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10/13/2026

Let’s shoot the breeze while we clean up from illusion # 91. While it's fun to produce showy illusion videos, I started missing the more down-to-earth behind the scenes videos like this, which I used to post more of in my earliest illusions.

It's fun being a fine artist and an illusionist. But it brings meaning to the experience when I can just post about whatever is going on that day - the everyday moments in life.

While we love chasing good views together, you and I, for the illusions, there are so many where we end up painting something ordinary like leaf litter on a forest floor. And we find the beauty in those through painting them.

In the same way, there's joy to be found in the everyday parts of life too. A caterpillar dancing around the palette. A paint smudge mishap. And even the clumsiness of tripping over a tree root.

That's why I'm a Realism painter. Imagination can be fun, but I take the most heart in the true, everyday moments.

Well, it's time to prepare for Illusion # 92. You ready to hit the road together?? 🚗

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

Illusion closeups and BTS pics from Illusion # 91. The journey there, the clean up, finding my way - all these things a...
10/08/2026

Illusion closeups and BTS pics from Illusion # 91. The journey there, the clean up, finding my way - all these things add character and memories to the experience.

For a long time I didn't really photograph or video capture much of that. It was kind of my little secret that half the fun was what happens before and after the illusion itself.

Recently, I decided I wanted to share a wider variety of the joys and realities behind the painting process, so this is me branching out a bit.

🌄⛰️ This is Honeoye Lake of the Finger Lakes. We have a one-of-a-kind view from above - the highest view I've ever painted.

To learn more about the original art and the symbolism and natural history behind the subject, visit my online gallery.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

10/06/2026

The illusion reveal, after a midnight-esque match. My patience is tried. My legs are wobbly from balancing on this ledge. I’m beyond ready to get to the finish line.

After the last paintbrush stroke, a wave of relief floods over me. I didn’t know whether we’d even get a halfway-decent illusion out of this one.

Faith pays off. We hung in there together, you and me, through the ups and downs, to paint one of the most spectacular autumn views I’ve ever laid eyes on, 2,000 feet above sea level.

Closeup photos and a BTS-after-the-match content to come.

Thank you for supporting through thick and thin.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

10/01/2026

The moments when the light returns, I swear it’s like Christmas morning. I treat it like a gift, one better than I could have expected.

And one that I want to fully appreciate while it’s here.

There’s so many things in life we take for granted, not realizing what we have til it’s gone.

I’m determined to make the most of every bit of sunlight we get for this match.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

09/29/2026

Troubleshooting 2,000+ feet above sea level, my highest elevation match to date. The lofty elevation, along with being on a ridgeline, and the micro-climate of the lake, cause the dramatic lighting conditions -- more dramatic than even I’m used to.

It’s a spooky, vision-imparing start to the illusion. Between takes, I stare up at dense gray clouds sweeping past the sun, heart pounding, urging them to clear the sky.

We’re looking out on an ancient landscape, hundreds of millions of years old, with this Finger Lake carved by glaciers during the Ice Age more than 10,000 years ago.

Longform vid has just been posted on YT.

Sharing more of the process here soon.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

09/24/2026

The realest video I’ve ever shared about what goes into choosing an illusion location.

Here, I’m a couple hours from home. So the stakes are higher -- I can’t just hop back in the car on a sunny day and come back:

I want THIS moment. Right here. Right now. WIth the leaves this exact point in autumn. By time I could come back, this view would be changed.

But to paint this view, I’m going to have to let go. Let go of expectations. Understand that anything can happen.

Embrace the possibility of creating an “imperfect” illusion painting, if the light doesn’t work in my favor.

This is what the Road to 100 is all about. Embracing that the bigger views, further travels, will likely thwart my perfectionism.

And this is why the Road to 100 will be some of my bravest matches to date.

Let’s see what happens.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

09/22/2026

Humbled on the way to illusion # 91: A snafu with my phone’s data taught me a couple things:

First, DOWNLOAD my maps before I go. This helps for woodsy areas with limited data as well as data limits. It’s important for safety, let alone getting to where you’re going.

Second, well… leave earlier in the day so there’s less rush and more time for misadventures haha.

All this being said, shortly after filming this, I found out that I was just in an area with limited data. A few turns down the road, and I was back online.

Part of why I took on the Road to 100 series is to grow as a person, fine artist, and traveler. So far, I’m already getting the experience I was looking for lol.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

🛣 Road to 100: This is painting # 91 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

Closeups of # 91: Letting go is when the painting comes together. After so many lighting changes, I had to accept that ...
09/10/2026

Closeups of # 91: Letting go is when the painting comes together. After so many lighting changes, I had to accept that it might not turn out the way I wanted…

And that's when the sun graced me with just enough light to finish the painting. ☀️

This is painting # 91 on the Road to # 100 - Woodline at Cazenovia Creek.

🖼 Visit my online gallery to learn about my process and bring home the original art from this match, archivally framed.

Thank you for your support. Hitting the road soon for # 92!

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

09/01/2026

The painting and I became a lifesized sundial, dodging the sun's shadows. I had to finish this match by painting quickly, anticipating its next move.

All these moving parts shape me. Moving parts shape the landscape too.

Cazenovia Creek, which we're just up the bank from here, has seen a lot of ups and downs due to human impact.

Here, we paint the understory of the canopy. These woods bolster the creek's health, helping it withstand forces like pollution, erosion, stormwater.

This is one of the main tributaries that feeds the Buffalo River, which drains into Lake Erie; by protecting Cazenovia Creek, we can help protect those other bodies of water too.

That's part of why it's undergone a series of restorations in the last 30 years.

🖼 More research regarding Cazenovia Creek is on my online gallery, and even more is included with the artwork, which has been archivally framed. Take a peek.

Thank you for watching and supporting. Take care.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

Road to 100: This is painting # 90 on our journey to our 100th illusion. Follow along!

08/27/2026

From the shots from my 2nd camera, you’re getting a glimpse at how the painting is out of perspective from where I stand painting it. I've never gotten to show you this during the illusion process - only after the illusion is done and I move the camera.

For me, painting a scene that doesn't line up from where I'm standing is a disconnected kind of feeling. Like there’s an ocean between the painting and the main camera.

I do feel a little “marooned” when I’m over at the painting, not quite knowing for sure if I’m painting it right til I walk back over to check the camera.

Am I used to this? Yes. Although I know it’s a little dysfunctional.

Should I add a monitor, so I can see what I’m painting in real time? I’ve considered it before.

But the idea of doing that doesn’t feel right - at least not at this point in time. I've gotten this far in my career by doing it the "dysfunctional" way.....might as well continue.

I have a feeling I learn more by it being a harder process anyway. It challenges my memory and visualization skills more.

❤️ Lisa Cornwell

Road to 100: This is painting # 90 on our journey to our 100th illusion. For the most part, we’ll be on the road, going to new views I’ve never painted before. Follow along!

© Lisa Cornwell Fine Art. All rights reserved. All my art, videos, photos, and media are protected by copyright law. Unauthorized use prohibited.

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