tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342356332011-11-27T19:12:44.865-05:00Elise Gres : Heirloom Art . . . . . . . .In Which the Artist Shares Some of Her Art and Thoughts on the Artistic Process...Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.comBlogger311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-45326067067461869812009-04-24T13:08:00.005-04:002009-04-24T17:01:44.648-04:00WOW! Wedding news... Congratulations and best wishes to JoAnna Garcia on her wedding to Trace Ayala, Justin Timberlake's best friend and business partner!!!I painted JoAnna's portrait, as well as portraits of her brother Michael and his wife, Anna Hirsch Garcia, back in 2006. Above is the South Tampa Magazine article, which featured my portrait, and to the left is the actual portrait itself, Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-69893750759335622392009-04-24T12:32:00.001-04:002009-04-24T16:57:55.958-04:00Looking Back:My website at www.elisegres.com briefly had this front page...(Portraits shown are Manuel Versaggi and JoAnna Garcia.)And these are some photos that I sorted through... Before choosing this one as a bio photo and advertorial accompaniment... Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-56536780186022835252009-03-18T11:25:00.001-04:002009-04-24T16:56:27.872-04:00When Portraits are a Requirement......please consider spending $5,000 to $15,000 on me, rather than $50,000 to $100,000 on Daniel Greene!From: http://thestevies.com/CXONews/February2006FullText.html --PORTRAIT OF THE CXO AS A SUCCESSFUL MAN (OR WOMAN) Having your portrait painted is often a necessity for the CXO who has reached a certain level of success, and is perhaps a more popular Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-80077866351932296692009-02-27T13:27:00.003-05:002009-04-24T17:06:39.613-04:00Happy Birthday to Me!!!The smallest details change everything....Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-40707272602145058372008-11-14T14:42:00.001-05:002009-04-24T16:54:53.567-04:00Presenting the adorable Jacqueline Rickel... Eleven years old at the time of this painting, she still has the beauty and charm of a puppy.Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-35827143357995130992008-09-24T13:59:00.003-04:002009-04-24T16:54:32.318-04:00I never design logos, but I made an exception for my friend and dentist, Dr. Jeffrey Schroeder, whose South Tampa office is at 3733 W. Neptune (813-254-1007). I love his office, which is bursting at the seams with Key West flavor and brightly colored artwork and, of course, with the incredible friendliness and expertise of the Doctor and his assistants. So, when it came time to create the logo,Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-43034479378311608792008-07-15T12:32:00.001-04:002008-07-15T12:35:17.901-04:00My TV interview on Tampa's Ch. 10 news (CBS affiliate): Thanks David Leonard!Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-7108124838973136952008-06-26T15:02:00.000-04:002008-06-27T13:28:33.618-04:00My Favorite Portrait Yet....Here are some pictures... Please CLICK on a picture to see it in detail!!This is a pastel portrait of Al and Jeanne Hardin, in front of the "famous" photogenic sand dune in their Indian Shores backyard.I took a massive number of photos, trying to find the best lighting effects in combination with the best facial expressions and seating arrangements. I knew I had the Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-61392081436236443112008-05-14T18:45:00.001-04:002009-04-24T11:50:22.862-04:00A high school classmate and good friend, Jung Oh went to Harvard and ditched a corporate career to sing opera....http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/conservatory2007_02.htmlGo to February 17, 2007, Cleveland Institute of Music. You'll hear/see a violinist, a solo pianist, and then you'll hear the most exquisite voice -- Jung Oh -- about 40 minutes into the program. Oh is singing Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-62409929938850748312008-05-13T13:24:00.008-04:002008-07-01T11:37:32.260-04:00I should post pictures more frequently. Ok, ok, I know already. In this portrait of the Hager siblings, I was given the opportunity to really focus on the details of their faces, which are often my favorite part of any picture, both in viewing and creating...Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-84015364582827220152008-03-12T00:08:00.005-04:002008-07-01T11:56:47.133-04:00The Tale of the SandsStory and photo by sources unknown.A stream, from its source in the far off mountains, passing through every kind and description of countryside, at last reached the sands of the desert. Just as it has crossed every other barrier, the stream tried to cross this one, but it found that as fast as it ran into the sand, its waters disappeared. It was convinced, however, that itsElise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-10458772057329361122008-01-30T23:32:00.003-05:002008-07-01T10:53:33.670-04:00I'm back from speaking at the Duke Conference. I loved it.Below is a photo taken by Gary Wang - mentioned below - back in 1996. He and some friends painted over nearly the entire Duke bridge, wiping out everything except for a lone rose, which they incorporated into the "we were bored" phrase. He did not know me at the time -- and didn't know I'd painted that rose for my sorority, AOII!Favorite Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-73517750242714155802008-01-23T01:16:00.001-05:002008-01-23T01:16:32.129-05:00Sharing My PortfolioElise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-65739978312750319742008-01-23T00:43:00.008-05:002008-07-02T12:34:29.308-04:00...My career story is a love story. I just realized that.Art was my first love. I started out as a dreamy-eyed little girl who wanted nothing more than to read fairytales and draw pictures of princesses. The books changed to Jane Austin and the Bronte sisters, and the pictures became portraits and life-drawn sketches, but for the most part, that dreamy identity remained astonishingly intact all Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-67177132387338344082008-01-23T00:01:00.001-05:002008-07-01T12:58:04.396-04:00If you are a Penelope Trunk reader, you may have noticed that my name gets mentioned in one of her blogs. Check it out, here. I believe she refers to me because I emailed her the link to the New York Times article that she cites (The Falling Down Professions), but it may also have been because I'm a good example of why you should not go to graduate school before you are absolutely positive you Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-32271695132114811662008-01-11T14:20:00.004-05:002008-07-01T13:13:38.387-04:00I am reading Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr, and I just read a section that reminds me of the blog post I wrote back in October of 2006 on "drawing and painting"...This excerpt offers Doerr's take on the importance of true observation:In 1976, a doctoral student at the University of Nottingham in England demonstrated that randomizing letters in the middle of words had no effect on the Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-67105170725030130222007-12-03T17:59:00.004-05:002008-07-02T08:35:56.501-04:00Duke University has chosen me to speak at their Fannie Mitchell Career Conference in late January! I'll tell the weird story of my convoluted career path and answer questions from students/profs/alum, and I may even get to reunite with some friends who live nearby...The song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside," is in my head right now. My Christmas spirit is overflowing, and that is very handy, since I Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-79588413622322869802007-09-11T02:09:00.002-04:002008-07-01T17:05:52.953-04:00I was in the Tampa Tribune! Well, it's taken me a week to find a spare moment to mention it, but, yes, I was on the cover page of the business section plus most of page 3! The photos that accompany the tangible paper version aren't accessible online, but you'll get the gist of it:http://www.tbo.com/news/money/MGB681S246F.htmlThanks to Dave Simanoff, a.k.a. Hero of Journalism, a.k.a. The Daily Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-9505263127500133772007-08-11T00:57:00.001-04:002008-07-01T13:25:09.295-04:00It occurs to me that, in the course of blogging, I have compared:(1) God to an artist, and(2) artists to magicians, superheroes, and Tom Hanks.I am either full of myself, or I just like to use my art as a metaphor to understand the inexplicable. Or both.But there are greater questions at issue here.I.e., does this mean that Tom Hanks is God?Just a thought.Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-42391085421153729122007-08-10T23:54:00.002-04:002008-07-01T17:04:32.819-04:00Going to that Penelope Trunk book-signing at Inkwood Books was a good move. It turns out that Tampa Tribune writer Dave Simanoff attended the signing as well, and he heard me comment. He called me this week and asked if he could come to my studio and interview me for a story. It's mainly because I used to be an attorney.See now, I knew going to law school would be good for something at some pointElise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-8210658384310458712007-06-19T13:36:00.004-04:002008-07-01T13:37:21.845-04:00I Met Penelope Trunk!!! And she is the friendliest, most approachable person.Look her up here: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/I stumbled upon her blog about two weeks ago, and have been e-mailing excerpts from her articles to many of my friends and family ever since. Then, Monday, my friend Jenn pointed out that Penelope was visiting Tampa within a few hours for a book signing. Of course I had to Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-76574567714325737672007-06-17T15:22:00.002-04:002008-07-02T09:37:10.409-04:00Blue Man Group is brilliant conceptual art. It covers sooo many ideas, and with such an entertaining delivery. People