Still exploring the shifting personalities of this view.
Here's the bright flashiness before things subdue, little by little neighbors turn out their lights, and the glitter of the city floats into the sky.
“Prelude” acrylic on 6x12” cradled basswood panel, 2024. All rights reserved.
My first go at a snow painting (if you don't count one Sorolla study).
This is largely imagined, too, since there's no snow near me. Based off my "Summer Sounds" painting from last year, wondering what it would look like blanketed in sherbet sunrise powder. Here are the two of them.
More feels.
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“Blurred Lines” acrylic on 6x12” basswood panel, 2024. All rights reserved.
More thoughts on light.
If you want to know a little story about this unassuming scene, click here.
Finished up the last of my summer paintings yesterday. Here’s one of them. A shame you can’t hear the soft symphony of bug & birdsong found here.
When you’re young, there are things in life you take as a given. Because, what reason would you have to second guess them? As I’ve grown, the one thing I long for with an ache that feels like a part of me is missing is a garden. (Happily, in my current place we’ve worked hard to set up a mini one, but I still dream of acreage.)
This scene is of the first garden in my life, and I’ll always think of who tended to it, what it taught & provided, and how special it is to have a garden.
Sometimes the ocean really is that purple.
& now I’m enamored with light filtering up through tree lined streets.
“Sunset at the Cove” acrylic on clayboard.
I have a crush on this place. Expect to see more of it.
At the point of quick studies and planning paintings with sketches.
See more of my plein air sketchbook here.
Though really, why not do both.
Ten points if you can name who belongs to this rarest of smiles.
Back from disappearing for a bit.
Fell in love with the simplicity of a no. 2 pencil recently.
I didn’t think so before I did this study and I’m more convinced after.
Pages in my sketchbook - two color studies playing around with palettes I don’t naturally gravitate to and this study of ‘At The Moulin Rouge’ circa 1895.
Lautrec has made a solid case for bringing black onto my palette.
Oil on panel, 2021. Lauren Elyse S.
This park has a lot of little secrets, but one of my absolute favorites is this lion fountain that you have to wander a bit to find.
Just a few pages of my current sketchbook as I practice & plan for more plein air sessions.
“Cove at Midday” Lauren Elyse S, 2021. Oils on clayboard.
Literally. Finally got out to plein air with my new, lightweight set up yesterday. Could’ve done without the sand wasps about my ankles.
My love affair with wandering and this cove continues. A few drawings and a painting from today.
It feels a bit cliché to have Sorolla as an art hero, but he’s earned that status about twenty-three thousand times over and all you need to do is look at one single piece of his work to understand why.
Digital study of his Rosebush at the Alcazar of Seville.
Digital color study illustration, after Keaton’s “The General,” 2020.
Usually.
“The Rush, The Crash” digital, 2020.
This was a fun one.
“Untitled” digital animation, 2020.
That is all.