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Erin-Claire
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Australian author and illustrator, retelling and subverting fairy tales and folklore.

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Erin-Claire @erinclaire.bsky.social · Jan 15
Belated #PortfolioDay post ✨
I'm Erin-Claire, I'm an author and illustrator who retells, reimagines and subverts fairy tales and folklore through illustrations (digital and traditional )and stories.
A black and white ink illustration of a girl sitting in the window of a tower looking out. She is wearing casual leggings, socks and a loose top. She has immensely long hair, which is hung over a hook behind her on the tower wall to keep it out of her way. A girl sits in rags next to a pond. She is reaching out to a golden fish, whose light fills the pond. She looks calm and happy. Illustration is from Ye Xian: The Chinese Cinderella by Alyssa Curtayne (2023). A girl holds a golden slipper. She is wearing a dress of browns and golds that transforms into a coat of brilliant blue and teal feathers. Behind her is the stylised skeleton of a giant fish. Illustration is from Ye Xian: the Chinese Cinderella, by Alyssa Curtayne (2023). A girl stands in looking to the left of the screen, wearing a red hooded dress that billows in the wind. She is carrying a heart shaped bag full of flowers and wheeling a yellow bicycle. Behind her the giant silhouette of a wolf sits, looking in the same direction. The silhouette is full of stars.
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Happy International Women's Day!
A woman with long flowing hair and a green dress stands on a rock looking out to sea, a green dragon at her back. The dress has gold embroidery.
March 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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just, painting my current vibes, like one does 🐍
A medusa in gold jewelry with gold rattlesnakes for hair, clutching the stone head of a king and breaking it to pieces while making intense eye contact with the viewer.
March 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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QTP with powerful women
A woman wearing green with long blonde hair blown in the wind (a baobhan sith) is holding a bloodstained white shirt that she is in the middle of washing. Digital art.
February 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Interested in owning one of my original gouache paintings?

Here's a little reminder that a number of my originals from my solo show at Nucleus Portland are still available on their website! 💛

www.nucleusportland.com/collections/...
gouache painting of two mice in love sitting among blackberry bushes holding dandelions while bees buzz above them gouache painting of a squirrel reading a book with a cup of tea amid the branches of an oak tree gouache painting of a mouse dressed in an overcoat and holding a briefcase standing amid leaves as though preparing to go on a journey gouache painting of a mouse offering a fresh green salad to a rabbit on a cold winter's day
February 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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A painting for my love for Valentines Day, with Australian wattle birds ❤️
Watercolour illustration of two wattlebirds against a starry sky. The branches they are sitting on are silhouetted against the sky.
February 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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REMNANT opens March 1st at Ryan Graff Contemporary in San Francisco
February 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Put your hand up if you don't like giant cats and families of adventurers, with sparkles. That's right, you can't, you're too busy patting the giant cat.
A woman holding a map is riding a giant cat, which is crouched, looking towards the horizon. A child sits behind the woman with his arms around her, and an older man walks next to the cat, carrying a lantern. There are trees around them in varying shades of pink and purple. An angled picture to show the sparkling paint, particularly on the light coming from the older man's lantern. Another angled picture to show the sparkling paint.
February 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Qrp with your watery art 🌊
A woman with long flowing black hair, wearing patched and torn clothing, sits in front of some rocks and behind a large pool, in which a shining golden fish is swimming.
January 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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A little comic about desire paths.
Ok so… There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…
January 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Tending the codes. Watercolour and ink, 2025.
Photos show sparkly watercolour details 😍✨
A woman with short hair, wearing a long black dress, stands casually in front of three screens. The background is stylised with foliage and hints of colour. Angled photo taken to show sparling paint on the woman's shoes and dress. Angled photo taken to show sparkling paint on the screens and parts of the background.
January 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Something brand new from me today?

