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Lauren Elyse S.
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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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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#art #sandiego #paintings
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.
August 20, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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
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.
August 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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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)

#art #sandiego #laurenelyseart
August 15, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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"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
A painting of mountains behind a lake with a sunset atmosphere that gives the hills a fiery glow and the clouds a golden hue.
August 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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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!

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#sandiego
A landscape painting of two coral trees at sunset with seagulls and boats just beyond their branches, the Coronado Bridge and San Diego city in the distance.
August 14, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Okay, working on two paintings like this is crazy making. Slowly but surely though… (so, so much farther to go)

#wip #art #painting #laurenelyseart
Two paintings side by side on an easel with paintings hanging on a wall behind them.
August 13, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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All I want in life, summed up in one painting:

John Frederick Lewis, The Siesta, 1876

#arthistory #painting
August 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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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
Two paintings sitting on an easel with underdrawings sketched in. Other, finished paintings are hanging behind these two. Two paintings on an easel in the early stages of color block ins. Other finished paintings are hanging on the wall behind them.
August 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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These victorian door knockers have me completely under their odd little spell. This piece is a riff from this older idea, an inktober from way back.
Illustration of a hand reaching for a hand shaped door knocker.
July 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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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
A digital painting of a hand shaped door knocker with snow gathering in on the ledges of a paneled door.
July 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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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
A painting zoomed in on paintings on a wall with a lamp to the bottom left. Nearly everything in the work is cropped / obscured out of view, the paintings within the painting features hands and nature.
July 9, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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#portfolioday eh? Here are some of my personal favs.
Painting of a fountain with a lion head surrounded by cypress trees. Painting of a cove with water splashing onto the rocks and cliff. Painting of a moss and fern covered forest stream. Painting of fireflies dotted throughout an evening scene with trees.
July 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Back to a favorite place.

"Cove no. 5"
6x6" acrylic on claybord panel
2025

#painting #art #laurenelyseart #seascape
June 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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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
A painting in artist Lauren Elyse S's sketchbook of an architectural arch in Balboa Park, San Diego that opens onto a garden with large banana leaves filling the view to the left. A painting by artist Degas - Italian landscape seen through an arch, circa 1856. It features an architectural arch overlooking an Italian landscape of trees dotted with some building in the distance under a cool sky with peachy purple clouds.
June 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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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
May 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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

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A painting of a book in psychedelic colors.
May 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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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:

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"Sunset at the Cove"
6x6" acrylic on claybord panel
2023

#painting #laurenelyseart #art
A painting of a cliff jutting out into the ocean.
May 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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#drawing #artistsketchbook
April 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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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
A painting with two people in an apple orchard. In the front is an artist holding a sketchbook wearing sunglasses, a red vintage letterman sweater and teal pants, to the left is a man looking at an apple tree in brown corduroy pants and a striped flannel sweater. The sky is vivid with sunlight and blue.
April 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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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
April 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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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.

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"Book Review"
6x8" acrylic on claybord panel
2024

#art #painting #bookart
A painting of a street at a crosswalk with a knocked over chair and thrown book strewn by the curb.
March 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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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:

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"Over It"
6x6" Acrylic on claybord panel
2024

#art #painting
The word 'stop' painted erratically with a manhole cover. As it was seen painted on a street in my town.
March 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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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
March 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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& 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
A painting of hands writing on a gift tag. To the right, one arm rests on a box of something knit, as evidence by a strand of yarn across the front of the scene. The left side of the painting shows the writing hand, the scene is done in rich oranges, blues, greens, and purples.
March 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM