Lush World
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This one is not from the same series as all the ones above. It is painted on a watercolor card instead of canvas board. Unfortunately it is both undated and untitled. No doubt about its NMS provenance though!
What follows are a couple of paintings in a square 6x6" format, the first on Gessoboard and the second on canvas panel. The second one, Indium Skies, is clearly part of the NMS “sketch-a-day” series since it is dated 31-Jan-2020, the same month the rest of the series were painted. I don’t know why she decided to make it in a square format. Possibly because it was a better fit for the composition she wanted.
I think that “Crystal Cluster” would be an apt title.
Well, that’s all of the NMS inspired paintings I’ve found so far. If I find more in the future, I will post them. For now I will leave you with a few whimsical space-themed works I’ve run across in the last few days. TravelEcho often said of herself that she had a cartoon brain. That comes across in these next pieces. I find them delightful. I hope you do, too.
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Ink marker
In a sketchbook (clearly!). The next two images also appeared in the same sketchbook a few pages along.
TravelEcho would make these back when we used to hang out a local cafe, chatting, doing art work and competing to see who could get the Jumble word puzzle done first. For the record, she won…a lot.
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I think this one was made about 2011. You’ll notice down at the bottom there is a little “eOe” logo. This was an informal studio we formed about that time to publish our creative works. We had a web site for a while with a few things on it, including links to an online graphic novel she was creating at the time (Aedre’s Firefly) and an iPad app that I made called Spiralocity.
I dug around and found the header logo for the site (created by TE):
Alas, the graphical novel is no longer accessible online and Spiralocity has long since been removed from the app store. If you are truly curious about the latter, there is still a promo video on YouTube: