Something for everyone.
I went to Clementon Park in 2011. I tried this slide and it took every ounce of my courage to go off this. It was fun but I’m not doing this again.
From a photo dad took of me and my brother coming out of a waterslide back in 1989. I was 11, and this was the first time I ever went on a waterslide. Our family rarely went to theme parks partly due to not having a car or the means to get to one via public transportation.
When I was little, our school used to swim at the Upper Mainline YMCA. I was impressed with how many pools the Y and thought the Y was massive! I joined there for a year back in 2007-08 and found it as big, if not bigger than I remember as a child. I did a series where I took pictures of every single pool in that club and made a painting of each one. This is pool B, the Y’s indoor lap pool. I remember passing it every week when we went to the indoor recreational pool for swim lessons. I was awed by the dark blue water which gave the pool an illusion of being much deeper than it actually was.
I used to go to French Creek as a child with the camps I went to. I remember swimming is this zero-entry long pool which went up to 6 feet. I took this picture in 1991 when we went with my Girl Scout Camp as a Cadette. There is something magical about the backdrop of the creek behind the long pool.
I went to Kragero, a quaint beach town in Norway by one of the fjords, several times with my family as a youth and returned there a couple times as an adult with family. My dad was born in Norway and he had friends who live in Kragero. I remember when I was seven, just before I learned how to swim, I swam in the saltwater pool with a floating device. The zero-entry pool which went up to 3 feet. I thought swimming in that pool was the greatest thing. I returned at ten after I learned to swim. I went in there for a short time and didn’t enjoy it as much. It was too babyish. I preferred swimming in the rocky fjord behind the pool. As an adult, I painted the vibrant pool with the fjord in the background feeling the nostalgia.
I made this painting from a photo my father took of my brother swimming salt water pool we went to in Tenarife back on Christmas of 1986. We were visiting my paternal grandmother there. We were so excited to swim in a saltwater pool.
In most of the pools in the USA, the diving boards have been taken down for liability reasons. I really missed to good old days of jumping, diving, and doing flips off the diving board without micromanaging rules. However, as a child, the pools I went to rarely had any waterslides, and now water slides are common. I went Europe a lot in the 2000’s and was super stoked when I saw pools with high dives but would get frustrated when I could not work up the nerve to jump off a diving board more than 1 meter. Going to pools with multiplatform diving boards was either heaven or hell, depending on my courage. I had a passion for such diving boards, though and made several paintings of them from life, or from multiple photos I took.
I made this painting from a few photos I took myself when I went to swim at Devils Pool. I had a ball jumping off the 15 feet cliff. I added myself jumping off the cliff, and me standing at the top of the cliff reading to launch.
This is a cliff and a water slide in Mountain Creek Park, Mt Vernon NJ.
This is a 60 foot deep hot spring unto a small cave above ground.
I’ve been dying to do an upside down water slide, but when I saw you had to enter a capsule that dropped you down a near vertical slide, I chickened out.
This is Lake Ontario in Rochester New York. I visited a friend in Rochester New York and we explored Lake Ontario and other places.
Untitled, screenprint monoprint, 2021
Untitled, Screenprint mono print, 2021
Leaves, screenprint monoprint, 2020
I had toxic shock when I was seven years old.
My brother was 18 when he had his wisdom teeth taken out. I was only 16 when I had mine out!
A satire of a poster of a beer commercial with four dogs, drinking and smoking. Only I did a beer commercial with four pet rats I had who acted like frat boys. They are drinking, smoking, eating pizza, and playing poker.
This image was inspired by a dream I had of visiting my best friend in a psych ward only to see Bert and Ernie in there with him.
I used a Pixelated Princess from a different Mario game and added it to the "New Super Mario Bros" background.
This is a ride I made up.
If there was a video game theme park, here are the games I would like to see as rides.
This is a screen print from a childhood drawing I did when I was eight.
This is a 10 color screenprint I did from a drawing I did when I was 9 of various interests I had.
Wentworth fanart with characters dealing with covid protocols.
Delores Umbridge- 2006-07
Big Daddy- 2008-09
Phillip, 2008-11
This is a picture of my brother in front of the London Bridge. I took several pictures of the same rat and photoshopped him. This rat is the only agouti rat I ever had, and he did not resemble as a wild rat one bit. He let his rat friends beat him up.
