Welcome to Lizzy Pritty Arts

Hi, I’m Lizzy (also known as E. A. Pritchett)—the person behind Lizzy Pritty Arts.

I’ve always had a creative side. As far back as I can remember, I have loved arts, crafts, painting, and making things, even during the years when I wasn’t particularly good at any of them. My grandfather was very interested in art, and I grew up watching The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, fascinated by the way a blank canvas could slowly become an entire world.

My interest in drawing really took off during middle school. A close friend and I shared a love of Sailor Moon, and we would spend time drawing anime characters and trading our artwork with each other. What started as something fun gradually became something I wanted to take more seriously.

By high school, I was determined to take art classes. I eventually studied 2D and 3D art, drawing and painting, and crafts. I even discovered something important about myself along the way: while I can make things in three dimensions—including pottery, sculpture, and basic metalwork—my heart and my strengths are much more at home in 2D art.

Some of the artwork you’ll find here dates all the way back to those high school years.

After high school, I continued learning fine art largely on my own. I’ve experimented with many different mediums, including graphite, colored pencil, acrylic, oil, watercolor, charcoal, pastels, ink, and ink washes. I’ve also explored many different styles, from abstract and abstract expressionism to geometric art, pop art, surrealism, hyperrealism, impressionism, and more.

Of all the subjects I’ve explored, landscapes remain my favorite.

From Traditional Art to Digital Creation

My creative journey eventually expanded beyond the physical canvas.

In college, I learned web design, which opened an entirely new door for me. From there, I began teaching myself digital art through experimentation, trial and error, and countless tutorials. Once I learned how to create artwork and illustrations digitally, I began exploring graphic design, photo editing, logos, and other forms of digital creativity.

That evolution is one of the reasons I don’t think of myself as belonging to only one artistic category.

I enjoy traditional art.

I enjoy digital art.

I enjoy design.

I enjoy photography.

I enjoy writing.

To me, they’re all different ways of creating something that didn’t exist before.

Why “Lizzy Pritty Arts”?

The name itself is a little piece of art.

Lizzy comes from my nickname.

Pritty is a play on my last name, Pritchett, combined with the word pretty.

And then there is Arts—with an S.

That S is intentional.

I didn’t want to call myself simply “Lizzy Pritty Painter” or even “Lizzy Pritty Artist,” because art has always meant much more to me than painting on a canvas.

Drawing and painting are art. So are sculpture and pottery. Music, dance, theatre, and other performance arts are art. Photography is art. Design is art. Even writing can be an art—the art of using language and words to create something meaningful.

So Lizzy Pritty Arts is my way of saying:

Lizzy Pritchett’s pretty arts.

But it also represents something broader: my many different forms of creative expression.

A Little Bit of Everything

My creative interests don’t always follow a particular pattern.

Most of the time, I find myself drawn toward landscapes—especially oceans, skies, and beautiful scenery. Two of my favorite pieces, Sunset in the Tropics and Sunny Breakers, are completely different in medium and style, yet both reflect that love of oceanscapes and landscapes.

Other times, inspiration comes from somewhere completely different.

Sometimes it is a person or an animal. Sometimes it is an idea. Sometimes it is an emotion that needs somewhere to go.

When I’m particularly caught up in my emotions, that feeling may find its way into abstract art. My painting Emotions and Anger is one example of what can happen when feelings become the inspiration rather than a specific subject.

And sometimes I don’t have inspiration at all.

On those days, I might simply pick up some colored pencils and work in an adult coloring book. Creating doesn’t always have to mean producing a finished masterpiece. Sometimes it is simply about keeping that creative part of myself alive.

More Than Art

Writing has always been another important part of my creativity.

I’ve written poetry, kept personal journals, experimented with blogging, and spent years working on a novel trilogy. The first part of that trilogy is one of the creative accomplishments I’m especially proud of, even though the larger project is currently on hiatus while I work through a particularly stubborn case of writer’s block.

I’ve also always had a strange relationship with essays.

I don’t particularly enjoy writing them—but give me a complicated subject and, somehow, I can usually turn it into something logical and understandable. There is something satisfying about taking a tangled idea and finding the words to make sense of it.

Writing and visual art may seem like very different things, but to me they have something important in common:

Both allow you to take something inside your mind and turn it into something another person can experience.

Creating Through the Challenges

My creative journey hasn’t always been easy.

I’m a wife and a mom, and I’m also disabled. My body and mind don’t always cooperate with what I want to do. There are days when simply getting through basic things takes everything I have, and there are other days when I feel almost like myself again—only to discover that I’ve pushed past my limits and paid for it afterward.

But I keep coming back to creating.

Sometimes I can do a lot.

Sometimes I can only do a little.

And sometimes I can’t create at all.

I’ve learned that creativity doesn’t have to happen on a perfect schedule to still matter.

For me, continuing to create—even imperfectly, inconsistently, or in small ways—is part of continuing to live life on my own terms.

What I Hope You’ll Find Here

I don’t expect every person who visits my work to think every piece is beautiful. Art is subjective, and there will always be someone more technically skilled, more experienced, or simply creating something that speaks more directly to a particular person.

That’s okay.

What I hope you do find when you look at my work is something that makes you pause.

Maybe it makes you feel awe or wonder.

Maybe it makes you curious.

Maybe it makes you think, “What was she feeling when she created this?”

Maybe you don’t completely understand a piece—and that’s okay, too.

I want the heart and soul that went into creating something to be felt, even when the artwork itself is unconventional.

I don’t want someone to look at a piece and simply think, “That’s just globs of paint on a canvas.”

I want them to pause and think:

“It’s unconventional…but I can feel the energy and care that went into it.”

That feeling is worth more to me than creating something that is simply technically perfect.

Welcome to My Creative World

Lizzy Pritty Arts is a collection of the things I love to create—traditional and digital artwork, design and illustration, photography, writing, and whatever other creative adventure catches my attention along the way.

Some of the work you’ll find here was created years ago. Some is brand new. Some may eventually become products, prints, books, or something I haven’t even imagined yet.

That’s part of the fun.

Thank you for stopping by, exploring my work, and taking a little time to see the world through my eyes.

I hope you find something here that makes you pause.