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🌳 Quick visit to Bath, mega cute details everywhere! #emilyblandstudio #paintspiration #eyeswideopen #bathcity (at Bath, Somerset) https://www.instagram.com/p/CWnBUYEIG6x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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In progress — reworking a previously abandoned painting ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ #emilyblandstudio #abstraction #abstractpainter #studiosid #abstractpainting #paintersgonnapaint (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqdZi7XqSR5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Colour inspo, shoutout to the laundry 🧺 #emilyblandstudio #abstraction #paintspiration https://www.instagram.com/p/CqNOc7VIHQ3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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✨✨✨✨ tlv❣️march 2023 🔹lots of sketches and vivid colours to translate to paintings 🔹thinking also about scale, I started sizing and priming some some smaller canvases before I left but am now feeling an urge to go bigger 🔹missing painting but glad to have my little box of pencil crayons with me #abstractpainter #sketchbook #emilyblandstudio (at Tel Aviv, Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CprS2SJIlme/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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🖍 beach day, collected some sketches to take back to the studio. sun and sea always a great source of inspiration for me. also just the warmth helps, i get very tense in the dark winter months in berlin- body always cold despite living in heattech undergarments, city covered by constant heavy cloud for 5 months, it takes its toll this trip will be a good reset and should help me with my current colour-related struggles with my oil paintings #emilyblandstudio #abstractsketchbook #abstraction #paintspiration #beachsketch (at Tel Aviv, Israel) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpcTQIxoF8N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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After much research and experimentation throughout most of last year, I’m now beginning to actually paint this new body of work. My aim is to depict a recurring thought that I’ve had since I was a child, of an object moving through space in an impossible nonsensical way. I expect a bit of a struggle with the first few paintings as I’m still re-learning how to work with oil paints. The difference with oil paint as a physical material compared to acrylic is not the issue- I’ve been working hard to re-learn this… different grounds, mediums, tools, rules, textures… the results are already totally worth the effort: beautiful shiny buttery oil paint, a complete joy to paint with. Day and night difference compared to acrylics, definitely prefer oils. The part that is still giving me trouble is colour placement, it’s like acrylic colours (with vivid neons and generally wider choice) are the language I’ve been using to describe my ideas for the last 8 years, and oil colour shades/options are just a different language that I’m not yet 100% comfortable with. At least I know I was once comfortable with it, since I started out an an oil painter originally… so I just have to paint so much with oils that it jogs my memory. Colour and colour placement play an integral role in my work, so it has to be just right. Definitely feeling that as a pressure! Only one thing for it though— practice! I’ll only understand it further and feel comfortable using this oil-colour-language if I push through and paint. The thinking phase is over, now it’s time for action. Rinse repeat, paint paint paint 👩‍🎨 #emilyblandstudio #emilybland #abstractpainter #paintersgonnapaint #oilpainting #studiosid (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2PHaoomTP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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2023 wip let’s go ✨✨✨✨✨ #abstractpainting #emilyblandstudio #studiosid (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CozauP6IVrM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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@baam.berlin is open!! Come by this weekend Fri — 18:00-22:00 Sat & Sun — 12:00-20:00 📍 Moosdorfstr. 7-9, 12435 #berlinaffordableartmarket #berlinartists #emilyblandstudio #kunstinberlin (at Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl69WZModZY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=