"Spring Pick-Me-Up" by Elissa Rosenthal

Spring Pick-Me-Up

by Elissa Rosenthal

You are not alone 
in this merry meet spring 
fairy tale,
where you fear about failure
with new beginnings. 

You carry a life of work
and willingness 
to improve upon 
your misgivings and mistakes. 

Look at the flowers budding 
around your shoulders,
waiting to bloom 
in delight.

"Fluttering Wings" By Elissa Rosenthal

 Flutter Wings

By Elissa Rosenthal

Paint your way into my flutter wings,
and cup them to your heart. Wondering,
with chipping hope,
how
you could brush my dreams away
like a vain rabbit.
Milk into my ear
how your hopes
holed themselves into obscurity.

"Twisted Rainbow" By Elissa Rosenthal

Twisted Rainbow 

By Elissa Rosenthal

Your lips are a twisted rainbow
made of cotton candy floss 
and salty popcorn.
Soft clouds of syrup 
grace my tongue,
and fill me up 

like the glass jar
holding my heart. 
  
Limbs, vines, curling around my legs,
latching me to the sediment 
of our river of light fractals. 
Magnifying lenses examine me,
petting me with your light and shadow.

"Warm Chill" By Elissa Rosenthal

 Warm Chill

 By Elissa Rosenthal

The watching windows 
are like the eyes 

from above me.
Windows full of memories 

creating a warm chill 
to keep me up at night.

Hold me close douglas fir
as wind wallows through you,

as my tears 
water your roots.

"Biohazard" By Elissa Rosenthal

Biohazard

By Elissa Rosenthal

Syringes of toxins pierce the shriveled spiderwebs under my skin.
Mortal,
cherry red
nutrients is drawn out like a verbose speech.
The push and pull
of an uneven tug of war match
drags my body along the ground
which sandpapers me into nothingness.
My body is a nuclear reactor 
full of slow deaths 
of people I do not know.
I see needles as my eyes close for the last time,
wishing they were cat scratches 
from the one who truly knew me. 

The Horrible Haircut

The Horrible Haircut

By Elissa Rosenthal

Shinning steal assaulted my mane 

You went to beauty school,

or so you claim.

My flowing locks no longer flow,

but are stuck in awkward angles.

You should go.

These are not layers,

not even for a hedge.

For I envy the bush,

and its' perfect edge.

Do you have something wrong with your eyes?

Did you even try?

This is a haircut,

my money will not buy.

Chances

Chances

by Elissa Rosenthal

As the light in the stars glow bright,

our bright ones turn dim.

People of all colors,

now all look the same.

It does not matter your background.

We see the stars glimmer bright,

and forget that they are us.

For we are them in further form,

even though we are still a mess.

Organized chaos surrounds everything in this universe,

keeping the balance while creating chances.

Chances to expand and become more than,

who we are.

More than manufactured manikins.

Let Us Bee Together

Let Us Bee Together

By Elissa Rosenthal

 

Let us bee together.

Has horrible as that pun may be,

let us join together,

so others may see.

How there are people,

like you and I,

who do not call themselves straight or gay-

but bi.

I know they exist,

because so do I.

This sexuality is how I identify.

I am not greedy,

a slut,

or a hiding gay.

I am only built this way.

Please try to understand that I exist,

even if you are a pessimist.

I have heard the rumors,

the generalized tales,

on how every bi woman,

is a straight one who's kissed a female.

I have heard how, 

if you are bi,

that you are a lesbian,

who feels a need to lie. 

I am telling you,

right hear on this day,

I am neither straight or gay.

I am a bi woman,

today and any other day.

 

Happy Bi Visibility Day Everyone! I hope you are having a great day and weekend!

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Merry Meet

Merry Meet 

By Elissa Rosenthal

Come with me to tea today,

so we can merry meet.

Tell our thoughts and stories,

over what we eat.

Sing songs and silly tales,

over our quiet meal.

Let time of smiling friends,

be here for none to steal.

We not agree on all,

past-times and things.

However, we can agree,

to give this friendship wings.

