Is this all I get? fanstasy watercolors...

"So Many Stars Up in the Sky, Which One is Mine?" OSWOA / 4x6 inches

This mermaid asks, "Where's mine?" Yes, Mark knows I say the last one often, especially when it comes to home-cooked meals ;)

Listed on Ebay because they said they were having a listing sale but for some reason I'm being charged regular price - wtg! Bid here

First Daffodil Watercolor Wednesday by ArtByErika

"The First Daffodil" 4x6 inches watercolor and ink on paper

Painted for Daily Watercolor's Watercolor Wednesday, the theme was "signs of spring". Here is a child who is obviously a flower lover; she is greeting the first daffodil "Happy Birthday!"

I'm late too Lore!

Andromeda Watercolor Art By Erika

"After Sir Edward Poynter's Andromeda" OSWOA /4"x6" inches
Classic painter Sir Edward Poynter (1836-1919) painted a scene from a Greek mythology Andromeda who was chained to the rocks by Poseidon to punish her mother from bragging so much about the beauty of her a daughter.

I discovered that Poynter also did a few other pieces based on this and one of them was a beautiful sketch of Andromeda with wonderful anatomical definitions that many figurative artists love to depict (because their college teachers patted them on the head when they showed those lovely muscles he patiently taught them). As a result I was even more interested paying tribute to Poynter's Andromeda because I wanted to render mine in color but merging both his smoother very feminine colored version with his less feminine but muscle defined drawings

I did this piece as an entry for EBSQ Nude Show and for my watercolor group with "The Sea" as their theme for their Monthly Master Challenge.

My Turtledove

This is my entry for January's Nibblefest Art Contest. The theme was combine two animals or more. I wanted something happy to look at but I am not a surrealist which I sort of think this is, so i struggled a bit trying to determine how to execute it. And the result is a multi-layered watercolor which is kind of interesting to look at, eh?

Did somebody say crow?

Here is a commission piece that was requested after I had auctioned and sold an ACEO version. This is OSWOA® or 4x6 inches watercolor on paper. The original piece was my response to the sudden explosion of interest in crow and raven art on Ebay. I pondered many explanations since it was intriguing that it happened around the holidays late 2007. One of my speculations was maybe it was a religious symbol. I will probably never know, but i found myself painting a raven or crow whispering the sun's secret to this bronze Buddha.

Erika Nelson