Digital color study illustration, after Keaton’s “The General,” 2020.
Usually.
The Rush, The Crash
“The Rush, The Crash” digital, 2020.
This was a fun one.
Official stance on 2020
“Untitled” digital animation, 2020.
That is all.
Wake Me When
There’s a good chance if you fall asleep around me you’ll wake up with a portrait of your slumbering.
Hedonistic Delights
Detail: Flower in a current work in progress commission.
Detail: Flower in a current work in progress commission.
There’s something distinctly sensual about working with paint. I think it has a lot to do with its lush fluidity. To be a painter, it is my opinion, you're usually some shade of hedonistic.
There's near nothing - for me - more pleasurable than a flower rendered in oils in luxurious strokes. I like to paint my flowers in one pass rather than layered with drying time in between - linseed oil added for that extra gloss and movement. For me it creates a more energetic feel when swipes of paint slide through one another, catch and meld to bring out a subtle color blend, and in the wake leaves the high relief and impression of my brush's intentional path. It's definitely trickier to prevent colors from muddling in this approach, but the reward is that of a painted flower vibrating a bit more on the canvas. Though more punishing in practice, I love a little chaotic, purposeful energy distilled into pigment, worked through to figured petal and leaf.
Detail: “Other People’s Lives” oil on canvas.
Detail: “Other People’s Lives” oil on canvas.
c u r r e n t l y
Hands, as always.
Would that I could
Oil on panel, 2019
Question: can an artist base their entire career on paintings of candles?
LA > Chi Town > Philly & Back Again
Recently found myself on a train rolling back and forth across the country, so of course I had to document it the best way I know how.
I can’t even begin to describe how difficult it is to sketch while being steadily jostled on a train for hours on end.
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Ophelia
“Ophelia” acrylic & oil on clay panel, 2019.
Opehlia. A woman who went insane because of the irrationality of man. Honestly, I get it.
i. am. exhausted.
Completed Inktober. Whoa that was rough.
Storytelling
Dark Mysteries under way.
Dark Mysteries
Inktober aims.
Apothecary’s Darling. 2018, digital
Be Wary What You’ll Find. 2018, digital
Melt
"Melt" digital painting, 2018.
Here's a piece inspired by Mughal carpet designs and the scent of flowers on a warm wind.
The Stormy Sea at Night
"Turner-esque Nocturne" Digital Painting by Lauren Elyse S. 2018.
I don't remember the first time I saw Turner's abstract atmospheric paintings, but I do remember how they made me feel. It was like a lightening bolt - they woke me up. The energy in them is insane. I particularly love Fishermen at Sea and, related in style, Whistler’s Nocturne Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. My worship of a stormy sea rolls deep, and so here is a little digital painting in the vein of Turner with a mind towards Whistler.
Finally, West
Being able to get this painting onto canvas after thinking about it for a year and a half has been a relief.
Inktober 2017
Trying to see it through the whole 30 days of inktober this time around. Here's the last week. Didn't mean to, but I think I've hit on a theme here. Let's see where it goes?
New Year, No Sleep
"Searching" acrylic on wood panel. 2016.
Waking up periodically to work on this painting. It gets in your blood I swear.
Twenty Sixteen
I can't remember the last time I was so excited for a new year! I've got a lot in the works, and one of the projects I started nearly at the stroke of midnight on the 31st of 2015 is this:
"Wandering Meadow #1" Acrylic on 6 wood panels, 2015. SOLD
"Wandering Meadow" #2 SOLD
"Wandering Meadow" #2 SOLD
"Wandering Meadow" #2 SOLD
If I could realize this dream in large scale it would be that of a long wall stretching out of sight with carefully arranged canvases telling the small stories that a sprawling meadow keeps to itself.
Norfolk Botanical Gardens
Never was there a garden I loved more.
"Bright Morning" Plein air, oil on canvas board, 2015.
"Rubens" Plein air, oil on canvas board, 2015.
Gather In the Midnight Meadows
"Gather In the Midnight Meadows" 2015 Acrylic and oil on canvas board.
A mood.