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erin miller arnold

March 31, 2008 in art, etsy | No comments

Train of Thought by Erin Miller Arnold @ Etsy.

I discovered Erin Miller Arnold - Naptime Studios - last week and I so love her art that as I was settling to write about her today, I also bought 2 small watercolors from her shop. I am only telling you because this is actually the first time I am buying art @ Etsy - I have been really really short of money these last months - but her watercolors are absolutely divine and so unexpensive that I just couldn’t resist.

I am now dreaming I could also afford this triptych which I particularly love from her. You see, I have never written that on this blog but I sometimes paint - my palette consists of much brighter colors - and I also do pieces that are separate independant paintings, but which could be parts of one larger piece. I like the idea of “details” in paintings - although this is not exactly the case here - like the stuff we usually see in art books called “detail”.

One thing I really like about the art of Erin Miller Arnold is her sense of texture. She started last year to experiment with encaustics, a medium which can give amazing results. I am not familiar with the process, but I read a couple of things about it when compiling my list of 100 artists @ Etsy since some of the artists use it, and it seemed a bit technical and complex…

As Erin Miller Arnold puts it on her blog :

So that was the first “true” encaustic I have done. I use beeswax all the time in my work but always alone, and more as a texture and resist method and also a tool to use for my text. So it was very different to be using pigmented wax and a blow torch!

Her new encaustic pieces can be found in her Etsy shop. Here’s a “detail” of one of them :

Preservation Places (detail).