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saaggss · 9 days

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Elly Smallwood

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mvalentine · 1 year

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give me back my girlhood it was mine first.

sylvia plath // elly smallwood // kristin chang // jen mazza // taylor swift // sadie sink in all too well (10 minute version)

#taylor swift #would’ve could’ve should’ve #midnights #midnights 3am version #web weaving #parallels #poetry #quotes #sylvia plath #kristin chang #elly smallwood #jen mazza #sadie sink

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invisiblemonstrosity · 2 years

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TAINTED BLOOD, TAINTED SELF.

folie a deux - savannah brown / elly smallwood / supernatural 4x04 / edouard labrosse / pissing contest, or interrogation on behalf of a lover who is no longer mine - silas denver melvin / blud- rachel mckibbens / ceruse - jen mazza / birthright- george abraham / tracie macvean / cis people asking cis questions - silas denver melvin / blood - my chemical romance

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mirefireflies · 7 days

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“the end is neverending.”

the end is where we begin — thousand foot krutch / that’s not how the story goes — daniel handler and nick urata (a series of unfortunate events) / undertow, ouroboros, and dancing with a stranger — natalia schäfer / a valediction: forbidden mourning — john donne / the end — mark strand / endings (n/a) — elly smallwood / afternoon in february — henry wadsworth longfellow / every thing on it — shel silverstein / road to hell (reprise) — hadestown

#shall we make this post all over again #it’ll never be different #web weaving #circular narratives #it was always going to end this way #that’s just how the story goes #a series of unfortunate events #asoue #thousand foot krutch #ouroboros #natalia schäfer #john donne #mark strand #elly smallwood #henry wadsworth longfellow #shel silverstein #hadestown

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ancient-hoe · 2 years

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Art by Elly Smallwood.

#elly smallwood #women #wlw art #sapphic #fine art #painting #acrylic #wlw

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m-ultiverso · 2 months

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Elly Smallwood

#arte #mulher #elly smallwood

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c137rose · 1 year

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Bones and all - @c137.rose on IG

#smoking #timothee chalamet art #timothee chamalet #timothee chalamet #bones and all #acrylic #acryliquepainting #asian girl painting #painting #asian artists #elly smallwood #abstract #kinda sad #kinda depressing #emo aesthetic #sad aesthetic

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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years

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Elly Smallwood.

#elly smallwood

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oldplumhead · 1 year

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Elly Smallwood inspo

#elly smallwood #sketch #sketches #sketchbook #nfsw art #art #artwork #artists on tumblr #female artists #gouache #watercolor #traditional painting #traditional art

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yuuning · 3 months

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my reference was ellysmallwood | more of my works

#yuuning #painting #acrylic #acrylic painting #elly smallwood #women #body art #water art #oil painting #traditional art #traditional drawing #acrylic on canvas #oil on canvas #canvas art #women beauty #women body #divine feminine

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michaelamccann · 1 year

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Elly Smallwood

Elly Smallwood’s monumental paintings portray female bodies as seen through the artist’s confrontational gaze. Her large-scale portraits emotionally engage the viewer with visceral representations of her figures that leave little to the imagination. Smallwood’s interest in the corporeal form was inspired by the intimate figurative paintings of Lucian Freud, as well as the absurdly scaled sculptures of Ron Mueck. Smallwood uses stark colors and aggressive brushstrokes to paint bodies in semi-provocative moments rendered in smears of fleshy paint.

Elly Smallwood is a Toronto-based Canadian artist, famous for unique and intensively personal paintings that represent an exploration of her mind and the people that surround her. In her works, she tries to push the boundaries, leave the comfort zone, and in some way show the twisted version of herself, especially in regards to her body. Although her style is described as primarily figurative, she doesn’t let that to hold her back, so she creates whatever she feels at the moment. The focus of her works is mostly on the body itself, with the priority given to the face. There is a variety of themes such as sexuality, alienation, and intense emotion that emerge throughout her art, but in some cases, it is not strange to her to depict whatever fascinates her at the time.

She never has a carefully composed concept in front of her, but rather intuition and ideas that end up as remarkable pieces. There are no words to describe the process of making because this exploration goes through the language of paint. In her earlier works, the author used to begin with a photograph and a few sketches, which she then translated to canvases. Lately, she paints directly onto canvas, letting the spontaneity and roughness to overcome the surface.

The influence in the artist’s artworks comes from the world she lives in. She often depicts subjects like female sexuality, LGBTQ sex, and fetishes, as they are part of her life. Her art is the reflection of her fascination with the humanity and her environment that she tries to capture in her art. Bold and messy brush strokes, alongside strong, rough and multi-layered oil colors, are used to give physical form, and to explore the distortion of the face through movement in her portraits. The painter gives an advantage to larger pieces as they contain dominant power and have the aggressive look, which is more appealing to the audience. Of course, from time to time she makes smaller, intimate and very personal pieces.

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#painting #figurative #female figure #elly smallwood

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lights-on-the-ridge · 2 years

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