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Painting in yellow (and learning to use a light touch)

by Erin Hunter | Sep 18, 2022 | Paintings, Process, Works in Progress

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a painting of various California wildflowers, all in yellow. Apparently this has been seeping into other areas of my life, as I realize that I have multiple yellow dresses, yellow shoes, yellow Fiestaware bowls… a friend...

Working in stages

by Erin Hunter | Jul 15, 2022 | Paintings, Process, Sketches

When I have taught drawing and painting classes, one of the most revelatory things for people is that I don’t start a painting by drawing right on my good watercolor paper—not at first, anyway. I start with pencil sketches, which I typically do on tracing paper. I...

Mother bees

by Erin Hunter | May 8, 2022 | Paintings

In the two years I spent working on “Look Closer”, I thought a lot about mothering. Part of the reason it took me so long to complete the painting was my own mothering duties, when I had both my young children home full time during the pandemic and was still doing my...

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Painting in yellow (and learning to use a light touch)

Working in stages

Mother bees

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