New Work by Linda A. Levy

Detail Celtic Knot Platter, Linda Levy, LA Levy, Linda A. Levy, Ceramics, Artist, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

Scallop Platter, Linda Levy, LA Levy, Linda A. Levy, Ceramics, Artist, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

Detail Scallop Platter, Linda Levy, LA Levy, Linda A. Levy, Ceramics, Artist, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

Oak Leaf Platter, Linda Levy, LA Levy, Linda A. Levy, Ceramics, Artist, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

Detail Maple Leaf Platter, Linda Levy, LA Levy, Linda A. Levy, Ceramics, Artist, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

New Paintings - Local Landscapes - July 2023

"Eucalyptus Trees" digital painting, Linda A. Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, artist

"Spring in the Reserve" digital painting, Linda A. Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, artist

"Costanoa" digital painting, Linda A. Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, artist

"Wilder Ranch Loop" digital painting, Linda A. Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, artist

"Big Sur Coast" digital painting, Linda A. Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, artist

"Wilder Ranch Cliffs" digital painting, Linda A. Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California, artist

More figurative sculptures - for DoonArt Tour 2023
Works in progress.
These pieces are in the process of drying completely before bisque firing and then glaze firing.

"Pensive" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Pensive" detail of torso, Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Little Lady 1" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

front, "Little Lady 1" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Little Lady 2" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

front, "Little Lady 2" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Little Lady 2" , back, Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Fainting Couch" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Fainting Couch" , side view, Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Little Lady 3" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Little Lady 3" , back view, Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

"Little Lady 4" Ceramic Sculpture, in process, Linda A Levy, LA Levy, Linda Levy, artist, sculptor, Bonny Doon, Santa Cruz, California

New Life Drawing Adventures

Ceramics - May, 2021

Quyle Clay Sandstone Buff clay body, and various Amaco Cone 6 glazes along with my own cone 6 glazes. A PDF document with ALL images and specific glaze information

Ginko Leaf Platter Detail -Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy - LA Levy - Linda A. Levy - for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Grape & Leaf pattern platter - Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy - LA Levy - Linda A. Levy - for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail from Grape & Leaf pattern platter, Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail of Henna Hands Platter, Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy - LA Levy - Linda A. Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Maple & Redwood Leaves Plate, Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy - LA Levy - Linda A. Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail of Maple & Redwood Leaves Plate, Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy- LA Levy, Linda A. Levy - for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail of Spiral Plate, Ceramics: Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Using a Quyle Clay Sandstone Buff clay body, I tried various Amaco Cone 6 glazes along with my own cone 6 glazes. I also experimented with applying a black underglaze onto the textures, then brushed it off, leaving more definition of my designs. A PDF document with ALL images and specific glaze information

Ceramics - April, 2020

Medium Ceramic Bowl - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Test Tile Dish example 1 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Test Tile Dish example 2 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.Test Tile Dish example 1 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Test Tile Dish example 3 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Test Tile Dish example 4 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail from Ceramic Boat - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

"Henna Hands" - Ceramic Boat - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail of "Henna Hands" - Ceramic Boat - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Detail of "Ginko" - Ceramic dish- Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Ceramic Mug #1 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Ceramic Mug #2 - Clay has called to Linda Levy for over 50 years. She has learned wheel throwing techniques, handbuilding, as well as glaze chemistry. Her latest sculptural works are inspired by working with live models. Linda's handbuilt plates and platters usually use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures.

Experimenting with a "new" clay body - it is a darker reddish brown, and when it is fired with a glaze on it, the iron particles create dark speckles in the glaze. Below are some images of the raw pieces, and one glazed.

Linda Levy's handbuilt plates and platters use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Raw, unfired clay platter using a Ginko Leaf design.
Linda Levy's handbuilt plates and platters use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

A set of ceramic platters, unfired, designed using her handmade ceramic grape/leaves roller. Linda Levy's handbuilt plates and platters use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Detail view of the Grape/leaves textured platter - Linda Levy's handbuilt plates and platters use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

A shallow bowl, unfired clay, handbuilt and impressed with a design using an original, created ceramic texture roller. Linda Levy's handbuilt plates and platters use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Glazed bowl, showing the effect of the clay texture on the final glazed design. Linda Levy's handbuilt plates and platters use her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Ceramics - September, 2019

Recovering has been a long experience, but I am now able to get my hands back into clay. I recently created some more "Little Lady" sculptures in porcelain, along with a bunch of plates, and pulled them out of the kiln...these are going into a Ceramics show in Sept - Oct. Whooopppeee!

