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Lisa Hunt Art

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IMAGES FROM THE FANTASTICAL CREATURES TAROT
PUBLICATIONS
• Children's book - One Is a Mouse (Simon & Schuster 1995)
• Shapeshifter Tarot (Llewellyn Publications 1998)
• The Celtic Dragon Tarot (Llewellyn Publications 1999)
• Celestial Goddesses: An Illustrated Book (Llewellyn Publications 2001)
• Animals Divine Tarot (Llewellyn Publications 2005)
-- Winner 2006 COVR Visionary Award
• Fantastical Creatures Tarot (US Games 2007)
• Various book/magazine covers and interior illustrations
• Calendars including the SageWoman calendars
• Numerous illustrations for the gaming industry
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Lisa draws on nature for inspiration. She has stacks of sketchbooks that are filled with ideas, notes, studies and all manner of creative exploration. While a student at art school sketching and conceptual designing (pre-production) became her specialty and she carried those skills over into her professional life as a conceptual designer and draftsperson for production companies in South Florida. These days, Lisa has focused more on her illustration work and writing, but her love and desire to sketch has persisted. Sometimes her sketches will activate her writing ideas and oftentimes these two disciplines will converge when formulating a more extensive idea.
All of Lisa's paintings start with a sketch--the most important aspect of her creative delivery. It is during sketching when Lisa taps into an ineffable energy that translates into raw creativity. Many of Lisa's final paintings can be identified in the sketches. Lisa doesn't just draw a tree, but she sees the nuances in its design and the possibilities for it's evolution into a work of fantasy. Many of Lisa's trees house spirits, creatures and symbols. She looks at the world beyond a perceived reality and instead probes the possibilities of what her subjects can be and mean to the viewer. Her writing attempts to explicate these visions in a manner that makes them more tangible. Through her art and writing, Lisa is trying to capture something resonating from the soul --something that fuels her creative drive and keeps her out "in the field" sketching.
Lisa attended the Educational Center for the Arts (ECA) in New Haven, Connecticut, during her senior year of high school. It was the first strong indication to herself and those around her that she intended to become a professional artist. In her early years as a budding artist, Lisa drew anywhere and everywhere -- from the family's kitchen to a makeshift workspace she made out of her bedroom closet.
You can read Lisa's complete bio HERE .
You can visit her website at www.LisaHuntArt.com

My Interests

art/sketching/writing
collecting books
reading/researching
studying tarot
playing chess with my hubby
playing piano
Tae Kwon Do
running & yoga
gardening (it's gardening season in Florida!)
cooking homemade
Home improvement projects
space exploration
Learning!

I'd like to meet:

Artists, authors, tarot enthusiasts, and other creative people with similar interests, space enthusiasts, mythologists/mythographers, those interested in depth psychology (Jung) and nice people in general. No egomaniacs please!

FantasticalCreatures.com
If you have a moment, feel free to visit the website for my new tarot deck, the Fantastical Creatures Tarot. I once again joined creative forces with D. J. Conway to create a deck that we are both very proud of. It is on sale as of August from the U. S. Games web and from other fine retailers. There is a link to the sale page at the site.

Music:

Chopin (my all time favorite classical composer)
Nick Drake
Debussy
Porcupine Tree
Moody Blues
Eels
Mofro
Rush
Marianne
Rick Bain
Faithfull
classical French Romantic, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, Grieg, Ravel, The Blues, an eclectic mix depending on my mood

Right now I'm enjoying:
The Snowman soundtrack by Howard Blake
Mendelssohn

Never tire of listening to: Chopin: Nocturnes op.9, No.2 Eb major and op.27, No.2 Db major;
Grieg: I love you op.5, No.3;
Mendelssohn: The Venetian Gondola op.30, No.6;
Rachmaninov: Piano concerto No.3 in D Minor, Op.30

Movies:

science fiction
fantasy
historical
animation
drama
Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan
Terminator
Spirited Away
Blade Runner
Contact
Apollo 13 (the book was good too)
Hamlet (Laurence Olivier 1948 version)
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Galaxy Quest (I crack up everytime)
A Boy and his Dog (based on a Harlen Elison short story)
Shirley Valentine
The Birdcage
Any Terry Gilliam or Tim Burton movie

Television:

I don't watch much TV, but when I do:
History Channel
PBS
Sci-Fi Channel
Cartoon network, Adult Swim
TV Shows: Star Trek, Twilight Zone, Futurama, The Prisoner (gotta love it!), Drawn Together (a guilty pleasure),etc. Lately, Bizarre Foods and History Channel

Books:

The Giant All Color Book of Fairy Tales: 50 Best Loved Stories (Golden Books) –Received when I was 4 years old. Worn, but it is still loved.
Dream Animals by James Hillman, paintings by Margot McClean –My all time favorite!
Fairy Tales from South Africa by Bourhill & Drake –I have an original 1908 printing and it is a treasure!
Buffalo Girls, Won’t You Come Out Tonight by Ursula LeGuin, illustrated by Susan Seddon Boulet
Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo by Janet A. Kaplan
Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers
Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious by Carl G, Jung
Jung and Tarot:An Archetypal Journey by Sallie Nichols
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
Shaman: The Paintings of Susan Seddon Boulet
The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson, illustrated by Sulamith Wulfing
Goddesses in World Mythology by Martha Ann Imel et al
Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom by Rachel Pollack
21 Ways to Read a Tarot Card by Mary K. Greer
The Dream Hunters by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
The Complete Concrete by Paul Chadwick
Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
Dragonworld by Byron Preiss and Michael Reaves (illustrated by Joseph Zucker)
Charlotte’s Web by E.B White – A childhood favorite I read over and over again.
When God was a Woman by Merlin Stone … and so many more, too many to list!

Heroes:

Samurai Jack
Captain Kirk
Joseph Campbell
Carl Jung
Maria Tatar
Jack Zipes
James Hillman
Master Song
Wonder Woman
Dr. Seuss
Jacques Cousteau
Merlin Stone
Terri Windling
A.A. Milne
Beatrix Potter
Sarah Connor
Mecki
Sulamith Wulfing
Remedios Varo
Brothers Grimm
Hans Christian Anderson

Some of my creative influences:

Sulamith Wulfing, Remedios Varos, Susan Seddon Boulet, Salvador Dali, Marilee Heyer, Margot McLean, JW Waterhouse, Women pre-raphaelite artists, The Romantic painters of the 19th century, Adolphe-William Bougereau, Caspar Friedrich, Gustav Klimt, Arthur Rackham, Yoshitaka Amano, Robert Ingpen, David Mack, Alan Lee, Brian Froud, Lisbeth Zwerger, P.J. Lynch, Gennedy Spirin, Kinuko Craft, Trina Schart Hyman, Lauren Mills & Dennis Nolan, Leo & Diane Dillon, Richard Jesse Watson, P.J. Lynch and many more.