You're A Bully -Yeah!

New Website! New Blog!

Hi!  Thank you for visiting my blog.  I've been posting with Blogger since 2003.  While I was taking care of my kids and my Mom it has been the easiest way to share my drawings, thoughts and projects.  But now that my kids are growing up, and my lovely Mom has been laid to rest I have a little more time available to work on my stuff, hence www.loiskeller.com  ,Yay!   Thanks Blogger, and the world wide web, for a community I really needed when I felt I was all alone in my art, my caregiving and sometimes the world.

See ya around the inter web.

Love,
Lois

Golden Globes and #Timesup

In solidarity with all the gals tonight @goldenglobes! You have the power to speak for so many, thank you. This is why I made these portraits out of a collection of grocery bags #wearblack #timesup #goldenglobes #merylstreep #jessicachastain #emmawatson #geenadavis #emmastone #sallyhawkins #hilaryclinton

Women's March 2018

Here she is, ready for 2018. Direct message me for postcards or posters or get t-shirts and more here at Red Bubble. Red Bubble

Thank you Alabama

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD-The Contenders

I've been working on a challenging, fun and exciting commission the past 2 months for DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD's  Contenders Oscars event.  I created 5 portraits of actors they were excited about and their films for the green room, all out of Trader Joe's grocery bags.  

Squirt Guns

Deaf in One Ear

So sad to repost this drawing from 2013. #lasvegas

I Love You mural sketch

I’m so thankful for both my mothers.

Puerto Rico

Cultural Identity Series- We Are the Sky

Cultural Identity Series
"We are the Sky"
colored pencil on vellum

Hurricane Irma

Trump Fires

Trumpelstiltskin

Although Harvey storm waters are starting to recede...

Fashion Statement of the Year

My jaw dropped when I saw Melania headed to the disastrous flood waters of Texas.

The Solar Eclipse

Self portrait with Oranges

The girls are back to school, my mother is finally at peace, we work hard, we love, we are excited about life and then the news hits, more senseless violence.

Every Day Heroes

This is a project I did at Art Share LA they had asked me to do a door with my Trader Joe's collages, the news of racial violence on the Portland MAX train hit me hard, when the world hits me hard, I hit back with art. Who would think in America today people like these guys and Heather Heyer would lose their lives standing up for the rights, respect and love for all citizens. 

Portland MAX

Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Mechen and Rick Best were murdered on a commuter train in Portland, Oregon. Micah David-Cole, a young poet was seriously injured. All three of these men stood up to hate, slanderous words and vial words and misgivings towards two young Muslim teenagers. 

I have created a portrait of thier heroism using Trader Joes grocery bags. I'm a painter, yet have found a new medium in collage using bags that I have collected from friends and family. Inundated with news and stories of hate and violence it's easy for me to get overwhelmed, or tune out. These men did not, they were faced head on with what I see and hear in the news and held their ground in their belief of kindness and good will. I feel for their mothers, fathers, children, their friends, families, and for all the people on the train that day. Finding these men in the print markings of a grocery bag, a symbol of caregiving helps me express my gratitude that they had the courage along their daily routine to stand up for equality and show love in the face of hate.  

Hermosa Beach

My latest picture made with Trader Joes bags is at ShockBoxx Projects gallery in Hermosa Beach tonight.  Hermosa is the home of Black Flag and the California punk rock scene.  My suburban teenage self thought that was pretty cool!Although my Dad didn't get the music I was into and we had a few rough teenage years he sure would of been proud of my art's picture in the paper.  We never really understood each other, but we sure did love each other. After he died and I was cleaning out his desk, there was every little art opening, card, flyer, paper that had to do with me and my art.  

Wonder Women w Trader Joe's Grocery Bags.

Mike Collins, artist and owner of Shock Boxx Projects.

Cool utility box with old flyers from the scene.

Read all About it, in the Easy Reader

me and my Dad!