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Froggy McFrogface
Erica Dawn Smith
Acrylic on canvas board
12”h x 9”w - framed
2022
Gulf coast toads are amazing little critters. This one lived in a potted plant on our porch for the summer. Each night it would bury itself completely and every morning my four year-old daughter would dig him up and carry him around. Froggy McFrogface, as she called him, was so patient as she held him in her lap to study his features and tell him stories. Eventually she would get distracted and he would hop away and hide. Until the next morning, when we would find a lump in the soil and she’d dig him up again.
Get to Know the Austin Artist:
Erica Dawn Smith has spent most of her career working in the entertainment industry as a professional scenic artist. She grew up in a small town in southern Indiana, earned a bachelor's degree in set design from Indiana University, then completed a scenic painting internship at Yale School of Drama. She then went on to paint and design professionally, doing short stints in Massachusetts and California, then spending eight years in Nashville before eventually moving to Texas in 2013.
After giving birth to her daughter in 2017, Erica left the hectic pace of the film and television industry in Austin to settle into an inspired, peaceful life on the family ranch in Blanco. In her garden studio, surrounded by native plants and animals, she paints softly detailed works in acrylic that honor the awe-inspiring moments that occur when we slow down and observe the natural world around us.
