The Art of Lauren

#workinprogress #portrait #commission #detail #nonordinary ✨

PMC #sterlingsilver pendant experiment also successful, hurrah! ✨ Am excited to feel ready now to make some #nonordinary jewellery, which will be available to any of you extraordinary beings out there who may care to wear some!✨ #watchthisspace #gnarlysilver #comingsoon

*There will only be 33 full-sized prints on canvas created in total, of each Non-ordinary Being...💗

As you can see, my #NonOrdinary silversmithing style is currently gnarly and organic, just how I like it.😊 Now I can plot and plan the next pieces, likely some spirit pendants or something equally mystical, hehe...✨

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Beautiful "Amber the Story-teller" #portraitcommission is now finished! 💟 NB Soon to emerge will be her gorgeous sister Lucy...✨ #watchthisspace

{ Day 7 • How It's Made } #March #meetthemaker #Instagram Part of my artistic practice involves #doodlesmudging ~ a playful name I came up with to describe a particular technique of smudging watercolour about and then doodling over the top any forms I begin to see emerging from the chaos of colour ✒ It's a lot like seeing shapes in clouds or faces in curtain folds; a fun way of freeing up creativity if I'm feeling a bit stuck or stagnant, on those days when my 'raw materials' are being coy and not bubbling up as readily... @doodlesmudge #doodlesmudge #watercolourplay #creativity #inkyfingers #theartoflauren

{ Day 6 • Raw Materials } #March #meetthemaker #Instagram I suppose my raw materials have to be the ideas and inspirations that bubble up inside ✨ They usually either pour forth and get explored in sketchbooks, painted straight on a canvas, #doodlesmudged in ink or filed away in my mind for later investigation... 🤓 #rawmaterials #art #illustration #inspiration #ideas

{ Day 4 • Tools } #March #meetthemaker With my trusty brushes, pens and nibs "no hay nada imposible"...✨ #toolsofthetrade #art #illustration #nevergiveup #followyourbliss

{ Day 3 • Workspace } #March #meetthemaker #Instagram I can mostly be found scribbling and doodling away at my desk or painting at my easel. I try to minimise clutter, but it's pretty futile as it wouldn't feel right without a collection of crystals to hand and Buddha watching over me! It also makes me happy to have some original artworks by a few of my favourite artists dotted about for inspiration... All in all, I ADORE my little creative space 💟 especially when the sun shines, casting crystal rainbows about the place, yay! ✨ #sloopstudios #theartoflauren #meetthemaker #happyplace #StIves #Cornwall #art #illustration

Limited edition, hand-embellished with gold, giclée prints stretched on canvas (unframed) of the larger Gaia Elementals paintings are available now for £350 each (postage costs extra). I will be waving goodbye to this first full-size Ishbel print very soon (No.1 of 33 limited editions, 91.5cm x 76cm) as she has found her forever home! ✨ It makes me so happy when these special beings make a connection with somebody's heart 💟 to be loved forevermore xx NB The slightly smaller Non-ordinary Beings (56cm x 46cm) are also available in this format as limited edition giclées on canvas for £275 each (postage costs extra) ✨

{ Day 2 • Favourite to Make } #March #meetthemaker #Instagram In truth, my favourite thing to make is often the drawing, painting or art piece I'm working on in any particular moment. It's like being engaged in a kind of creative dance, which can keep me hooked indefinitely, even on those days when I seemingly have two left feet! At the moment, my latest passion is bringing the 'Non-ordinary Beings' into ordinary reality (for example, "Audra the Rainmaker" above)... #watchthisspaceformorebeingstocome✨💟😍 #day2 #March #meetthemaker #theartoflauren #sloopstudios #nonordinarybeings #happyplace

{ Day 1 • YOU } #March #meetthemaker #Instagramchallenge Please meet 'moi', my name is Lauren Sebastian and I'm the bod behind @theartoflauren. I adore painting, drawing, doodle smudging and such like. I especially love the delightful sound of my ink pens as they scratch over rough paper... Ever since I was little, something about the magic and mystery of our world has captured my attention, hook, line and sinker. Now, my compulsion is attempting to convey (through my art) even just a fraction of the awe I feel when #walkinginbeauty through this incredible life! ✨💟😍 #theartoflauren #sloopstudios #StIves #Cornwall #magic #doodlesmudge #artist #illustrator #blisswhisperers #meetthemaker #challenge #day1 #walkinbeauty

St Ives doing its thing on my lunchbreak! 

Okeydokes, it's moment-of-truth-time... We have a bun in the oven, folks! xx 😍 #happyjig #lovechild ✨