Lori // Papermill Creative

I'm holding a small painting of bare winter trees reflected in still water

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'm holding a wood slice ornament painted with a green and pink design inspired by Scandinavian folk art. A floral pattern surrounds a white Durham water tower. Durham is written on a pink banner at the bottom.

I painted some cute lil Durham ornaments that I'll have at the rest of my markets this year 💚

I'm holding a watercolor painting I made of the Blue Ridge Mountains

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!

I saw the stars with very little light pollution this weekend for the first time in a long time, and my husband took this picture of the Big Dipper (and I think the northern lights too?)

A shameless dog poses behind the copy of Everything is Tuberculosis that he tore up

Everything was tuberculosis @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

"FINE I DID IT" is such a mood

Bringing this painting to life 🌱

#watercolor #wippainting #workinprogress

Just my printer running in the background! 😆

I'll use it while I've got it! 😆

No, for this I was using reference pictures I had taken

Haha, it's so zen though! 😆

Brick by brick!

#watercolor #artvideo #workinprogress #urbansketching

A half finished watercolor painting of yellow sunflowers and pink cosmos sits on a desk surrounded by art supplies.

Work in progress Wednesday 🌻 It is Wednesday, right?

That's my Bull City ♥️💙💛

This sticker says "feeling fancy" in script font on a periwinkle background, and is surrounded by fancy little treats like Milano cookies, Ferraro rocher chocolates, and Bonne Maman strawberry preserves.

I made a silly little sticker. Keep up the work and keep up the treats that make you feel like it's worth it ✨

Wow, this is gorgeous! What cute names they have in Dutch too 🤗

Love seeing local folks pop up on here! Also love this collection ♥️

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

That looks profesh! 😙👌🏻

I was shocked!! October Forever was featured too!

Super super cool

No big deal I'm just IN A MAGAZINE

I'm holding a few postcards with a design of Wilson Library at UNC Chapel Hill

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!

The beginnings of a sketch of long leaf pines on my ipad, next to a window with snow falling in the background

I'm having a rare magical moment today, drawing pines and watching the snow fall ❄️

Your styling is GREAT! I struggle with that so much

From the North Carolina Outer Banks this past weekend 🦢

Yes! I got off Meta because of politics, but I am staying off because I'm realizing how much building my business around an algorithm SUCKED.

Probably it'll be tomorrow though

My art studio is in disarray, with products and boxes and packaging everywhere.

Every day I think "this is the day my studio will stop being a wreck." Anyway. Today was also not that day.