Disappearing acts as an m.o. lately, oops. Made it to dawn a while back, quick digital color study trying to wrap my head around how this could translate into paint. Shapes, shadows, and very delicate luminations. Otherwise, wrapping up two complex paintings I hope to share soon.

Newsletter is out! Oh the WPA, how I wish you would please, please, *please* make a comeback. substack.com/home/post/p-... #art #painting #laurenelyseart #sandiego

It's real!! My art is living its best life in the California sunshine. This is melting my mind more than a little bit. The installation is so, so *gorgeous* Newsletter detailing this commission will be out shortly. Sign up to get it here: laurenelyseart.substack.com #art #sandiego #paintings

Rolling along. Especially loving that bit of water from my painting of time spent in Venice. Though - one of my techniques is using phthalo green (blue shade) to build up glazed layers of a nice vibrating dark, and no camera has ever been able to pick up its glow and depths. Whomp. #art #wip

"Spilled Honey" 9x12" acrylic on claybord panel 2025 The last of the paintings now installed by the waterfront here in San Diego. See two posts down for more info about them! & join my substack for the deep dive I'm going to do on this commission (link in comments) #art #sandiego #laurenelyseart

"Lilac, Pine, Cypress, Sage" 9x12" acrylic on claybord panel 2025 Another of the commissioned paintings now installed by the waterfront here in San Diego. See my previous post for more info about them! #art #sandiego #laurenelyseart

Sneak peek! "Coral Hour" 9x12" acrylic on claybord panel 2025 Earlier this year I was commissioned to paint three landscapes of Chula Vista to be turned into 4x6' signs publicly installed at the newly opened Gaylord Pacific Resort. Well, they're finally up! (con't in comments) #sandiego

Okay, working on two paintings like this is crazy making. Slowly but surely though… (so, so much farther to go) #wip #art #painting #laurenelyseart

All I want in life, summed up in one painting: John Frederick Lewis, The Siesta, 1876 #arthistory #painting

Ahh! Just got word that three paintings I did this spring for a big public commission are installed on site! I've been holding back from sharing this for months because it's been a dream project / I've been in perpetual 'pinch me this can't be real' mode. Photos soon! Wild, just, so wild :D

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Hit some flow state today. Roughing in brighter colors before I bring desaturation into balance. I’ve never worked on two paintings simultaneously like this before, but since they’re related, makes sense. Two times the buzzy brain, though. How it started / How it’ going. Many shifts ahead. #art

My internal seasons are habitually out of step. I'm trying to work through winter pieces so they'll maybe be done by the first drifting of snow? Here's a thought from last year I worked out digitally that's on the mental back burner. Wonder if it'll ever make it on canvas. #digitalart #art

The latest. I've been thinking about personal lore and stories we tell to / about ourselves. This one has a really long rambling title, so here I'll just call it - "Stories / Myths" Acrylic on 6x8" claybord panel 2025 If you start with the lamp, the hands tell a tale. #painting #painter #art

#portfolioday eh? Here are some of my personal favs.

www.laurenelyseart.com Popping this here in case you're art curious. My website features galleries of my work, thoughts about my paintings, announcements about shows, a link to my shop, commission info, and more. I hope you see something you enjoy. #art #paintings #laurenelyseart

Edward Hopper really snuck up on me. I had seen his greatest hits, but looking into his full body of work - holy sht. I'm smitten.

Back to a favorite place. "Cove no. 5" 6x6" acrylic on claybord panel 2025 #painting #art #laurenelyseart #seascape

I painted this sketch (left) a few years ago thinking it was a quiet and magnetic view but - worthy of recording? Painted it anyway. Stumbled upon this Degas piece I'd never seen before (right) & am feeling better about the view that drew my eye. #art #painting #artistsketchbook

Memories, courtesy of my record box. Ten points if you can name the album (Twenty five if you've listened to it). This was the start of toying with perspective on the outer edge of my canvases. "Past Lives no.2" 6x12" acrylic on cradled basswood panel 2024 #painting #art #laurenelyseart #music

This is my brain on books. Art just knocks me sideways - be it books, music, paintings, fashion, you name it. I will never understand anyone who isn't absolutely voracious about art. It's the air in my lungs. "Lost Inside" 6x6" acrylic on claybord panel 2023 #art #painting #laurenelyseart

Another iteration of this favorite spot with some on site prep sketches that informed it. (Note to self, photograph this one better.) More about my sketchbooks: laurenelyseart.substack.com/p/studio-sup... "Sunset at the Cove" 6x6" acrylic on claybord panel 2023 #painting #laurenelyseart #art

#WOMENSART blog: Amrita Sher-Gil, not ‘the Indian Frida Kahlo’ womensartblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/a...

