Elisha

About Elisha

Elisha Dasenbrock is an award winning, international watercolor artist. She paints with a limited palette on claybord. Dasenbrock graduated from the American Academy of Art in 2009 and has been painting professionally ever since.

That will be my posting style for the foreseeable future. Not because I don’t want to, but because I’m working on a very big project, literally and figuratively. You can read more about it on my Patreon site. I’m working on uploading a video there are well. Below is a WIP […]

Few And Far Between

October 4, 2015 in Art tagged abuse / activism / activist art / Art / Claybord / domestic abuse / domestic violence / domestic violence awareness / Elisha Dasenbrock / Limited Palette / Watercolor by Elisha

Here are most of the paintings I completed over July and August. I have a few left to edit. The paintings for sale are all $125 and can be collected through The Bowery Art Gallery. They have a few other paintings too, although they sell fast, so hurry. Christmas is coming. […]

Latest Watercolor Paintings

September 17, 2015 in Art tagged Art / artist / Claybord / Elisha Dasenbrock / paintings / Watercolor by Elisha

My birthday: “I have a massage at 1 so I can only stay a couple of hours. I’ll be back around 5 or 6 though.” “OOOOHHHHHHH a mmaaaaassssaaaaagggeeeeee,” he mocked. “You’re just running around.” .”Well, I’m 33 now, I think I can run around if I want. Besides, everyone […]

Birthday You Say? There’s No Freedom In Birthdays – Bad ...

September 16, 2015 in Bad Grandpa Comics tagged bad grandpa / bad grandpa comics / jerk / misogynist by Elisha

“E. is coming over tomorrow to help watch Grandma while you are at your doctor and I have things to do.” “MONEY HUNGRY BITCH!” Yeah, it’s kind of hard to hide the shock at the amount of vitriol that came out of his mouth out of nowhere. Much quieter, […]

Very Bad (Step) Grandpa

September 15, 2015 in Bad Grandpa Comics tagged ass / bad grandpa / comics / jerks / misogynist / old people behaving badly / stick figures by Elisha

This is the first commission I’ve agreed to in a couple of years. I was much more excited to do it than I thought I would be, especially since the sister piece was very challenging. Luckily, although much bigger, this one did not take me nearly as long to […]

Familial Bonds – Watercolor

September 14, 2015 in Art tagged Africa / African paintings / animal paintings / Animals / Art / artist / Claybord / elephant paintings / elephants / Painting / paintings / Watercolor / wildlife / wildlife painitng by Elisha

The condensed version. I found Harry sitting on a piece of concrete. Head in hands, “I knew it wouldn’t work, nothing ever works.” He was looking beaten and even though I knew better, my soft spot for old people kicked in. He had just been blaming me for the pump […]

How To Fix A Well?

September 13, 2015 in Bad Grandpa Comics tagged bad grandpa / bad grandpa comics / comic / misogynist / sexist / step-grandpa / stick figures by Elisha

He said, “You should take that to the zoo and sell it to them.” I replied, “Well, it’s already sold. That’s a really good idea though, maybe I’ll try that with the next couple. Do you think that one (one of the elephants I’m painting) should be darker up […]

Is This Real Life?

August 29, 2015 in Bad Grandpa Comics by Elisha

I spent much of August and July painting. I tried to do another 30 paintings in 30 days, but I think I managed 11. I’m planning on posting the paintings here, but you can scroll through my facebook page in the meantime. I’ve been taking care of my Grandma again […]

As The Art World Turns…

August 24, 2015 in Nomad Life by Elisha

I may have made this clear, but I have a love/hate relationship with being an artist. I love everything about it, except what I hate. I love the people. After art school, unless you are in the city I suppose, there are no pretentious hipsters. Everyone I’ve met from the […]

The Heartbreak

July 28, 2015 in Nomad Life tagged Art / art fear / fear / fear of art / inspire / inspiring / motivation / Painting / Watercolor by Elisha

I know, she isn’t actually asking where he is, but go with it. I have taken a couple more artventures, unfortunately, I haven’t had time to edit the photos. Equally as unfortunate, by “have time” I mean, I really hate editing photos so I avoid it. I’m still in the […]

Where far art thou, Gypsy Lady?

July 26, 2015 in Nomad Life by Elisha

Warning: This post contains several variations of the word ass. This week’s outing was not really what I had in mind. I never considered doing a movie for one of these, but since we are here… Let’s talk about Mad Max: Fury Road. Photo from GamesRader It takes a lot […]

Artventure

June 5, 2015 in Artventure tagged artventure / fury road / mad max / mad max fury road / movies by Elisha

Friends ‘Til The End

June 3, 2015 in Art tagged boy / boy and dog / dog / Painting / palette / Watercolor / watercolour by Elisha

I have decided for the sake of inspiration and over-all enjoyment of life, I will venture to a new place each week. I think I underestimated how involved travel blogging was. It has been a bit overwhelming for me so I’ve just avoided it. However, part of the joy of […]

Missouri Botanical Gardens

May 29, 2015 in Links / Nomad Life tagged adventure / flowers / gardens / missouri / spring / travel by Elisha

Rules

May 11, 2015 in Business by Elisha

January was amazing! Being an artist felt like I always thought it should. Then February hit and I decided to focus on the children’s book I’ve been trying to finish for 5 years. A book I love and completely support. But something about it just causes me to shut down. […]

Artist Block With A Book Review

May 10, 2015 in Art / Links tagged artist block / book review / carol marine / daily painting by Elisha

There is actually downside. I know, I couldn’t believe it either. No matter where I go I miss where I’ve been. I’m so happy to spend time with my family. I was so pleased to know I was going to see them and be able to have hilarious conversations and […]

The Downside To The Nomadic Life

April 6, 2015 in Nomad Life tagged Dogs / homesick / running / travel by Elisha

I think not. I left Apalach Saturday night. I didn’t want to leave, but circumstances said otherwise. Or so I thought. I took my last yoga class (until I go back) and then I headed over to the gallery to paint outside for the town’s art walk. I had a […]

Coincidence?

March 25, 2015 in Nomad Life tagged break down / fulltime rv / Good Sam / marianna florida / marion illinois / rv repair / travel by Elisha

I finally tried oysters on Sunday. I figure being in the oyster capital of the world, one should at least give it a shot. Of course, they were lightly baked with bacon, collard greens, and lemon juice. I also had some alligator empanadas. This was all at Up The Creek. […]

Florida Winter 2/19-2/20 2015

February 24, 2015 in Nomad Life tagged apalach / Apalachicola / apalachicola florida / RV by Elisha

Richard and Michael fixed my alternator! I even learned a thing or two. They wouldn’t take money and when I tried to take them out to lunch they ended up buying me lunch. They also gave me a ride to the Good Will and waited for me instead of just […]

Alternator, schmalternator

February 21, 2015 in Links / Nomad Life tagged alternator / full time rv / links / RV life / rv repair by Elisha

I met some really cool people today. It doesn’t hurt that they live full-time in an RV with 3 dogs and feel the same way about the normal rat race as I do. Essentially, they are what I wanted to be when I started out on this nomadic quest. Also, […]

Still Photoless

February 16, 2015 in Nomad Life tagged dog food allergy / Dogs / rv repair / snowmads by Elisha

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