🎀🎈💖THE BEGINNING💖🎈🎀

Hello lovelies!
With the chance of my new upcoming solo show with Curio Art Gallery in Portugal, which is themed around Alice in Wonderland, I'll be showing you a bit of my process of how I prepare the work I'll show, so that you can learn sth on the way, whether it is a few technique tricks or the madness of an artist 🤪😂💖

So, let's start with the bunny today...! I decided to start working on the messenger bunny as a first piece, and not the white rabbit, because of the colors! This was the ideal theme to warm me up! A solo show carries a lot of weight and responsibility, it really is hard to explain. I personally see it as a challenge to outdo myself, to go further than I have reached until then, always artistically speaking. On a solo show you work together with a gallery and it is an honor for an artist to be picked by a gallery, so like a parent that has invested in you and helped you, you want to make them proud of that choice and the faith they showed in you!! 🎀

The messenger bunny dressed on the gown of hearts, with warm pinks and reds all around, seemed like the perfect mood-fixer to begin with! Warm colors make you feel more vibrant and more optimistic in my opinion, and are more suitable for activity and 'let's do it' mood!

I started out with a first sketch (above). Eyes are not a problem for me, since I started sketching them at the age of 14, so...many years of practice 😜!!

But the bunny in my first sketch looked older, and more serious than I wanted. Big eyes make a figure look young, but the distance between eyes and the chin line is very important to achieve youth: the closer the eyes are to the chin, the younger the figure. It's the same with children if you observe! With a little tweaking on Photoshop, the sketch came to where I wanted, so that was done:

Many times I make a B&W shading sketch, but for this one I needed the color therapy asap, so I painted my initial sketch with gouache. The result is what you see in the first picture. I was quite happy with it (lucky me!) so this one is ready to go on the painting process now 💖🤗!!

We'll let this be for a while and on the next post we'll talk about fur, so if you're an animal lover, don't miss it ❤😉!

Mini Sketches - September 2017 series

September is my birthday month, so I prepared 20 mini sketches to be releasing every day at 3PM EST in my store, from September 11th until September 30th (that's my birthday!). These little sketches are especially dedicated to any low-fund collectors, who drool over all that amazing artwork that we all follow, but can't afford bigger and more expensive pieces. 

They can be found daily, along with anything new I make, at http://zelyss.bigcartel.com/

To stay super updated about my work, you can follow me here:  https://www.instagram.com/zelyss.art/   :)

ZELYSS BAGS: 'WEDNESDAY ADDAMS 2' CASE

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ZELYSS CAMEO: 'Lover's Eye' ZELYSS CAMEO: 'Lover's Eye'

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ZELYSS CAMEO: 'Wednesday Addams 2'

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ZELYSS ORIGINALS: 'Take me back (mini 11)'

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ZELYSS ORIGINALS: 'Crabby Meow (mini 10)'

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ZELYSS originals: 'My scars are pretty (mini 9)'

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ZELYSS originals: 'Princess (mini 8)'

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ZELYSS ORIGINALS: 'Bloom (mini 7)'

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ZELYSS originals: 'I carry stars (mini 6)'

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ZELYSS originals: 'Death Trap (mini 5)'

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'Sad Mariposa (mini 4)'

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'Dreaming (mini 3)'

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Mini 2: 'Blossom Bite'

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Mini 1 : 'Butterfly Catcher'

'Carousel Ride' by Zelyss

We all more or less end up abandoning our blogs (I've seen it in many other artists), cause life is so consuming and we end up realizing (and accepting) that there is no time for everything. 

I love it though. When I visit my blog to write a post, I feel like standing in front of a stream, with my thoughts flowing freely...

Short stop today again, I thought of showing you the unexpected route a painting can take. How we can start with one feeling and end up with another. This is my 'Carousel Ride', a very dear piece to me. From sketch to (almost) final. I'm not posting the final-final stage yet, but the 4th photo is pretty close to what it is. 

Our paintings grow, along with us....

Lollipop Rococo

This is my last painting, 'Lollipop Rococo' and I wanted to share it in bigger analysis with you.

She's the first actual Lowbrow piece that I've painted and it feels kind of awkward. But it certainly has the general feeling of my work on it. 

I hope you like it! 

Elephant lover's eye

This heart-shaped block of wood was laying around in the studio for far too long. I ended up into turning it into an 'Elephant lover's eye'... I'll take another photo of it hung up on a wall because I was in a rush this morning.

I'm thinking of keeping it but I'm a little worried that we'll start looking too much like a museum around here in the end... I 'd so like that! :)

'Guarding Angelica' by Zelyss

Angels are a good theme for Sundays I think... and Mondays. And so on... 
Detail of my painting 'Guarding Angelica', acrylics on board.