by Erin Hunter | Nov 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month, I took a road trip up through Oregon with my family. We stayed with my college roommates outside Sacramento, then wound our way up through Ashland, a town I hadn’t been to since attending the Shakespeare Festival as a freshman in college. From...
by Erin Hunter | May 5, 2024 | Process, Sketches, Works in Progress
Lately I’ve been drawing a lot. Normally I save my drawing time for Fridays, which is my art day (Monday through Thursday, I work as an illustration editor for the academic journal Annual Reviews, and the weekends are usually full of family-related activities). I...
by Erin Hunter | Feb 17, 2024 | Process
As a person who has worked from home for the past 17 years, I listen to a LOT of podcasts and audiobooks. I mostly listen when I’m working on things that are purely visual and don’t require the verbal part of my brain. Since that’s a good portion of my work as a...
by Erin Hunter | Oct 1, 2023 | Process, Sketches
Recently I was talking with my good friend and fellow artist-illustrator Erika Beyer on a Zoom call, as we shared works in progress with each other to get feedback and encouragement. She showed me a painting she’d been working on for a little while, a new piece in a...
by Erin Hunter | Aug 24, 2023 | Paintings, Process
For the past couple of weeks, as midsummer coastal fog has finally given way to warm late summer sunshine and warmth, I’ve noticed a lot more insect activity in my garden—painted lady butterflies, yellow-faced bumblebees, grasshoppers whose coral-pink wings flash when...
