Erin Hanson began painting as a young girl, greedily learning oils, acrylics, watercolor, pastels, pen and ink and life drawing from her school’s art instructor. At age ten, she was painting dog portraits and even painted an album cover on commission. By the time she was twelve, she was working at a mural studio, learning the techniques of acrylics on the grand scale of 40-foot canvases. A high school scholarship took her to Otis College of Art, where she studied figure drawing. While an undergr