Carnivorous plant sticker out now! 🪰 www.papermillcreative.com/product/carn...
Lori // Papermill Creative
@papermillcreative.bsky.social
Librarian-turned-artist creating art & gifts that celebrate the places we love. Based in Durham NC. www.papermillcreative.com/links
Painting carnivorous plants and listening to Dolly Parton this evening 💙🦋
Went out painting! I could have been a little less literal capturing how muddy the river is.
Art out here imitating life with my new design's color palette
This little study is my first painting of the year! I'm working on simplifying shapes and being a little less literal. #pleinair #watercolor
I painted some cute lil Durham ornaments that I'll have at the rest of my markets this year 💚
With the Durham Craft Market, I'm honoring those impacted by Hurricane Helene one year ago by raising money for ongoing rebuilding efforts in Western North Carolina. I've made a limited run of this watercolor painting I made of the mountains outside of Asheville ♥️ You can grab one from my website!
Bringing this painting to life 🌱 #watercolor #wippainting #workinprogress
Work in progress Wednesday 🌻 It is Wednesday, right?
I made a silly little sticker. Keep up the work and keep up the treats that make you feel like it's worth it ✨
First market of the year today at NCMA! I always feel so rusty after the holidays, like I forget how to put my booth up and also how to interact with people
Welp guess I'll be using my slightly damaged postcard inventory to write my reps! Seems like a good way to use up stock I can't sell... and I can't miss out on using a UNC Chapel Hill design to advocate for preserving NIH funding.
Update from the snowfall and my pine drawing. Both are coming along nicely!
I'm having a rare magical moment today, drawing pines and watching the snow fall ❄️
Every day I think "this is the day my studio will stop being a wreck." Anyway. Today was also not that day.
Hot damn, if there's not anything better than holding your new product for the first time. (Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)
What's a girl gotta do around here to be reincarnated as a little cat in a big papasan napping in a sunbeam
Yay, my Native Plants of NC stickers are back in stock! (another top notch job from @stickerninja.bsky.social 💜💜) And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.
I have had these files sitting around half-finished for a year. I finally buckled down this week to finish them and get them off to the printer!
I'm a big fan of this starter pack! It's making my feed so colorful and creative 💜
Daisy Lemon@daisylemonart.bsky.social · 2y agoI made a starter pack for illustrators and surface designers so we can find each other & connect! Let me know if you’d like to be added (or removed)! go.bsky.app/QNy4Z82
One screen for drawing, one screen for reference, one screen for entertainment (and in the darkness bind them?) #unexpectedtolkein
Still trying to find my community here! I'm looking for you if you are: 🐂 Durham, NC / Triangle-based 🎨 an artist or maker (esp. watercolor, gouache, & stationery) 🛍️ a local gift shop or bookstore 🌱 into native plants & birds 💡 a resource for creative businesses 🤓 into local history & architecture
Hello to everyone who's followed me over to Bluesky from Instagram! I'm excited (or is that actually trepidation?) about trying to run a Meta- and Amazon-free art business in 2025. I look forward to connecting with you on Bluesky, my newsletter, and always and forever most importantly, in person 💙
I did plein air painting for the first time today. It taught me some things I don't know about watercolor, like for example that I don't know anything about watercolor 🙃
