Oh, Isabella

I'll bring him down.

and just let me go

Finding.

Carry me, home

Like natures patient, sleepless eremite (part 3)

I'll pull you back

looking back (part 1)

looking back (part 2)

Perfect arms upon the air

oil on canvas

detail

Hung upon the time

oil on canvas

detail from 'natures patient, sleepless eremite (part 2)'

like natures patient, sleepless eremite (part 2)

"and watching

with eternal lids apart"

oil on canvas

sleep will find us, take us in or like natures sleepless, patient eremite

I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fire still remains (parts 1-5)

oil on canvas

painting vs. photography

I recently decided that it was time to make a photography blog. It seems a bit silly to keep putting photographs on a paintings blog, don't you think.

Please, check it out, and check it often! I'm sort of cheating on painting with photography these days, so it will be updated frequently.

"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that" Joseph Campbell

somewhere

"However modest our stories, we can derive greater insights from ourselves than from all the books of old" Alain de Botton

sometimes in spring I'm afraid green is the only color left.

finding space to breathe through all the noise.

all of the light

"You can attach the whole of moral philosophy to a commonplace private life just as well as to one of richer stuff" -Montaigne

self portrait with crane

I'm all torn up

houses

polaroids

I have not been painting quite as often lately because I have been taking a lot of photos of the spring (see my other blog http://linepainterj.blogspot.com/ to check some of the photos out), as well as fooling around with polaroids. Here are some photos of the polaroids, more to follow soon.

Italian nostalgia

I've been missing Italy in a terrible sort of way, so I've been doing watercolors of her and drifting off into them while I paint.

Emily Jay Painting website!

Please feel free to take a peek at my new "grown up artist" website. I've spent the past few weeks on it. You can view my "After the Goldrush" series, my "Seasons of Mist" series, as well as work I did on life in Italy, my batik, and art books.

Of course comments and suggestions are welcome! Thank you xoxox

http://emilyjaypainting.weebly.com/index.html

Etsy!

Hello loves! I have just started an Etsy account, please check it out and feel free to pass it along to your friends. I will be adding lots of new stuff soon!

my Etsy!

waking up and falling asleep

sketchbook

I've been enjoying making books lately.

remnants 4

remnants 3

remnants 2

remnants (graceful sleeper)

oil pastel and charcoal on board, 12" x 6"

past the lily and snow 7