Cover art painted for W Ryan Kaufman's book "Gawain: A Year to Live" 🍃
An androgynous figure stands in partial shadow wearing white armour and holding a green axe that looks as if it is made of glass.
January 18, 2025 at 7:15 AM
erinclaire.bsky.social
Belated #PortfolioDay post ✨
I'm Erin-Claire, I'm an author and illustrator who retells, reimagines and subverts fairy tales and folklore through illustrations (digital and traditional )and stories.
A black and white ink illustration of a girl sitting in the window of a tower looking out. She is wearing casual leggings, socks and a loose top. She has immensely long hair, which is hung over a hook behind her on the tower wall to keep it out of her way. A girl sits in rags next to a pond. She is reaching out to a golden fish, whose light fills the pond. She looks calm and happy. Illustration is from Ye Xian: The Chinese Cinderella by Alyssa Curtayne (2023). A girl holds a golden slipper. She is wearing a dress of browns and golds that transforms into a coat of brilliant blue and teal feathers. Behind her is the stylised skeleton of a giant fish. Illustration is from Ye Xian: the Chinese Cinderella, by Alyssa Curtayne (2023). A girl stands in looking to the left of the screen, wearing a red hooded dress that billows in the wind. She is carrying a heart shaped bag full of flowers and wheeling a yellow bicycle. Behind her the giant silhouette of a wolf sits, looking in the same direction. The silhouette is full of stars.
January 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you 💚
A woman with long, flowing black hair, glasses and small feathers growing on her shoulders and upper arms is stitching a green shirt. Around her fly six black swans, wings outstretched.
January 15, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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A recent painting, photos to show the beautiful sparkly paint, and a new little adorable painting friend ✨
The figure of a woman with long, flowing white and grey hair towers over a town of tall old buildings. In front, a girl is reading a book on a bench lit by yellow lamplight. A close up of the woman from the main image, showing silver paint that sparkles in her hair, and on the moon and clouds in the background of the image. Another angle showing silver paint A black and white kitten is curled up asleep next to the half finished painting. Her head is on the board the painting is taped to.
January 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm Eileen, a London based Illustrator. I love to draw horror, gothic romance & fantasy 🦇🩸Looking for more book/comic cover work, film posters, games, vinyl art & other exciting projects from early Feb!

✉️ [email protected]
🩸 eileenkaihingkwan.co.uk
Illustration of a vampire gently holding and biting her victim who is wearing a beautiful white lace dress. They look like they’re dancing Illustration of Legacy of Kain official encyclopaedia book cover. Blue Raziel is in the centre standing inside Kain’s palm, with his sword and broken wings encircling him. A large portrait of Kain stands looming behind him. Beneath Raziel swirls the Lake of the Dead, underneath the vortex are giant tentacles of the Elder God. Book cover illustration of HOUSE OF THE BEAST by Michelle Wong. Two silhouette figures standing inside a giant eye of a beast, surrounded by a swirling and chaotic world Illustration of Princess Mononoke. The Forest Spirit God is standing in the centre of the forest, backlit by the sun with many tree spirits (kodama)surrounding him. The forest and roots frame the scene almost majestically. The atmosphere is ethereal and magical.
January 14, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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something sweet
November 9, 2024 at 1:30 AM
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Merry Christmas and Happy Winter Holidays to everyone.
May your days be warm and filled with the magic you believe in.
A boy in a winter landscape, wants to believe, is given a bell from Santa’s sleigh so the magic of Christmas may continue in his mind.
December 24, 2024 at 1:04 PM
erinclaire.bsky.social
Well that is strikingly terrifying! Wow!
December 12, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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The way this piece grabs me every time I see it...!
brucedraws.bsky.social Bruce Brenneise 🔜Relaxing with family @brucedraws.bsky.social · Dec 12
"The Lesser Evil", illustration for Orbit books and you guessed it, good old Geralt of Rivia. Less can be more: whether we're talking about the power of carefully chosen spot color or the impact that getting involved had on a Witcher's life.
December 12, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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Little Red.

I've spent some time getting back into traditional watercolours lately - it's been joyful to be painting on paper with brushes again, (although I miss the convenience of digital painting!)
A watercolour painting of a young woman in a windswept, short, hooded red cloak who is looking up and to the left. Her right hand is on a yellow bicycle, her left hand holds a bag of flowers. Behind her is the silhouette of a giant wolf, taller than her, shadowy and full of stars. The same image as previous, but a photo taken to show the glittering patterns on the cloak, painted in sparkling watercolours.
December 12, 2024 at 11:34 AM
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Red Sonya
14" x 11" watercolor pencil and chalk on toned paper
2024
Newly completed drawing from this past weeks trip to Dragonsteel Nexus convention.
December 11, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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noppera-bō #mononoke
December 7, 2024 at 10:36 PM
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Wow those colours! 😍
elbenherzart.bsky.social Christina Kraus @elbenherzart.bsky.social · Dec 9
Character painting for a project that unfortunately never got used in the end. 💙
December 10, 2024 at 11:05 AM
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I just found out the piece I did for Scientific American, Woman the Hunter, was juried into the Society of Illustrators 67 exhibit and book! I’m truly speechless. I only entered two pieces, both of which were from SciAm, I didn’t think I stood a chance to even be a part of the book
Illustration made for November 2023 issue of Scientific American for a piece called Woman the Hunter. The illustration is of a woman with one arm outstretched and the other holding a spear. Her hair flies behind her. The background is of cave-painting like buffalo, rhinos, antelope, and people hunting said animals. In the left hand corner is a SOI 67 Jury Selection badge
December 10, 2024 at 12:25 AM