lisa m. rasmussen ms/mfa

Hi! I’m lisa, a native of Pittsburgh, PA.

I see myself as an artist of multiple talents. I work in many different media over a variety of subjects.

The tactile nature of creating my work is very important to me. The audience can see my hand in the works that I create. Drawing, painting and making things with my hands have become my peace and my solace, my portal to a different world. It is just me and the feel of the pencil or paint brush in my hand, the texture of the paper, mixing the paint, gliding the brush across the page and watching the watercolors intermingling on the paper, or pressing the pencil into the paper and seeing the graphite or ink marks changing from dark to light as I adjust the pressure and frequency of the marks, are all tactile and sensory experiences that attract me to work in this way. I always feel amazed that I can take a blank piece of paper and create a whole world on it if I want to. Much of the work I do is botanical in nature. I’ve always been interested in plants and flowers from when I was a little kid. I would go out to the back yard and look closely at the wild flowers that grew there.

Part of me feels that making things with one’s hands is becoming a dying art. I want to keep that tradition alive.

I work both digitally and traditionally.

I am happy to take on freelance and commissioned work in Illustration, Book Design, Graphic Design or Fine Art.

I am available to teach workshops in drawing, watercolors, colored pencil, pastels, printmaking, book arts or other things that you see here on my website.

My many different experiences, include being an in-house graphic designer, an illustrator, a faculty member at an area university, a fine artist and faculty member at two botanic gardens. I love what I do!