the noisy silence of resentment and self-recrimination, loud and subvocal speech but sullen to say it; baffled silence; the silence of peaceful accord with other persons or communion with the cosmos.

"There is the dumb silence of slumber or apathy... the fertile silence of awareness, pasturing the soul... the silence of peaceful accord wi

01/15/2015

Living in a tiny New York studio isn't exactly conducive to painting, at least at the scale or mess-factor I'm used to. I realized I had to adapt if I wanted to stay creative. (Pictured are Nihonga watercolors and they are glorious.)

01/07/2015

This is pretty cool. Picasso was a night owl!

Discover how some of the world’s greatest minds organized their daily routines. We delved into their diaries and other documents to see how they worked, slept and exercised their way to success.