The People's Mirror

 The People's Mirror 

By Elissa Rosenthal

Awing midnight surrounds my small being. 

Universal twinkles comfort my eyes.

Sluggish waters become all people's mirror;

including Luna sharing her glimmer. 

Peer into the All People's Mirror,

perhaps it will show your beauty as clear.

  

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Sweet Tea

Sweet Tea

by Elissa Rosenthal 

Lulling breezes glide against my puckered up flesh,

Leaning toward the cool embrace full of fresh,

Lillie's, old spring daffodils, morning tea pulled through mesh,

Let me keep this feeling of being blessed.

Looking out the window I do not feel alone,

Loving how this quite house now feels like a home,

Leave me and let me live with this feeling I have sewn,

Lifting up the piece of pottery I used to condone. 

Lips filled with sweet fragrance and relished calm,

Lucky me to have this time of peace within my palm,

Little figures brush against the porcelain consuming the warmth of the dawn,

Living like this I know with not last long.     

Spirit's of The Damned

Spirit's of The Damned 
By Elissa Rosenthal

Let me slumber among those who weep out of longing,

Cure those who wish those harm,

Keep my way clear of humming,

Catch those who keep alarm.

Make my way for those who weep,

Slumber and sleep keep coming,

Say your woes of marry meet,

Never think lightly of summoning.

You through me aside and wished me well,

Kept the sleep on cleaning,

Cleaning your lies and will to live,

Kept me harnessed to seeking.

Seek out my soul,

I do wish you well,

Never meet my cunning.

Slumber meet all,

I will not tell,

The lies will keep on coming.




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Shadow

Shadow

By Elissa Rosenthal

Lavender lilies spring from the spring,

Watching as the mermaids sing.

Screeching their songs of woe,

For the world.

Burning fumes of fog,

Wallow and whirl.

Drowning out the wishes of onlookers,

Seeing with blind eyes in shadow.

 

Love

Love

By Elissa Rosenthal

Stillness is lead by scared little whispers,

Wishing for the breath to hold their caring.

Carefully treading through the thoughts of love,

Life at their fingertips still unknowing.

Unimportance claims the thoughts of the weak, 

Crystallizing their fears of being one.

Old thoughts of harsh reality floods mind,

Keep the whispers safe and keep whispers kind.

Love of ones' self creates love is ones' mind.

Emotions

Emotions

By: Elissa Rosenthal

Fiery fills all I know and all I am.

Harsh words fill my mind with deep night regrets.

Feel my passion, 

hate, 

and fear,

 through my words.

Feel my passion 

want,

and fear,

through my actions.

I scream among the stars as my eyes close in fitful slumber.

I weep in my dreams,

remembering the harsh memories of the day.

Two minds,

two different expressions of emotion.

I tell you I hate you for the same reasons I hate myself.

I give the actions I wish someone would do for me.

Read between the lines.

Think through the actions,

and the speech.

We are human.

Emotions were taught to be in the background,

silenced,

twisted,

stretched.

Do not weep but yell.

Do not yell but weep.

Childhood emotional training nonexistent.

Why do people not see?

I yell because that was the only way they would listen.

I cry because then they would hear.

Simple explanations never taught.

Understanding never understood. 

Feel my passion,

hate, 

and fear,

through my words.

I beg.

Feel my passion,

want,

and fear,

through my actions.

I pray.

Mandalas and Watercolor

By Elissa Rosenthal

Hello, Everyone! For this week in my artistic journey I went back to two types of art: pen and pen with watercolor. In the past I have dabbled with these supplies, but I did not stick with them nearly long enough to make great progress. I find great enjoyment in using these supplies, so it surprised me how long I have stayed away from them.

If you have been following me on Instagram, you have seen this image before. It is currently my highest liked image on Instagram with sixty-six likes.

I have found out from this, that there are quite a few people on Instagram who are fans of mandalas, like myself. Plus, there are some people on there who are excellent at creating mandalas. One of these people goes under the name "tak_mist". I follow them, and they make spectacular mandalas! tak_mist has inspired me to work more on my detailing and proportions with my mandalas.

