Ela Steel
Texas, USA

The strange and surreal creations of a Canadian artist living and working in Texas. You'll find new artwork, time lapse videos of paintings in progress, updates on shows, sales and possibly a life snippet or two.
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Best Friends For Never

best friendsNew painting.

Original is available for sale either through my Etsy shop or my personal shop.

Best Friends For Never

Approximately 7.25″ x 14.5″ (with border for framing)

Oil on primed artist paper.

Most people have probably had a relationship or two like this in their lives. They suck! Unless you’re the one with the crown. Then who cares?

So besides my typical unhappy girlies, I’ve also been working on some more stuff with bugs. A while ago I happened to acquire a huge book of vintage 1960’s wallpaper samples. Score!

I have a bunch of ideas for future projects, but at the moment.. the ladybugs have returned to eat my brains. They do that, these imported asian ladybugs. They’re brain eaters.

Check it out. They’re small, square, super cute and would look great framed with a large matte around them.

They’re also available in my etsy shop (images on the right)


New paintings

Two new paintings.   More of the sort coming swiftly.  Enjoy.

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Growth & Introspection (new painting)

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30″ x 24″
mixed media
more info…


New Work

A number of new small portraits are in the works.  Here is the first three:

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Also, the latest in the Morphology series:

twins


New Painting

Nouveau Riche

Nouveau Riche36″ x 24″Oil & collage on canvas
More details here.


Happy Holidays!

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Snail Girl - Time Lapse.

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Work in Progress

Here’s a preview of a painting I’m currently working on. It’s mixed media (oil, resin, collage) on canvas. The going has been slow but I’m having fun with her.  I hope to have her done by the end of the week so I can get started on the triptych I’ve been planning.

Work in Progress

This post is mainly an excuse to try out Flock in conjunction with my flickr and wordpress accounts.  It’s pretty interesting, and considering the amount of time I spend posting things like this around the web I think it’ll free me up for more painting.  I still haven’t fully configured it with the rest of my accounts but I’ll see how it goes.  It’s definitely a new way of thinking about a web browser.  It also makes a lot of sense in terms of the way things have been going the past few years online.

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