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“in this place” by Heather Smith Jones @ Etsy.

I love this piece by Heather Smith Jones and since I was going to post it before I took my “little break”, here it is !

It is an original watercolor painting with pinholes on paper. Heather Smith Jones uses this “pinhole technique” a lot - you can see some here @ Etsy or on her Flickr in this album - but I really love it the most when she combines techniques.

She has an amazing sense of color which is not only obvious in her watercolors - she grinds and prepares them herself which tells me she has a sensual relationship with pigments and colors - but also in her acrylic, tempera and oil paintings. I absolutely love this one called “a cottonwood seed”.

And did I say that she only sells originals in her Etsy shop ?

She also has a blog.

So last week I got the most crazy idea that I would compile a list of 100 artists @ Etsy and I immediately set to work.

I wanted to write a few words about the “why” & “how” of the affair, but I realized nobody would actually care, so to keep things simple let’s just say that I have discovered many great and talented artists through Etsy, and it is getting more and more difficult each day to browse through their shops since there is no way to tag or organize your favorites into categories on the site and I figured a “memo” or “post-it” article would be of great use, not just for me or for people already familiar with Etsy, but also for people who would like to discover new artists but do not have the time to extensively browse the internet or Etsy for that matter….

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