Linda Levy's handbuilt figurative sculptures are created using a subtractive method, and are complimented by the use of her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Front view of figurative ceramic sculpture. Linda Levy's handbuilt figurative sculptures are created using a subtractive method, and are complimented by the use of her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Side view of small model for "Isolation" sculpture. Linda Levy's handbuilt figurative sculptures are created using a subtractive method, and are complimented by the use of her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Detail of "Isolation" sculpture, a model for a larger sculpture. Linda Levy's handbuilt figurative sculptures are created using a subtractive method, and are complimented by the use of her hand-created ceramic rollers to impart designs & textures on her ceramics, ceramicist, ceramic art, sculpture, and ceramic sculpture.

Artworks - February, 2018

Just upgraded my Painter program by Corel to Painter V. 2018 and WOW! Excited to explore and learn all the new advances in the program: thick paint, selection tools, texture brushes, etc.

Digital Painting by Linda A. Levy - using Corel's Painter 2018. Figurative drawing composited on image of vials of pigment.

Digital Painting by LA Levy, 2018, using Corel's Painter. Raven on a branch composited over decaying background, postcard from Picasso,

White Raven flying Over Santa Cruz, original Digital Painting by Linda Levy, 2018. Drawing of a Raven composited over an old map of Santa Cruz, painted image of trees.

Artworks - July, 2017

Explorations in Digital Painting - from a live model 7 minute pose. My meanderings using Painter (C) Corel.

Artworks - February, 2016

Slide show at left - drawings from Life Drawing sessions during February. Models Patrice Wallace and Michael Barnes. These are all 7 minute sketches done using a Tombow pen and water. Original sizes are 18" x 24", on acid-free paper.

Artworks - January, 2016

Slide show at left - these are all drawings done during a Life Drawing session on January 20, with model Kyle Vasquez.

The drawings are all done using Tombow pens and water on acid free papers, 18" x 24". The Tombow pens have two ends: one is a fairly tough felt tip brush and the other is a small line felt tip. The ink is non-toxic and water-soluble. I wind up using the larger, brushy end for all the drawings.

Each pose is 7 minutes long.

Many of these poses will be redrawn in Painter, using similar brushes: a thick -n-thin felt tip marker, and a blender brush,, "just add water", where I will create an atmospheric, highly textured background and integrate the figure into/onto the background.. See my Figurative Painting page for examples of finished works.

Artworks - October, 2015

"Let the Chips Fall" at left

"Pipe Dreams" at right

Both of these pieces are framed and on display in the studio. Framed size is 14" x 20". They are $100 each.

These are one-of-a-kind artworks: each piece is printed using Epson Archival Inks on matching Epson Archival Papers: at least 100 years guaranteed.

Once I am satisfied with the results, that's it, I only produce 1 image.

Any questions? Please contact me.

Artworks - August - September, 2015

A few Ravens to whet one's whistle. Been reading more about the more than significant explosion of the Raven population on our west coast. According to the Cornell University Ornithological studies, the population of ravens has risen 7Kx since 1970. That's a LOT of Ravens, and I'm sure most of them are in my yard......

Artworks - June - July, 2015

The slide show on the right, shows latest artworks created in Painter. The textured backgrounds are derived from old rusted surfaces, patina-ed metal surfaces, old stained papers. I have added another dimension of texture using collected hand-written document images from famous authors, artists, scientists, and added the writing into the backgrounds. The writing has been disrupted by my using various Painter brushes to disturb it enough to be unreadable from what it was originally. Some small bits do "peak" through.

Artworks January - May, 2015

The slides (at left) show some of my latest "Off the Wall" series of paintings. Over the past 2 years, I have been influenced by all the arche"textural" environment - in our cities, country side - the decay of our lives. These paintings have at their base, imagery of old walls, rusting, corroding metals, building siding, rusted boat hulls. I've incorporated my drawings from sessions with live models. They started my "Off the Wall" direction....and I now think of them as modern cave paintings.

Enjoy!