As far as pen with watercolor, this is the watercolor painting I shared on Instagram of a cherry blossom tree. The original photo I took, which I used as reference, was a white cherry blossom tree, but I wanted to use the color pink in this particular painting. I wanted to have this one be a little more impressionistic, which I hope came across.

The previous image however, was not my first time going back to watercolor. I had done one painting before that one which is right here.

I know in this post I have mentioned Instagram quite a lot, but I do want you, my readers to get something out of these postings. So, even if I do post some stuff on Instagram that I do not mention here, it will go the same way for those on Instagram. This way there is a reason for you, my readers, to keep returning to these postings.

As far as my experience with watercolor, I quite enjoyed the experience and I want to work more with the medium. With watercolor it dries a lot quicker than other painting mediums and you can layer over old paint with little issue, as long as you let the previous layer dry completely. This is what I did as the last step for the watercolor painting of the girl shown above. After painting all of the background and detailing I let the whole piece dry completely and went over the whole thing with a light blue wash. My decision to do so was based on me wanting to convey as clearly as possible that she was underwater.

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Fun With Acrylics: Needed Some Rainbows

By Elissa Rosenthal

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Little life update and PSA is in the next paragraph. If you wish to skip, please go to the paragraph after the next, thank you.

This week in my artistic journey I have been having a bit of motivational issues, which is why this post is coming out so late in the day, and for that I am deeply sorry. It has not so much been not wanting to create, as the fear to create. I have generalized anxiety, and I did one thing which put me on edge, I read an article about how this one gal had her artwork copied by a copy-cat "artist" in Mexico. Link to article HERE .This, plus reading all the comments about how other artists have had similar issues started to bring up my anxiety a bit. Though now I have started to calm down, possibly due to the act of creating, as well as the knowledge that I should not let my fear control me. I know I could legally copy-right everything I have ever created, but as a college student I do not have the funds to do that, nor do I believe my stuff is currently good enough to steal. I may in the future, but not right now. However, this does not mean I would take theft lightly. As a way of calming down my anxiety I have decided to let all of you, my readers, know that everything I post on here, as far as art, is my original artwork. As for the posts I did before I started to share my art, I gave proper credit, as far as I understand, to all creators. I encourage you all to do the same. If you share a piece of art you enjoy, give the artist credit, maybe even give a link to where you found the image. As for my artwork, you may share it if you wish as long as you give proper credit to me. I do not give anyone permission, however, to make money off of my artwork. I ask you all to please be courteous of my rights as the original artwork creator, and thank you for reading my little life update.

This is the artwork I decided to create today as my anxiety was acting up a bit. So please, excuse me for it not being the best. In hindsight I probably should have made the sky a bit lighter. I may try in the future to correct that error, as I have no more time to do that today as the day is coming to a close and I need to post before the day is up.

The time was not wasted though, I found out some little tricks when it comes to acrylic paints. One is to do the farthest back layer first. In this artwork that was the sky. You do this first, because one of the few luxuries of acrylic paint is it will dry quite quickly, meaning you can paint over the layer you put down previously. This brings me to the second trick I found out, which is layering. Each part of this painting I went over at least three times, to make sure it was opaque, since this was the look I was going for. If you are finding your paint is looking more transparent than you want it to be, try letting it dry a little and put another layer of the same paint on top of the previous layer. This trick on its own is the main reason why this painting has so far taken me a little over seven hours to plan and paint.

I hope all of you are doing well today! Creating is a great way to settle the nerves!

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Oil Paint Drying and Trying Acrylics Again

By Elissa Rosenthal

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For this week in my artistic journey, I decided to let my oil painting dry a bit more, since some parts I need to fix are still quite wet. Most of the painting is becoming dry however, so I should be able to work on it by next week. To help quicken the drying time I have put the painting in a spare room where I have placed a temperature controlled heater to warm the room up and create some air flow.

