Melt

Lauren Elyse S. August 2, 2018

"Melt" digital painting, 2018.

"Melt" digital painting, 2018.

I couldn't tell you if it's the weather or just a new pace my life is taking, but I'm embracing the slowdown as I let ideas simmer. In the meantime, here's another digital piece inspired by Mughal carpet designs, the scent of flowers on a warm wind, and one of my favorite colors - persimmon.

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Current studio situation. Cracked into moving forward with a painting that's long overdue for my attention while simultaneously ignoring the fact I have a huge project half way done and just waiting for the final push. Sometimes, you just have to wait to be ready. Excited for this one though. The shadow turned out better than I thought it would. Shadows painted in oils are one of my favorite effects ever, I just haven't personally painted one (with this level of definition in the shadowed object) in many moons. I can see this becoming a thing with me now though... I love the way a shadow can bruise a surface and give it life, movement, involvement.
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I had a dream I made it to your doorstep, but then forgot what to do. I was sat there wondering when someone opened the door to leave, there was laugher inside and I saw your haircut - the gloss of the strands caught in sunlight. Like two flames ignorant that the one burns for the other, small nature impedes us, but not enough you can't see the glow.
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I have been having some weiiiirrddd dreams lately. Call it the change in the seasons but I'm back into a creative burst that comes with insomnia, dreaming, feverish ideas - it's a bizzare thing, having a churning in your mind all the time, subconsciously usually, where things bubble to the top and demand to be paid attention to, painted, made. I just give way to them, it's about all I can do. Spent my afternoon working this one out yesterday. It was giving me hell at the onset but one thing I've learned in all my years of painting is to keep pushing and trust what you know. .
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It's been over a year and a half since I've put something into this sketchbook (it's one I'm particularly neurotic about), and I'm pleased that the first sketch back is one of my favorite Toulouse-Lautrec paintings (unfinished?). It's pretty impossibly hard to sketch a washy, (half finished?) painting, but I oddly enjoyed it. Raise your hand if you had no idea you needed a permission slip to sketch at the San Diego Museum of Art. No one? Just me? Typical. Maybe I'll lay in some washes of paint at some point. Maybe.
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"Dark Seas"
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Starting to think about this project again. It began three years ago with Inktober, did the bulk of it last year and can't believe another year is lapsing since I worked on it (though it took so much out of me I don't think I created much for months following 30 days of creating a fully fleshed out illustration every single day that also tied into a storyline. Was dead for a while afterwards). I have a few paintings / projects I'm juggling at the moment so things are going to be all over the place in terms of style / mediums for the rest of the year, but really, how is that even any different from any other day of creating for me so, yeah. Things and stuff as usual over here.
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