Featured Artist and Etsian
littlelolas
Littlelolas story:
"I have been surrounded by creativity and art all of my… but I only just started to be obsessed with crafting and creating in the past five years (since I married an artist). I opened my first Etsy shop's doors in August of 2007… I later moved to a new Etsy shop in October to focus more on just my art (with a few dolls and papier mache sculptures here and there.
For now Etsy is just a hobby that I, being a mother, cannot put all my time into; but I do put my whole heart into it. Every piece I create is made with LOVE and feeling! ;) Although someday I hope to show my paintings and sculptures in a brick and mortar gallery!
I am frequently inspired by the early 20th century masters, Abbott Handerson Thayer and John Singer Sargent, for example. I am also very inspired by movies and music: Penelope (the new movie) and Jane Austin movies, to name a couple. Classical music is really the most inspiring music to paint to.
I can find inspiration at any time, day or night, and sometimes at the most impossible and frustrating times. Nap time will FINALLY come a round and I will draw a blank. Or I will lie in bed trying to sleep but the wheels are turning and I can't shut my creative brain off.
As usual, I am in love with my latest works. "Lydia" is my newest watercolor painting (…not listed in the shop yet), I simply adore her, and I feel she is one of my best paintings yet. She was inspired by one of Jane Austen's characters from "Sense and Sensibility."
My art, I'm sure, has similarities to the work of other artists, since I am inspired by a great many of them; but I try to push all of that out of my head when I pick up my brushes. I do have a great love for illustrative art and realism, so I try to bring those two loves onto one canvas. "
Editor's Pick
Isn't she just a doll? (I mean, not literally, shes a drawing!) I fell in love with Littlelolas a few days before Valentine's Day. I think this was the first peice of work I saw in her shop, and she's been a favorite sense. Every day is Valentine's day in my book, thats why I can eat chocolate whenever I want :)
Visit Littelolas shop for more unique pieces of work and if you need your creative spirits lifted!
Be sure to also visit my Etsy shop simplyserra or my personal store cachvalleyboutique.com
