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 (tears). 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.
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.
The colors & textures of this field - strewn with decaying logs and fresh sprigs of grass - is a reminder this time of year always brings. Let things change.
“Sunset at the Cove” acrylic on clayboard.
I have a crush on this place. Expect to see more of it.
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.
Been feeling a lot of chaotic energy lately. Was needing an outlet in some energetic lines so I looked to the last scene of Keaton’s Battling Butler to satisfy my urge.
Been a very long time since I’ve approached line work like this. I feel like I’ll need more of it to get this cabin fever knocked out.
Self portraits I did in the before times.
“twenty-twenty” digital self portrait, 2020.
“Pass Through” digital self portrait 2020.
Digital color study illustration, after Keaton’s “The General,” 2020.
We’re here again. Please wear a mask.
I’m definitely biased, but giving art as a gift is one of the most badass gifts of all.
A recent commission.
“Maddie” Digital Portrait, 2020, Lauren Elyse S.
“Reaching into the Void” digital illustration, Lauren Elyse S, 2020
Don’t ask me, I don’t even know anymore. This year has broken open my brain and weird things are coming out. Letting everything take shape rather than trying to bend it to my will has been a really strange process. Gonna let it ride because, why not?
“TwentyTwenty” digital illustration, Lauren Elyse S. 2020.
Is haunted. Self portrait of the times we’re experiencing.