Residence of Jules and Isa | 2023 — LESLEYDIDTHAT

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Residence of Jules and Isa

CHICAGO, IL | 2023

(MY INSTAGRAM)

A few oil pastel sketches from Bali 🌴🌀🛖
I love how easy and light it is to transport my set up, how fast they enable me to work, and how gestural the work becomes. Working on my impressionist style 😚

I painted my grandparents house when I stayed with them in Da Lat 🇻🇳🏠💞

Making this painting was very special to me. I’ve been going to visit and stay in this house since I was a baby, but on this trip I learned about its history.
My grand

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painted some wiggly waggly fun fingers at Nailtopia for my first out of country mural!!!

all my thanks to my badass cousin @_bluedaze who is the entire reason this was possible

leaving ugly walls a lot cuter than they were when we first

lesley update 🦋💫:
currently (and for the next few months) on the road!
I’m in Vietnam rn, reconnecting with my family that lives here and learning tiếng việt. I’m exploring the world AND myself through going to new places, soaking in t

one of my original 2023 paintings, Kaleidoscope Daisy, currently hangs in my room and soaks up the sun each morning 🌞

She is available for sale, including the custom frame 💋 (msg me with inquiries)

This is the last painting for sale from my debut

yesterday I got to do my first official portrait session for a dear friend and her sweet family 🥰
2 hours straight, acrylic on canvas, 2023
hoping to do more of these when I’m back in town!!

I almost forgot about my yearly Christkindlmarkt painted sign update!!! each year I get to paint signs for the winter wonderland CKM vendors. it’s been fun seeing my progress since 2019. (fun fact painting the signs in 2019 was my first ever fo

collage & sushi
12/11/23

thanks for joining me! Collage Lab is taking a break for the season as I will be voyaging out of town but we’ll be back next summer ✂️

I love it when jules sends me updates of my painting :)

gotta be one of my favorite pieces I created this year, & it brings me joy knowing it is appreciated and loved every day!!!

acrylic on canvas, painted April 2023

these are either 7 or 10 minute portraits of my sweetheart friends, while they’re drawing everyone else at portrait night <3
acrylic and oil pastel

Matchbox Studios Portrait Night, first edition

I’m learning a new medium!!! Going to install this mosaic on Broadway next summer !!! 🫡🤭

lesley did that mini gallery is up on the 13th floor of the jasper hotel 🪞feat. 5 of my original paintings and 1 collage

this floor is mine mine mine for the foreseeable future and I will be slowly rotating works through it as I finish them/sell t