Its been a long time since I posted – I just moved into a great new apartment with my family. I really needed to downsize. An entire house was way too much for me to keep up with – I mean really – I don’t want to spend my days cleaning an entire house instead of drawing!

My new place has this wonderful view of a rushing river. With all the rain I have been watching the water rise and become more active. My drawing desk and art easel now face that beautiful view and if I open the window just a tiny bit I can hear the water running downstream. It is perfect.

Now the move is almost complete and I can get back to the work I love … drawing, painting, and writing.

Keep your eyes out for my newest creations, they will be posted VERY soon!

Again, thanks so much for following my sketchblog.

Erin Whalen

Hello peoples… so happy to say the spring bug is hitting Rhode Island. It has been a long winter! 60 degress today – I saw people outside with their rakes enjoying the day. Not me, I took my sketchbook outside instead of yard tools 😉 ……..

Here is my newest mixed media. The joker representing the state of mind in America today. It seems like we are playing a game with our money in the government and soon it will be all play money. Who knows what is to come. What I do know is I am really enjoying this guy. I tried a new thing with this painting, I burnt some of the edges around the artwork underneath to create a dirty look. Let me know what you think!

Painting has been an amazing release for me. I forgot how theraputic it was! My son told me the other day (he is 20 years old) that the best memories he has of me from when he was little was coming home from school and seeing me sitting on the floor amongst all my paints and creating with music going. He told me he used to say in his head “That’s my Mom!” How cute is that?!?!

Here are my finished paintings you have seen me begin on this blog and I am going to upload another I started in my next post and continue with this line of paintings. I absolutely LOVE them!

I had a few people wanting the lady in the tub and I finally sold it to one of the bidders. I am sad to say good-bye to it but proud to see it go out into the world where it can make its own way and influence people. After all, we make art to pass on our expressions and feelings.

The words hurt girl is up on sale now at my etsy art store and there is so much more to come so keep an eye out!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!!

I have added a few more elements to my bathtub lady collage. Can you see the water in the tub? Cool huh? I filled up my polymer clay tub with some diamond glaze. It dries clear so it should look like water when its all done. Also, I added bubble stickers around her as well as clay bubbles making it have a few more dimensions. I also added some molding paste to create the bathtub bottom. In the end I plan to add some very cool embellishments but you’ll have to wait and see!

Well, with Thanksgiving vacation behind us we all face the same thing… BACK TO WORK! So I will be finishing up these new paintings I started but in the meantime I do have to pay the bills so its back to interior design and logos for me for a bit. Maybe some day I can get paid to just make art but the way things are looking with the economy and all… that’s not too likely. I am okay with that though. I don’t mind working to make my way in the world. I will update in a bit when I get I moment between my two jobs. (When I will find the time to write my next book I will never know)

Okay. I am trying something totally different. I am way out of my comfort zone now and that is supposed to be a good thing right? I am adding some dimension to my mixed media painting by bumping out some of the image with clay. Here are the two bump-outs I am working on now. I am not too sure how it will come out but thats what experimenting is all about right?

Here is the newest sketch for my next mixed media piece….. We will see how it all pans out by the end of this weekend.