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Finally, West

Lauren Elyse S. October 23, 2017
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So I've been back in California a few months but I feel like I've just gotten here as I'm only now finding time to create. Finally being able to get this painting onto canvas after thinking about it for a year and a half has been a relief.

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With all the extensive planning and work I've done for this project it's only now starting to feel real with this second final candle painting done. One thing I'm allowing myself is to let these be more painterly (& imaginative) than chasing realism as 1) I'm way more drawn to painterly work personally & 2) painterly can give the impression of reality just as well as painstaking realism (if not more imho) if done right. Let's hope I can do all these right. 10 more to go, I'm a bit nervous to see if I can pull off the overall effect. I have to remind myself not to get hung up on too many details as these are all part of a whole and that I can always go back and fix things later. Picture 2 = the panels as they'll be when hung together. Picture 3 = final and the study I did side by side. Last picture = my pallet, phone background sized shots of my pallet can be screen grabbed from my stories or in my saved highlights 👌 . . . . . . . #candles #candlepainting #trompeloeil #laurenelyseart #oilpainting #mood
Quick few shots of a study I did today in prep for the next painting in this big project. Oil on paper. Thinking about letting these studies go once I'm done using them for reference. A few oil on board prep studies are available in my stories right now. . . . . . . #oilsketch #oilpainting #candle #laurenelyses #laurenelyseart
One down, eleven more to go. If you saw my stories yesterday you'd be pretty much all caught up on this large trompe l'oeil project I'm slowly working my way through. Long story short I have 12 panels I need to make look like a wall of glowing candles. (It sounds soooooo simple when I write it like that 😅). I've been working on it on and off for months and this was the first final painting I scaled up from its study. A bit stronger of a contrast than I think I wanted but it actually works better as the painting is meant to work best as night, the details will be more discernable, and I can always dial the others around it back and work to balance it out (or just go in at the very end to glaze and tweak everything). Fingers crossed this all works because it's been a lot of planning but it's still a bit of an imaginative leap as I'm not working from and solid references. I'm kind of making it up as I go along from here on out. Wish me luck. & if you want to catch up on this project I'll save the stories in my highlights. . . . . . . . . . #trompeloeil #candles #candlepainting #painting #oilpainting #laurenelyseart #atmosphere #mood #mughalarchitecture #indiainspired
Here I am, lovelorn for a person (persona?) who was gone well before I came on the scene - typical. An artist you surely know, if not from his work directly, from the fact a role he played in the 20s inspired Batman's joker, and another that inspired Diseny's Jafar, he was a tour du force in film and on stage, known for his involvement with German Expressionism, and, from the abridged biography I read, a pretty amazing person to boot. The broad strokes of his life are admirable and punk rock as fuck, I'm almost nervous at the possibility he was a person of great principle in pubic life and not so awesome in private (as can happen, though what scant biographies that are available in English point to general awesomeness) - and to that point, Conrad Veidt portrayed a gay man in an early silent film that put homosexuality in a positive light. He gave the middle finger to Goebbels and declared himself Jewish (in protest) on the Nazi 'racial questionnaire,' even though he wasn't, and dedicated his earnings to Allied forces against Germany, his home country, during WW2. He came to the US to work in film during the war and knew he would be type cast - as a German man - as a Nazi in films and wrote into his contract that if he was to play one they were all to be villains, and he then dedicated his considerable talents to portraying Nazi's for what they were. I'll let you fill in the adjectives. In eerily parallel political and social climates I hope there are more Conrad Veidts around, giving blatant 'fuck yous' to Nazis and all varieties of asshole who judge and seek to ruin peacful lives. . . . Sorry for the repost. I wanted to fix some issues the image had that I didn't notice when I transfered it from my iPad and I gave it a further polish. Bonus: the reference photo I worked from and some extra stills of Conrad mainly in his role as Cesare from Dr. Caligari's Cabinet. . . . #inktober #drawing #illustration #procreate #conradveidt #germanexpressionism #drawanyway #portrait #oldhollywood #silentfilm #cabinetofdrcaligari
Here I am, lovelorn for a person (persona?) who was gone well before I came on the scene - typical. An artist you surely know, if not from his work directly, from the fact a role he played in the 20s inspired Batman's joker, and another that inspired Diseny's Jafar, he was a tour du force in film and on stage, known for his involvement with German Expressionism, and, from the abridged biography I read, a pretty amazing person to boot. The broad strokes of his life are admirable and punk rock as fuck, I'm almost nervous at the possibility he was a person of great principle in pubic life and not so awesome in private (as can happen, though what scant biographies that are available in English point to general awesomeness) - and to that point, Conrad Veidt portrayed a gay man in an early silent film that put homosexuality in a positive light. He gave the middle finger to Goebbels and declared himself Jewish (in protest) on the Nazi 'racial questionnaire,' even though he wasn't, and dedicated his earnings to Allied forces against Germany, his home country, during WW2. He came to the US to work in film during the war and knew he would be type cast - as a German man - as a Nazi in films and wrote into his contract that if he was to play one they were all to be villains, and he then dedicated his considerable talents to portraying Nazi's for what they were. I'll let you fill in the adjectives. In eerily parallel political and social climates I hope there are more Conrad Veidts around, giving blatant 'fuck yous' to Nazis and all varieties of asshole who judge and seek to ruin peacful lives. . . . Sorry for the repost. I wanted to fix some issues the image had that I didn't notice when I transfered it from my iPad and I gave it a further polish. Bonus: the reference photo I worked from and some extra stills of Conrad mainly in his role as Cesare from Dr. Caligari's Cabinet. . . . #inktober #drawing #illustration #procreate #conradveidt #germanexpressionism #drawanyway

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