CLU senior artists are presently building artwork for their spring Senior Art shows. CLU artists artwork should be considered as wonderful investments. The gold of the future.

Why To Invest In Art?
Investing in art can be a profitable path to beautify your house and your pocketbook. Appreciate it hanging on your wall.
The interest of investors for works of art even in times of crisis is very large. Especially
In the long term can art be a lucrative investments. Here are some tips to effectively invest in art.
1. Buy original art only
2. Buy art you can enjoy. Your art can appreciate in value while you appreciate it hanging on your wall. A precious work of art to buy and keep in a vault to preserve, is meaningless.
3. what you buy. That way it will always be valuable to you.Don’t buy art that is cheap. Be willing to spend at least $300 on each artwork.
4. Buy art from an established artist.
5. Popular artists today are the main exponents of contemporary American and Italian, but also modern artists.
6. Have a trained eye to find an up and coming artist selling work for around 500 dollars. When a painter is near the cusp of their career, there is a good chance that his 500 dollar painting will go up in value.
7. Selling at auction presents a straightforward and public valuation of the work. If you are interested in a painter with no auction history, try to find out how much his work goes for at galleries and other shows.
Whether you invest in an original piece or a signed limited edition print, do your homework, and always make sure you appreciate what you buy. That way it will always be valuable to you. Remember, the only two investments to be considered in these difficult times is GOLD and ART. They grow in value every single day and never, never lose. “Do not spoil what you have have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”
Epicurus
Reprinted Lundquist Studios, P.O. Box 819, Hanalei, Hi, Hawaii 96714

I read “True innovators in the art world, and Mitch Lyons is one of them,
making the complex appear to be so simple, so clear… Mitch has added to the vocabulary of contemporary art.
(Leonard Lehrere, Department of Art and Art Professions, NYU)

I read the above and my husband and I packed up the Lamb and family dog and drove to Sante New Mexico to attend a workshop with Mitch Lyons on the art of the Clay Monotype Process. What an inspirational experience!

Since 1968 Mitch Lyons has been pioneering his image making from a slab of clay. Inspired by the Paleolithic clay print/paintings of Lascaux and Altimira Lyons re innovated the process of making imagery from a slab of stoneware clay. No printing press is needed. First a slab of soneware clay is rolled out about 1/4″thick. After allowing the slab to dry to “leather hard” consistency, colored slips are made using China clay and pigments. The colored slips are brushed on, dried and rolled into the clay slab, one color over another, building the design with images, colors and textures on the “matrix”.

As they say, a picture speaks a thousand words so following some beautiful images created by Mitch himself and the workshop participants I decided my printmaking students at CLU had to have this clay monotype printmaking experience.

The Colell family loaded up the car and returned home and I introduced my summer school printmakers to Clay Monotype Printmaking. What fun we had. Carolyn Ryan entered a combination of a textile/ printmaking art piece into a national art show and placed second. Outstanding. Cameron, Katrina , Nate, Myrna and Sharon produced very handsome clay monotypes during this summer experience.

As soon as I figure out how to attach photos of the artwork I shall do so.