Snowday Art Studio

01/22/2024

“Aishet Chayelet” by Leah Luria

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So excited to offer this piece as a glossy acrylic print! May she bring gevura and emuna (strength and faith) to all the homes she graces!

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Upon stumbling upon this image shared on social media, I found myself profoundly moved as an artist, a woman, a jew. I felt compelled to translate its intricate layers into a visual narrative. The juxtaposition of a woman dressed in exquisite fashion, deep in prayer at the Western Wall, M16 military machine gun slung across her shoulder, stirred something within me.

In the midst of a wartime struggle none of us ever dreamed we’d see in our lifetimes - a war against the forces of pure evil, the flurry of fervent prayers for the release of captives constantly flowing up from our lips to the heavens, I sensed in this image a poignant fusion of femininity, faith, and our strength as a people.

As I embarked on translating this powerful moment into art (a total of 17 hours of digital painting and 15,871 keystrokes) I felt the urgency to convey the essence of female empowerment and our role in the upcoming geulah (yaalah, Hashem!). It is my hope that in this painting I am able to encapsulate a fragment of the complex beauty of modern Jewish identity at this moment in our history. May this artwork in some way serve as a reminder to us to continue to draw from the deep well of strength and emunah of our ancestors (especially our Imahot).

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01/10/2024

Let every day be a canvas of inspiration - this calendar featuring my paintings is a celebration of Israel’s beauty that lasts all year round!

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05/09/2022

Really enjoying playing around with coffee as paint! Observations from the field 😉: I find that a single dip of the brush into the concentrated coffee “ink” seems to stays on the brush for a crazy long time and doesn’t need to be redipped for much longer than I’m used to with watercolor or other media. This lends to beautiful, extended fluid lines and strokes, more variation in the line thickness as well. I highly suggest playing around with some coffee “paint” today!!

05/08/2022

Happy Mothers Day! These trophy paintings are a student work throwback from my after school group art classes that I used to teach around my kitchen table in Hollywood, Florida! I wholeheartedly believe that moms deserve a trophy for everything they do!

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05/06/2022

Check out my radial paper cut flowers lesson - just in time for Mother’s Day!

Snowday Art Studio with Mrs. Leah Luria presents an amazing art lesson on how to make an amazing Mother's Day card with paper cut flowers and a radial design...

05/04/2022

Is your morning cup of coffee a ritual for you? Did you know, coffee is not just for drinking? While coffee helps adults wake up, you can actually give your kids coffee too - to PAINT with! It’s such a fun way to encourage creativity and exploration without fancy art supplies!

Here’s the set up:
• Mix approx 1 tsp of instant coffee and 1 tsp or 2 of water.
• Work in layers, or make a few cups with different concentrations of coffee so you have some light, medium and dark values.
• Have the kids play around with mark-making while they’re at it - try coffee painting using a brush, twigs, spoon or even a fork and create cool parallel lines.

Now you have my encouragement to go give your kids some coffee - and try this aromatic medium out yourself!

05/03/2022

What to you paint when you don’t know what to paint? For my son it’s always birds!

05/02/2022

Here’s what’s on your favorite virtual art teacher’s desk this week! I seriously can’t stop making these. So many unique color combinations, variations of line and layering and ooh that negative space 😻! I think I’ll be decorating my daughters’ room with these flowers with all my examples from this lesson. I will be uploading the tutorial to YouTube as a little freebie just in time for !

04/26/2022

Sneak peek from today’s studio - working on a very special papercut flower art lesson for or any day!
So many possibilities to explore in variations of color, size, shape and quantity!

04/25/2022

So happy to be hanging out with my studio mate again after a couple weeks off for my big kids’ school vacation! Working on a rose drawing for an upcoming art lesson just in time for . Such great energy creating art while listening to by - thanks for the creative vibes in my ear!

04/14/2022

Sharpie+washable markers are my favorite “magical” mixed media combination for non messy art projects! Brush on some clean water over the markers and watch the unpredictable watercolor effects swirl and whirl while your black outlines stay put! Colors next to each in similar hues always look beautiful with this technique.

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