obsess over race, over black, white, yellow, etc, so let's make these people blue. No such thing as blue people? Fine, they can be aliens, or whatever you like, so long as you have no preconceived ideas of what it means to be blue.... So thought-provoking... What is art? What Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-41642888187638576172007-06-05T14:42:00.006-04:002008-07-02T12:11:08.768-04:00New Wonderful TV Interview - Channel 10 (CBS) this time! Reporter David Leonard interviewed me. David is a one-man-band, performing the roles of camera-man, lighting manager, director, story-writer, etc, all at once, and I was seriously impressed by his professionalism! The video and story came out yesterday, so here's the link, and you can see for yourself:http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1173466092121092962007-03-09T11:29:00.006-05:002009-04-24T14:30:01.312-04:00Magic! Abracadabra! Presto-chango! More on that topic in a minute, but first a few updates:On the news front, I am excited to have met Jackie Silver, who has a fascinating website about the secrets of "Aging Backwards"; one look at her testifies to her expertise: http://www.agingbackwards.com/. She has a recurring spot on NBC's Tampa morning show, Daytime, and she is talking to their producer Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1164750299977926082006-11-28T16:38:00.003-05:002008-07-02T18:36:39.846-04:00How Picasso explained the afterlife to me:Note: I have searched everywhere for the painting that I describe below, which was part of a traveling collection. I can't find it anywhere on the web. Maybe I have the name wrong, or maybe it's not catalogued. Picasso created over 22,000 works, including sketches, so I know it's out there somewhere. The Picasso pieces you see accompanying this post Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1164746930058678322006-11-28T15:41:00.002-05:002008-07-02T18:22:02.343-04:00Here's the link to my Channel 8 video (since I can't post it on this site): www.elisegres.com/bio/index.htmlIt's on the right, in the column beneath the photo...The reference to Duke law is incorrect: I went to Duke University for undergrad and then to University of Florida for my law degree. And I talk reeeaaaaallllly slowly in the clip: but hey, I used to stutter as a kid! We're lucky I can Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1162926758797398132006-11-07T13:57:00.000-05:002007-06-19T15:39:03.057-04:00My interview with Gayle Guyardo aired on news channel 8 on Thursday, November 2, 2006, and I completely missed it! Fortunately, I am obtaining a copy from the station: I'll post the video as soon as I have the opportunity. What else? I still want to do the morning show with Ginger Gadsden, but think it would be best to wait several months and be able to display new artworks. I hope she'll still Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1161042484981772892006-10-16T19:39:00.005-04:002008-07-02T09:38:35.914-04:00Drawing and painting are, in the beginning, all about seeing. Seeing exactly what's in front of you, and seeing what's just underneath the surface if you look a little longer. It's amazing how much more you appreciate the beauty of a thing when you really see it and make the effort to recreate it.It's oddly hard to see what's right in front of us, because from infancy we have grown up creating Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1161041556205520362006-10-16T18:12:00.001-04:002008-07-01T13:42:31.783-04:00Elise in Wonderland (2) The exciting developments continue.... News anchor Ginger Gadsden of Channel 10's "News This Morning" show is interested in having me do an interview. Writer Sean Lyons, of the lifestyle magazine "Everseen" in Punta Gorda, may be writing a story on me. And thanks to Alan Bridges, I met many wonderful people this weekend, including Amy Scherzer, the Tampa Tribune's Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1159979568159840132006-10-04T12:14:00.010-04:002009-04-24T14:23:53.061-04:00My Television Debut has occurred.Well, at least it's been taped, and should air in a couple of weeks. I couldn't have done it all without my grandmother and my architect mom, Leigh Wilson. Maybe other people would take a blase approach to making a television appearance---personally, I was a nervous wreck! I think I got three hours of sleep last night, then over-caffeinated myself with Starbucks.Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-1159814016830894792006-10-02T14:32:00.001-04:002008-07-01T17:46:23.358-04:00Elise in Wonderland (1)...My new article in the South Tampa Magazine comes out October 3rd, and I can't wait to drive over to the publisher's office and pick up my dozen copies.My professional website is receiving a much-needed makeover, safely in the excellent hands of Eric Holler's Holler Design.And on Wednesday morning, Gail Guyardo is bringing a TV crew from NBC's local channel 8 news to tapeElise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com0