Erin has worked for Painting with a Twist since 2009 when the North Austin studio opened. She now manages the North Austin and Round Rock studios. Erin has her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas. In her personal work she paints large scale oil paintings and works as a part time scenic artist for Zach Theatre. She also enjoys cooking, gardening and being a mother.
Shelby Elizabeth is an illustrator living and working in Austin, Texas. In 2010, she received her BFA in Illustration with Honors from Ringling College of Art and Design. In addition to painting, Shelby spends her time working in other traditional mediums, such as ink and watercolor painting, creating illustrations to accompany and breathe new life into fables and modern lore. In her free time, she enjoys embroidery, friends, and all things bizarre and beautiful.
James Talon is the Art Director and Producer for the social MMO Furcadia. He has a degree in Linguistics and has earned many awards for his drawings and paintings over the years, though his favorite achievement of those was winning the gold seal in Texas State VASE in 9th grade by submitting a huge photo print of a tiny Chihuahua attacking the camera. James learned to love different cultures after living in Bydgoszcz, Poland for a year, but he doesn't recommend eating the duck blood soup. He's also participated in a cowboy mounted shooting (horseback riding with pistols) competition among other things and taught kids how to face off cows on horseback. For gardening as much as he loves it, he has the opposite of a green thumb, but he can't decide if that means he has a black thumb or not because in art theory the opposite would be a red thumb. His handle on instagram is james.talon.art if you want to see some of his artwork!
I see myself as a jack of all trades. I dabble in portrait photography, painting, illustration, logo design, embroidery, and I'm a hot-glue-gun master. I love creating art crafts with my kids and hand-made gifts for my family. I have a bachelor's degree in fine arts and another in computer science for animation. To me, teaching art to those around me is a perfectly wonderful way to spread joy in this world and one day I hope to be a children's book illustrator.
