Lauren Elyse S.

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.

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I have my work intermixed with my friends' work and antique paintings all over my house. Without fail, my visitors always pick out my friend's work as their fav and ask of it's mine. Which makes me both intensely proud of my artists friends and humbled as hell at my visitor's tastes, haha.

Go easy on yourself! Those can tire you out immensely.

Just recently found out about this artist, can't get enough of his work.

Ho! 😍

Truly gorgeous

The ebb and flow can be tough, I hope you find a way to let it take you where it needs. Rest is part of the process.

as always, SO GOOD

Wow, this is fantastically gorgeous! So excited to see you post here!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Such Delacroix vibes

WPA Dreams Or - a recent art commission now on public view in San Diego.

Newsletter is out! Oh the WPA, how I wish you would please, please, *please* make a comeback.

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Haha they super are. You rock up to them and it's like 😳😳😳

A photo of a painting installed on a sculptural display surrounded by freshly planted greenery. The painting is of two coral trees in front of a bay.

A photo of a painting installed on a sculptural display surrounded by freshly planted greenery. The painting is of mountains blazing orang-y red in the sunset with a cool, blue lake before it.

A photo of a painting installed on a sculptural display. The painting is of mountains lit purple surrounded by all types of native shrubs and grasses, the sun golden on the horizon.

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:

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(Note on impressionism: that and the invention of paint tubes)

and the industrial revolution sparked the Arts & Crafts movement. Traditional arts are still here even with those big technology shifts - both of those eras of art highly lauded, collected, and taught about.

What an odd take - I hate this thing, but I want credit for being good at it by using a third-party tool to do the work for me. Also, as an art history nerd, to the person who commented about the invention of the camera - art / painting isn't dead because of it, in fact, it catalyzed impressionism,

Oooo oh no! Hope you heal up quickly!

I do on my page :)

Two paintings on an easel in the mid stages of completion with paintings hanging on the wall behind them.

Closeup of a painting in the middle stage of completion.

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.

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You always land on the perfect combo.

Balboa?

So glad you do!!

It's the truth! & I couldn't pick, I like passages of each / I'm still stuck in hypercritical mode with them hah

absolutely flawless colors, this is so so good

Thank you! & it's funny, I absolutely had a moment where I thought of you and was like - I need this woman to teach me her ways with mountains. So outside my wheel house.

Always interesting to see who likes what most, this was the project manager's fav too, now hangs on his wall.

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"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)

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A painting of mountains behind a lake with a sunset atmosphere that gives the hills a fiery glow and the clouds a golden hue.

"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!

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