Erin Carmean's beautiful art

Erin Carmean (who is my daughter) makes these intricate felt tip pen drawings of flower/mandala like forms, that can be categorized in the "zen doodle" genre of contemporary art. She has been working in this style for about nineyears now, with the drawings evolving into more complex and elaborate pieces as time passes. The image with the circular red patterning is a detail of a larger piece and nicely shows the intricacy of her technique. The drawings are all done in felt tip pens, some of which are on metallic gold, copper and silver hues, which help give the drawings more radiance. The drawings effectively invoke the opulence that can be seen in the late 1800's artist Gustav Klimpt's patterning in his paintings.


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Harry Carmean paints Miriam Slater

Here are a few of  favorite paintings that Harry painted of me over the years. The top painting was done in the mid 1980's, the one below is of my mother and me, the third one is of Harry and me with our first born child, Erin done in 1990.