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papermillcreative.bsky.social
Librarian-turned-artist creating art & gifts that celebrate the places we love. Based in Durham NC. www.papermillcreative.com/links
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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.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Update from the snowfall and my pine drawing. Both are coming along nicely!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

From the North Carolina Outer Banks this past weekend 🦢

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Hot damn, if there's not anything better than holding your new product for the first time. (Also hot damn, what am I thinking releasing house warming cards at a moment when the whole metaphorical house is on fire)

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

What's a girl gotta do around here to be reincarnated as a little cat in a big papasan napping in a sunbeam

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Yay, my Native Plants of NC stickers are back in stock! (another top notch job from @stickerninja.bsky.social 💜💜) And now they're in two sizes: one for your car bumper, one for your notebook, so you can easily be identified as a native plant nerd wherever you go.

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

I have had these files sitting around half-finished for a year. I finally buckled down this week to finish them and get them off to the printer!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I'm a big fan of this starter pack! It's making my feed so colorful and creative 💜

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

One screen for drawing, one screen for reference, one screen for entertainment (and in the darkness bind them?) #unexpectedtolkein

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Still trying to find my community here! I'm looking for you if you are: 🐂 Durham, NC / Triangle-based 🎨 an artist or maker (esp. watercolor, gouache, & stationery) 🛍️ a local gift shop or bookstore 🌱 into native plants & birds 💡 a resource for creative businesses 🤓 into local history & architecture

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

Hello to everyone who's followed me over to Bluesky from Instagram! I'm excited (or is that actually trepidation?) about trying to run a Meta- and Amazon-free art business in 2025. I look forward to connecting with you on Bluesky, my newsletter, and always and forever most importantly, in person 💙

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

I did plein air painting for the first time today. It taught me some things I don't know about watercolor, like for example that I don't know anything about watercolor 🙃

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

No painting to post today, just my goofy dog. This is Miracle Max and he will kindly take whatever treats you have in your pocket tyvm

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite house portrait I've ever done 💚 Give me an overflowing garden over a lawn any day. #watercolor #art #illustration #gouache

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Some artists leave us too young. But they leave behind a wonderful collection of work and a wistful sense of what could have been. One such artist is Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900-1931). This is her story...

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

Another day, another painting! I'm going to use this account to share the art I'm ✨not✨ monetizing, because that's important too! #watercolor #painting #blueridge

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Hi #bluesky! I might post some of my art here. #watercolor #landscape #sanibel

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment