tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-342356332024-03-13T07:08:29.470-04:00Elise in WonderlandBaby Gio's Adventures Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-45326067067461869812013-01-01T13:08:00.000-05:002013-04-25T23:39:58.799-04:00Happy update on a portrait client --
Congratulations to JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Nick Swisher on the soon-to-come arrival of their baby girl, due May 2013!!
I painted JoAnna's portrait, as well as portraits of her brother Michael and his wife, Anna Hirsch Garcia, back in 2006.
South Tampa Magazine featured my portrait in an article recognizing her fantastic work as Cheyenne on 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-35827143357995130992008-09-24T13:59:00.003-04:002013-05-23T13:32:21.708-04:00I designed a logo for the first time, 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 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-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-42391085421153729122007-08-10T23:54:00.002-04:002013-05-23T13:23:54.757-04:00It turns out that Tampa Tribune writer Dave Simanoff attended the "Brazen Careerist" book-signing at Inkwood Books as well, and he heard me speak. 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 point....
Oh how I hated law.
Back Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-8210658384310458712007-06-19T13:36:00.004-04:002013-05-23T13:27:10.542-04:00I Met Penelope Trunk! And she is the friendliest "antisocial" blogger-turned-book-author you'll ever meet.
Look her up here: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/
I stumbled upon her blog about two weeks ago. Then, Monday, my friend Jenn pointed out that Penelope was visiting Tampa within a few hours for a book signing.
A number of people have complained about the fact that Penelope, who has Elise Greshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11411653757524004590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34235633.post-76574567714325737672007-06-17T15:22:00.002-04:002013-05-23T13:29:47.370-04:00I know Blue Man Group has been around for years, but I just saw it again recently, and was reminded: this show 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 haveElise 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.com0