This is the 4 Clearwater Marine Aquarium resident dolphins, Winter, Panama, Hope, and Nicolas in the sea. Winter’s lost her tail after it got caught in the crab trap. She survived and taught herself to swim. Panama was an elderly deaf dolphin (RIP), and the biggest dolphin. Hope, Winter and Panama are swimming together. But Nicolas, in in the bottom right, swimming away from the girls off on his own. Nicolas is a burn survivor. Hope is an orphan. Her mother dies before Hope has any teeth.
Digital, 2021
This is a multi-process monotype screenprint from a photo Vita Litvak took of her dogs.
This is a multi-process monotype screenprint from a photo Vita Litvak took of her dogs.
This is a multi-process monotype screenprint from a photo Vita Litvak took of her dogs.
This is a multi-process monotype screenprint from a photo Vita Litvak took of her dogs.
Cabot, Oil on Canvas, 2015, $100
Jenny Lake, 11 x 14”, Oil on canvas, 2022, $200
Lake McDonald, Oil on Canvas, 2023
These are examples of types of art projects I teach at centers, schools and private art lessons. Most of the work I post are from the school I work at for students with autism. I come into classes and do mini lessons teaching students how to draw and paint. I also have them do mixed media work too.
This is a chalk painting on canvas done by an autistic student.
I had students with autism make sandcastles out of old cardboard boxes and glue sand from Lake Superior on it. Next they glued shells on them with a glue gun.
Conte Crayon Portrait of Joe Biden by Student who’s a huge Biden fan.
-The Timothy School 2022
Tissue Painter Painting with oil pastel drawing.
-Done by a Timothy school student, 2022
Oil pastel with tissue paper paint.
-Done by a Timothy School Student, 2022
Still Life drawing of an Eagles Balloon.
-done by a Timothy School Student, 2021
Papeir Mache Planet, 2019
-Done by Timothy School Student
A Teaching Assistant posed for the kids who drew her.
-Student from the Timothy School
Who wants ice cream?
-Timothy School Students 2019
Car drawing with oil pastel, color pencil, and conte Crayon.
done by Timothy Student- 2022
dolphin paintings
-done my Timothy School Students 2019
This image is done by a student and I burnt the image for the older students to screenprint.
I had the students trace templates on my light pad and cut out the puppets.
Done by a secondary student,
This is a drawing of a meltdown I had at camp because I was the only camper who did not get mail.
My friend and I wrote a story together and this is a collaborative illustration.
A pen and marker drawing of kids playing in a wave pool. I never went to water parks and rarely went to amusement parks as a kid and really wanted to.
This is a satiric drawing of the woman who gave me my first detention. I was scared shitless and shaking like a leaf in detention.
Me and my family taking a DC-10 to Canary Islands via Iberia Airlines.
Made the outhouse out of wood and Cookie monster out of sculpt clay.
I did this because I had a love fear of pear balloons. I knew they popped easily and my ears hurt to the point I was crying when they did. Also I was terrified of being times out.
I got four time outs in tow weeks in 1987 which was a record and for things I did not know were wrong. I was scared to get timeouts on a regular basis. The dates resemble the days I got timed out.
I grew up with parents who fed us gourmet health food. Some of the food such as cow tongue I ate as a kid but grew to think it was too weird. I craved fast food then.
My friends and I laughed over cream on the crop and switched it to cream on the crap.
I was fascinated with how many floors each building had.
I loved watches and alarm clocks. I loved looking at the digital numbers, playing with the functions and the beeping noises they made.
I did not know what anatomy was as a kid, but tried to draw the inside of an ants body. I was scared and still scared of the carpenter ants.
I had a dream about a dancing and singing toilet-ha-ha!
All the South Street Buildings were made in 2016 and 2017. They are all mixed media papier cache sculptures.
Rainbow787, 11x15”, screenprint, 2022
screenprint, 2021
screenprint, 2021
Etch, 2015
Identity Crisis, 11 x 15” cymk screenprint, 2020, $50
Coffee with the Homies, procreate, 2021
Marie and daughter Skyler,Oil on Canvas, 2015, Sold
“South Street From the 90’s is the sequel to Phoebe Murer’s show South Street From the 80’s. The medium will continue to be papier mache using recycled materials. South Street was a favorite hang out of Murer back in the 90’s.”
This is the northeast side of 4th and South Street.
