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Purple Eggplants

Happy Autumn!!!!!

About Me

Wow...it's been AGES since I last completed a new painting! I just finished a new fairy portrait, entitled "Acorn Fairy." My little baby boy model has the most amazing big brown eyes and he embodies the autumn energy. Next, I will be working on two new portraits of two girls with sassy sprite attitude and big blue eyes! Stay tuned!!!I still believe in fairies and I continue to wish on falling stars. The whole concept of "karma" has begun to open my eyes to the Universal effect in my own life, and the many "interesting" turn-of-events I've witnessed recently. My inner-child is still within me and likes to express herself through art, imagination and harnessing the 'magic' of childhood. If you don't find me outside planting, mulching or pruning something, I am in my art studio painting into the night and listening to my favorite music....usually while sipping wine, or tea.LIKES: Trees, sushi, wine, nature, cold/crisp apples, humor, the smells of: lavender, vanilla and freshly ground coffee, my husband's scrambled eggs, honesty, soy lattes, full moons, my husband's crystal blue eyes, LAUGHTER, fishing, a new sheet of 400 lb-cold-press water color paper, watching my son sleeping, rainstorms late at night, watching my flowers and garden grow.DISLIKES: Liars, cigarette smoke, green peas, bad drivers, ham, shin splints, passive-aggressive people, migraines, litter, for that matter....changing the kitty litter, child abuse, tepid water, limp lettuce, phonies, telemarketers, spam e-mail, sand on my floor mats.That's me...circa 1978 with my same goofy smile:

My Interests

Playing in the dirt (a.k.a. gardening), creating fantasy and fairy art, writing and illustrating my first children's book (and ultimately, publishing), sculpting, making crystal/stone jewelry, building sand castles with my son, scrap booking and sleeping (when I can).


NOTE: ALL original images/paintings are exclusive professional, artistic and legal property of the artist and have been copyrighted by the artist, Erin Hogan. NO images can be copied, borrowed, or used without permission.

I'd like to meet:

...other fantasy/fairy/children's book illustrators/artists, writers/authors, motivated literary agents/publicists, dreamers and spiritual beings, frog and fairy fetish folks.

Music:

All my Buddha Lounge C.D.'s, Bjork, Mazzy Star, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Jonathan Goldman, Jai Uttal, Sigur Ros, Ben Leinbach, Moby, Dead Can Dance, The Gipsy Kings, Billie Hoiday, Louis Armstrong, A Man Called Adam, Miles Davis, Layne Redmond, Bessie Smith, AIR, Massive Attack, the Cure, Radio Head.....

Movies:

Pan's Labrynith, Lord of the Rings (all of them!), Willow, Camille Claudelle, The Lover, The Color Purple...among many others...

Television:

I need a HGTV patch for my gardening and home-improvement obsession...other than that...I am more of a nature/gardening girl.

Books:

The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Happy Birthday Oliver! by Pierre Le-Tan (I read each year on my birthday...since my 5th b-day!), The Garden of Abdul Gasazi by Chris Van Allsburg (I have an autographed copy from 20 years ago when I met him in-person at a book-signing), The Wonderful Life of a Fly Who Couldn't Fly by Bo Lozoff, Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch, In Every Moon There Is A Face by Charles Mathes/Arelene Graston, Good Faeries Bad Faeries by Brian Froud...addicted to buying and collecting beautifully written and illustrated children's books.

My Blog

Dont you hate it when...

...you forget to submit your artwork for a deadline and miss a wonderful opportunity?:( Yes, I was that person and forgot to submit some new work for the 2008 "Art Wanted.com" calendar contest/submis...
Posted by Purple Eggplants on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 09:44:00 PST

Fairy baby model search....

Hello and Happy Friday!As many of you know, I use either live models, or photos for my fairy inspiration for my new fairy baby/children gallery. I am currently working on a children's fairy calendar ...
Posted by Purple Eggplants on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:01:00 PST