Laura Dreyer

the civil wars

Laura Dreyer — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:57:22 +0000

Sketch of the Civil Wars playing in Ohio… they’re super good!

while they are still speaking…

Laura Dreyer — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:15:28 +0000

painting title:

WHILE THEY ARE STILL SPEAKING I WILL HEAR

media:

acrylic on canvas

18″ x 24″

inspiration:

here.

IF | “Entangled”

Laura Dreyer — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 06:08:19 +0000

For Illustration Friday, The word was “Entangled.” media: graphite
sometimes things just get a bit odd around the holidays…

New Painting in Etsy Shop

Laura Dreyer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:52:58 +0000

Illustration Friday | “Welcome”

Laura Dreyer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 02:54:41 +0000

For Illustration Friday, The word was “Welcome.”

inspiration from an Owl City song:

“we’ll fill the metro skies with country air and when you close your tired eyes I’ll meet you there”

- I’ll Meet You There

Illustration Friday “Wrapped”

Laura Dreyer — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:43:25 +0000

For Illustration Friday, the word was “Wrapped.”

media : pen and ink, paint, and photoshop.

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etsy shop.© 2009 Laura Dreyer

Illustration Friday | “Impatience”

Laura Dreyer — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:41:18 +0000

For Illustration Friday, the word was “Impatient.”

media : collage, pen and ink, paint, printed matter, and photoshop.

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etsy shop.

Metro Sketches | 1

Laura Dreyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:53:58 +0000

Illustration Friday | “Modify”

Laura Dreyer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:46:57 +0000

For Illustration Friday, The word was “Modify.”

The inspiration for this piece >>

“At one time we have directed it to the statuesque and
aristocratic type of beauty, mixing men’s vanity with their desires and encouraging the race to breed chiefly from the most arrogant and prodigal women. At another, we have selected an exaggeratedly feminine type, faint and languishing, so that folly and cowardice, and all the general falseness and littleness of mind which go with them, shall be at a premium.

At present we are on the opposite track. The age of jazz has succeeded the age of the waltz, and we now teach men to like women whose bodies are scarcely distinguishable from those of boys. Since this is a kind of beauty even more transitory than most, we thus aggravate the female’s chronic horror of growing old (with many excellent results) and render her less willing and less able to bear children…”

- C. S. Lewis, 1942 The Screwtape Letters

“When the eternal element in love becomes an object of derision, the temporal element alone is left.”

- Søren Kierkegaard

On a lighter note, I can see a little William Pene du Bois influence on the style…

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Laura Dreyer — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:48:09 +0000