Amy E. Fraser Art

  House In The Meadow by Amy E. Fraser      Once upon a time, not so very long ago, a young couple yearned for a clean and wholesome environment in which to raise their newborn son. The man and woman scraped together all of their savings and put a small down payment on a beautiful piece of land on the side of a mountain, deep in the New Hampshire forest. They went through many trials and tribulations but eventually they began to build their dream home. While still unfinished, the couple, anxious to begin their new life, moved from their noisy apartment in an ancient Round House on top of busy train tracks into the quiet new house in the middle of the forest. When they arrived, they imagined that the most difficult part was behind them and looked forward to the next step in their journey together.      The house in the forest represented the dreams the couple shared for their future. However, the beginning times were very hard. ...

Okay, I know, you are SO over hearing about the Feminist Ink series, but just one thing more, I promise. Since I forgot to include additional links and images for Feminist Ink in yesterday’s post I thought it might be fun to share the top ten Feminist Ink picks so far on Pinterest: Serpent Cycle by Amy E. Fraser Maternal Sacrifice by Amy E. Fraser Rooted by Amy E. Fraser Seedling Sentry by Amy E Fraser Broken Dreams by Amy E. Fraser Cerebral Gathering by Amy E. Fraser Gravid Bound by Amy E. Fraser Below by Amy E. Fraser Bone Curator by Amy E. Fraser Autumn Worship by Amy E. Fraser      I swear I’m not bragging, but I can’t deny that I am completely thrilled that people are showing an interest in these works. They may just be looking at it in horror for all I know, but whatever. I’m happy! I’ll take an honest reaction any day. And as they say, art doesn’t exist until someone sees it. So hurray, the work has es...

Guardians by Amy E. Fraser      The Feminist Ink series is complete! I just finished and posted “Guardians” today! It was the last of the drawings from my Dartmouth Thesis project. Wow! Was that a task and a half! What a relief to finally have it finished. I feel like I need a reward for all of that incredibly hard work, or perhaps even a vacation? Ok maybe not, it’s not like I got paid to do this project. Whatever the case I am elated that I actually stuck with it and completed the entire series of 32 drawings (at an average of 10 hours each). Oh did I mention that there were 32 drawings? Yeah, excruciating to edit, but yay me! I did it.       So not only was this project a major time suck but I must admit it has been pretty difficult traveling back in time into my old head space. However, now that I’ve made it to the other side, I get to decide what project to tackle next! The only problem with that being, I have so many projects on th...

Where does the time go? So much for my intentions of consistent blogging, apparently that’s NOT happening. Instead, I’ve been consumed the past few weeks with editing my “Feminist Ink” series. I found my collection of Thesis drawings over the winter break and thought cleaning up the 20 year old concept drawings to make available on AEFraser.com would be a fun little challenge. Challenge, definitely yes, fun, not so much. I scanned in the hefty stack of 32 [11” x 17”] pen and ink drawings, thinking Hey! These are cool, they will add some interesting depth and dimension to my “getting to know your artist series” that I started here on the blog a few months ago. I don’t know if you are realizing this about me or not, but nothing I ever do is fast or easy. The quick clean up that I imagined was going to happen ended up being a major rework on each image, some taking as long as 10-12 hours respectively. What was I thinking? You decide. Here is the before and after example of “Moon Blooming...