Tales, recipes, and general observations from the unique perspective
of a mother of two kids with an 18 year age gap, and "bonus mom" to an active middle schooler.
I have posted several of my paintings on my Etsy account for sale. Please swing by and check it out. There are lots of great, original things to be found on Etsy. It's the perfect place to find one of a kind holiday gifts!! I'm willing to negotiate with you if you are interested in buying more than one, just shoot me an email! If you are in Seattle, you can see them in person at my show:
Photography by Niffer Calderwood and Art by Michelle Auer
Live Music: The Moonspinners and FEELINGS, featuring Kurt Bloch and Leslie Beattie, will be playing sets for this event. Not to be missed!!
Please join us in the spectacular Gibson Guitar showroom in Belltown for Third Thursday!
If you missed Niffer and Michelle at the Barton Street Lofts last week, you have another chance to see their work! (If you were there, you should come to this show because it's gonna be a great time and there will be some new stuff exclusive to this show!)
Darian and I went and saw the new Alice in Wonderland this weekend. I made the above painting as soon as I got home. It was visually inspired, but the story was a little uninspired.
The below photo is just something I was trying out. I did that thing where you just randomly open a book on the shelf, but instead of trying to play magic 8 ball with it looking for deeper meaning, I turned it into a canvas. I think the Keyhole was partially due to the fact this was done on the heels of finishing the Alice painting. (No classic books were harmed in the making of this painting. I scanned it and painted on the printed page.)
Where do you begin when you have taken a seemingly forever hiatus from doing something? I have a theory that I am to art as bi-polar people are to mood swings. You just cruise along all normal and stuff and then, suddenly, a manic episode where everything is moving in fast forward. That is how inspiration hits me. I get really super involved in certain mediums for a truncated period of time. During that time, I am very prolific and create tons of stuff in that medium, but if I take a break from it, or get interrupted, boom, the ride is over, back to reality. I've done it with music, writing, drawing, photography, painting, sculpting, sewing, cake decorating, knitting... you name the genre and I have probably dabbled in it at one time or another.
My family has been kind enough to dedicate one of our very few and precious closets in our tiny city dwelling for me to store all of the supplies, so if the mood strikes me, I will be ready. They also don't seem to mind when I spend a long weekend in my pj's keeping strange hours just creating one thing after another like some sort of machine until finally I am nodding off and Jon tells me that it is time to go to sleep. In that tiny closet, I have supplies to do pretty much anything. I like knowing it is there. Opening the door is unlocking the things that are always swirling around in my head.
On that note, instead of trying to detail with words everything that has been happening in my life recently, here are many visuals to show you what I've been up to:
Chewie is still the cutest doggie ever and I discovered he has a teeny mustache:
There was The Posies show at The Croc where I got to see lots of friends I have not seen in ages:
Tales, recipes, and general observations from the unique perspective of a mother of two kids with an 18 year age gap, and step mother to an active middle schooler. In the world of parenting, pre and post the internet age, I've pretty much seen it all and don't mind sharing what I've learned.
Insomnia- 10x10 original acrylic on canvas- $95 
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