Paintings / Apr 13 - 19

More stealthy creatures. These ones decided to try camouflage.

Bee *SOLD*

Ant

Lady Bugs

Butterfly *SOLD*

Centipede

Praying Mantis *SOLD*

Grasshopper *SOLD*

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$45.00 each.

Paintings / Apr 6 - 12

These guys are sneaky. Its hard to catch a glimpse of these stealth fish, because they are away as soon as you try to snap a pic. You never know when they are going to peek around a corner.

- Pipefish *SOLD*

- Lizard Fish *SOLD*

- Orange Roughy *SOLD*

- Bream *SOLD*

- Porcupine Fish *SOLD*

- Moonfish *SOLD*

- Archer Fish *SOLD*

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Playing Catch Up

Ooooooh I am so close to being all caught up again.

• I finished my "Popfly's".
• Last weeks fish paintings are done. Woo Hoo!
• This week I am on track, on schedule with my paintings.
• I will (hopefully) be able to sneak the last few finishing touches on the 14 aceo's I have from 3 weeks ago. They are drawings of feathers and I had an idea I just haven't been able to implement until now.

It's all coming together now. Of course if I wasn't such a perfectionist, my life would probably be a lot easier. I don't know why I put this pressure on myself to not only get the artwork done, but also to have them be "good". If I create something in a day that I don't like, then I feel compelled to create a whole new work (which makes 2 pieces in a day) that meets my standards. I just have it in my head that each piece needs to be showable.

I'm now looking into MyPublisher, to create coffee table books with my artwork. I think it would be really cool to have that.

Paintings / Mar 30 - Apr 5

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I am calling these Popfly's because of the contrasting colours in each painting. Bright contrasting colours are very "pop". ;]

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Trials and Tribulations

The last few weeks have been more challenge than art. I have been extremely busy with life, and finding the time to create every day has become difficult. Currently its about playing catch up, and I am a week behind in my artworks. Hopefully I will get all caught up this week because I have lots of cool, and creative ideas that I would like to get going on. I need to be focused though to begin those projects. I think I can, I think I can, I think I can.

I spoke to someone recently that had also tackled the painting a day project (they did graphite drawings), and their story ended after 160 days. An amazing accomplishment to be sure, but I hope I can avoid the same sense of tedium that struck this artist after 5 months.

Here I go into month number 4.

Aceo / Mar 23 - 29

More bird related drawings. I kind of like the feet. ;]

- Woodpecker Foot

- Goose Foot

- Sparrow Hawk Foot

- Pheasant *Sold*

- Curlew *Sold*

- Mandarin Duck

- Peacock

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$12.00 each.

Aceo / Mar 16 - 22

Yay for feathers! Some pretty simple drawings, but I often find the most simple compositions to be the most challenging. I am such a detail oriented person that I am always tempted to fill up that visual space. Leaveing a piece of paper blank is hard.

- Black Crow

- White Swan

- Flight

- Down One

- Down Two

- Down Three

- Down Four

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$12.00 each.

Paintings / Mar 9-15

Robot Heads are fun. That's all I have to say about that. ;].

From top to bottom ...

-Auntie Tenna. *SOLD*

-Chrome Dome *SOLD*

-Bucket Head. *SOLD*

-Tetsujin *SOLD*

-Sentinel *SOLD*

-Robby *SOLD*

-Radar Robo. *SOLD*

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Interview

I did an interview for this cool blog called "Artist Shout Outs".

Go and Check it out!
http://artshouts.blogspot.com/2009/03/artist-feature-erika-schulz.html

Aceo / Mar 2-8

More studies of flowers. These ones, like the others, are supposed to be like mini paintings. I drew them exactly like I would if I was to tackle a canvas. The composition and the backgrounds are totally indicative of my process in acrylic.

-Begonia

-Daliah

-Lily

-Columbine *SOLD*

-Honka Daliah

-Daisy

-Cone Flower *SOLD*

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$12.00 each.

Aceo / Feb 23 - Mar 1

More and more aceo's. I did these ones like I would my paintings. They are little thumbnails.

- Bleeding Hearts *SOLD*

- Lanterns *SOLD*

- Lilies *SOLD*

- Violets

- Prairie Mallow

- Magnolia

- Tradescantia

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$12.00 each.