Growing and Painting

Just wanted to share some of the art I've created over the years. Pretty much all of what I create is inspired by the natural world. I love working in watercolor, but I love pencil and pen and ink, too.

These are wonderful!

I love your style and use of color

Wow.wow.wow

Janet Reed wrote:Wow.wow.wow

Seconded!  Erin, please say you at least sell prints. (please, please, please)

Thank you, Judith, Janet, and Greg!

And Greg--I did have a shop on Etsy that I kind of let fall by the wayside. I'm not very good at promoting myself. I'm trying to find a better way to sell to the right audience--just haven't figured it out!!

A few more recent paintings I've done--the first two are inspired by my daughters--5 and 8. My oldest loves fishing, and my youngest loves to go exploring in the woods. And what I've been working on this week in the early mornings and late evenings...

Your art is beautiful! What about creating a book? Or a collection of poems or nursery rhymes to go with them?

Absolutely lovely when I have time I want o sit down and try drawings nh a sunflower I know but it’s a start

Excellent!, especially love the chickens and the farmer girl painting. You are very talented!!!

Erin these are so amazing and beautiful! I do hope you re-consder selling prints at some point. I'm no good at promoting myself either, and part of that is- if I enjoy doing a thing, it's not as enjoyable if I'm doing it toward an end of selling it. I'm willing to sell stuff I make, it's just that the pressure of producing to sell takes the fun out of it (my talents are NOT art, that's for damn sure!). But if I could reproduce thngs, like prints of artwork, then that would make selling less tedious. Anything I can do well, if I want to sell 10, I have to make 10 and suddenly it's a job, not a fun hobby, and by number 7 or 8 I'm wishing I'd never done it.
Maybe the right audience is here? Pretty sure you can sell stuff here in some way. I particularly love the foxes, as it's fascinating watching them in the wild, hunting mice under the snow.

Oh my, they are so talented

Absolutely beautiful

About selling art, I know a potter? who absolutely HATES commissions.  His preference is to do what he wants, following his impulse, usually born out of yesterday’s impulse…. Perhaps an exploration process he started a few years back, just following where it takes him.

He does whatever he wants, and puts his work on the shelves in his gallery. People come and buy whatever he makes. And he’s happy.

But if someone commissions him, “I want 12 place settings of ……  glazed these colors, there’s no joy left. There’s no creativity left and so if someone insists on commissioning him  he tells them , well you’re just gonna have to be patient. They have to wait YEARS.  And probably by now he absolutely refuses.

I used to weave and I made a ruana  and somebody bought it at a craft show and somebody else wanted me to make one for her in specific colors and I agreed to it.

that was the first and  last time I ever agreed to make a particular thing. I worried the whole time it wouldn’t be what she wanted, that it wouldn’t turn out, and again there was no creative joy left in the project. So I don’t do that anymore.  No pre orders.

I make soap and it is wonderful soap and I have people who will not use any soap but mine.  

my life has been kind of an uproar since 2017 and in order to supply the markets I established, starting in September, I need to start production for the northern hemisphere winter solstice market.  It’s been years since I made a batch layered to look like sandstone canyons, or a coast line.  It’s just a job, and if I didn’t need the soap myself , I might not even make it any more.

Possibly, when the uproar dies down (almost there!😊) I can rediscover the joy of creation in soap again.  I remember when I started making “art” soap, I would exclaim over the really remarkable bars, interrupting my children’s studies showing the exceptional bars to them (at least half) saying “Oh, look at THIS one!”  over and over….

Well, that was kind of a side track, a digression, I guess I wanted to say, “paint for the creative joy of it, but if you get too many, they are certainly selling quality😊.  Don’t be like me, and get stuck with a market that needs to be maintained and served.

Wow, those are so pretty. I especially like the chicken.

So pretty, I would be proud to have any of those hanging on my walls, especially the chickens.

You are very talented.