Just a little piece about drawing in orchards surrounded by my favorite people. In the comments I'll share what I was standing there drawing. "Untitled (Orchards)" 5x7" acrylic on claybord panel 2023 #art #painting #applepicking

So I have this really exciting commission on my easel, & at times I need a guide when trying to wrap my head around handling certain compositions, shapes, brushwork - art is constant study as well as practice. So I'm sitting here with one of my favorite art books - (con't in comments) #art #painting

Here's another one that vibes off yesterday's post. Why does dumb shit like this make me laugh? I saw this on my way to work and it conjured a story, so I wanted to remember it in paint. laurenelyseart.bigcartel.com "Book Review" 6x8" acrylic on claybord panel 2024 #art #painting #bookart

Painted this before I thought we'd get thrown a shovel. A scene about my town. Love the street painter for this gem. I have a selection of original paintings, like this one, and prints available in my shop: laurenelyseart.bigcartel.com "Over It" 6x6" Acrylic on claybord panel 2024 #art #painting

Some moments especially need remembering in paint, this was one of them. "Blurred Lines" 6x12" acrylic on cradled basswood panel 2024 #painting #art #nocturne #traditionalart #film #vintagefilm

& my alternate, keyed up take on yesterday's color study. I wanted to paint this ten more times, but other projects took hold. Original illustration from the January 1918 cover of McCalls magazine by illustrator Z.P. Nikoloaki. Acrylic on 5x7" claybord panel 2023 #art #painting #writing #hands

Color study of a zoomed in view from the January 1918 cover of McCalls magazine by illustrator Z.P. Nikoloaki. I live for the golden age of illustration, and these hands are just SO elegant, could not resist. Acrylic on 5x7" claybord panel 2023 #colorstudy #hands #writing #art #painting

Thoughts on staying or going, intensified. Messages to myself about music and trains at night and brilliant architecture. I love this apartment so much, I want to paint every inch of it. "In Two Minds About It" Acrylic on 6x12" cradled basswood panel 2024 #art #painting #painter

An ode to the act of painting and what I really want to remember of my years spent doing this. My palette from one session working on my living room 'plein air' piece (another act of remembering). "4th Session, The Artist's Living Room" Acrylic on claybord panel 2024 #art #trompeloeil #painting

Sketchbook color studies. Toulouse is such a riotous delight. Otherwise, color experiments in off the cuff geometric compositions. #sketchbook #toulouselautrec #colorstudy #laurenelyseart #art #traditionalart #painting

Sometimes I just want a pencil and hours to burn looking for light in shadow. Sketchbook pages. 2022 #drawing #sketchbook #laurenelyseart #traditionalart #art

Some more sketchbooking. laurenelyseart.com/sketchbook Acrylic on moleskine paper. 2021 #painting #woods #moody #laurenelyseart #art

Sharing older work here, oof. Right in the feels. I reopened the gallery on my website with this unfinished illustrative series: laurenelyseart.com/dark-marrow "Echos" Digital 2018 (If you haven't noticed yet, we have a thing for hands around here.) #illustration #hands #art

Still rummaging through my archive. Two older pieces I feel vibe together. An illustration from a series I did for Inktober and an alla prima that shows the static of my mind, it's filled with lambent candles and ferns. Untitled Brush pen on paper 2017 "At Night" 5x7" Oil on panel 2019 #art

Some more older work since I was diving into my files for those other pieces. The first plein air I ever painted. What a crazy feeling that was. "Bright Morning" Oil on canvas board 2015 #painting #pleinair #art #traditionalart

I think this painting tops them all for my personal favorite. It was born out of a really serene state of mind, you can read more about it here: laurenelyseart.substack.com/p/gather-in-... "Gather in the Midnight Meadows" 11x14" acrylic & oil on canvas panel 2015 #art #painting

A corner of the desk where I paint. We're now in paintings about paintings about paintings about painting paintings territory "Art Heroes" 8x8 acrylic on cradled basswood panel 2024 #painting #art #laurenelyseart

Sketchbook page no.56 Color study / master copy of An Indian Prince by László. Finished / in progress. Learn more about my sketchbooks here: laurenelyseart.substack.com/p/cloudy-ski... Acrylic in pocket sized moleskine. 2021 #painting #mastercopy #colorstudy #art #laurenelyseart

More books, because books, and the cool light of winter. "Books no.2" 5x7" acrylic on claybord panel. 2021 #books #painting

There is little that calms me down quite like a book in hand. I will never get over how grateful I am that they exist. "Books no.4" 5x7" acrylic on claybord panel 2023 #painting #books #laurenelyseart

Another view of the cove. "Cove no.4" 6x6" Acrylic on claybord panel 2024 #painting #pleinair #laureneylseart

Driven mad she was, I get it. "Opehlia" 5x7" acrylic and oil on claybord panel 2019 #painting #laurenelyseart

More sketchbook color studies from two favs: Robert Genn & Joaquim Mir. #sketchbook #laurenelyseart

Continuing to air out my sketchbook. Acrylic / no.2 pencil in a pocket sized Moleskine. #sketchbook #artistsketchbook #laurenelyseart #busterkeaton

Just some sketchbook pages. Sorolla and Salokivi color studies. Acrylic on (I think) 3.5x5.5" moleskine paper. I adore painting on this paper, I need to get some large sheets. #painting #sketchbook #laurenelyseart

More thoughts about spring. From a hike a few yeas back. Also, all these firings are illegal af, stand with federal workers, get loud about it. "Old into New" 5x7" acrylic on clayboard panel. 2023 #painting #hike #laurenelyseart

Another from my autochrome obsession, one that - if not kick started - definitely fueled my love of this type of early photography. Based on a photo by Thomas Shields Clarke. "In Reverie" 5x7" acrylic on claybord panel. 2023 #painting