As for works I have done this week, I decided to try painting with acrylics again for the fun of it. For this painting I could say it is supposed to have some sort of deeper meaning behind it, how it captures how liberal youth feel tided down, or something of the like. But in truth, this painting was just a bit of fun for me. Put a few abstract heads here, a few lines there, and done.

I enjoy creating art for fun sometimes, not knowing where the painting or drawing is going to go. Every piece of art you create does not have to have some kind of deeper meaning to it. I mean, if someone else puts meaning to this painting, and for some reason they are moved by that meaning, then great! But as a creator of art, I have no obligation to anyone to need a deeper meaning for each creation.

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First Oil Painting Using Walnut Oil

By Elissa Rosenthal

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Well, in all honesty, this week has been a bit of a trial because of being sick. When I mean sick, I mean hardly-got-any-sleep-because-of-coughing-fits sick. Thank you though, to those who showed support. I am starting to feel a little bit better. *knocks on wood*

For this week I decided to try out my walnut oil that arrived in a new oil painting. I figured a good place to start would be to try doing a landscape painting. For this one I have been pulling from several references to create this scene.

I have not painted that much in comparison to other forms of media, so I think it is starting to turn out well for my skill level. This image you see above is my first layer of this painting. I decided to let it dry a little and come back to even out the skyline and add some more detailing to the water.

For the water I mixed some Rembrandt: Cobalt Blue Light and Rembrandt: Phthalo Green Yellow. Plus, I took some of my Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Color: Burnt Sienna and my Winsor & Newton Artists' Oil Color: Titanium White to even out the rock formations in the distance.

For now, I am deciding to leave the painting as is until it dries. Then I can go over it with more paint. I want to play up the colors a bit more, particularly in the water and the closer rock formations. The walnut oil sees so far to be a very slow drying medium, so I will see how long it takes for the painting to dry at this stage in my climate. I live in Seattle, so that should give you some idea of what the temperature and humidity is like here.

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Chipped Painting and Dragon Wood Burning

By Elissa Rosenthal

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For this week in my art journey, something unfortunate happened. If you have been reading this blog you know I have been waiting for the first stage of my oil painting to dry. Well, it did finally get dry, however, one of the people I live with ended up "bumping" into it. So now all the paint layers are breaking off in chips and the whole painting is now done for. This as well happened to be the day I finally received my walnut oil.

The image on the left is from the center of the painting, the one on the right is from the side.

Now, not to be too discouraged because of this mishap, I decided to try out some wood burning. I have had this wood burning kit around for the past few years, and have done nothing with it until now, so I figured I would give it a go. I did one wood burning quite a few years ago and it did not turn out too bad, which is why I originally bought the kit. 

This kit however, I would not ,so far, recommend. It is a good wood burner for the amount of money I paid for it, but it is by no means the best. The temperature has some consistency problems, the cord is short enough between the wood burner handle and the dial for the temperature to where it is easily turned by accident, and the tip kept on trying to unscrew it'self from the handle, making it where I had to get pliers to re-screw the hot tip several times.

Mind you I do not have much experience with wood burning, so these may be normal issues, but I do remember the last wood burner I used at my High School being a lot easier to use. Though, that wood burner was a much higher quality one, and obviously more expensive. 

This wood burning took me around seven hours to complete. The wood burner I used is called the Creative Versa-Tool by Walnut Hollow. Though, remember I did get this wood burner quite a few years ago. So for all I know the issues I am facing have to do with the age of the device or it not being used for years. 

To create the head and body I used several circles of differing sizes, a picture of which is available on my new Instagram account, under the name theelissapost . I originally thought of having the dragon reading, but the size between the book and the flowers seemed too off for me. So, instead I decided on a dandelion seed. The scales I did with the side of the wood burning tip. During the whole wood burning I used the standard tip in the wood burning kit.  

While wood burning I recommend having a fan going, and taking breaks. As of right now my throat is scratchy and my allergies have been acting up from the smoke created from wood burning for hours yesterday. Take care of your body while creating art. I will only do wood burning now with a fan and for stretches no longer than, perhaps, two hours.  

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