michelle my belle

artful blogging!

i've been featured!!!
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I'VE MOVED!!!

i'm now posting on my new blog! yay!

http://www.close2myart.com/blog/

thank you so much for following me up till now.
you make the ridiculous amounts of time i spend doing blog posts worth it!
i hope you'll make this move with me.

if you could take a moment to change your feeds and links on your sidebars, i would SO COMPLETLY LOVE YOU FOR IT! :)

xoxo-michelle

artfest silk screening workshop

the 2nd workshop i taught at artfest was silk screening.
please visit our NEW blog for this post...
http://www.close2myart.com/blog

the finished dolls & dudes!

this class was SO MUCH FUN!!! (well, besides our toaster ovens kicking the breaker box 30 times)
it helped that everyone in the class were artists in their own right and had NO LACK of creativity!

i wanted to take them all home with me.

i loved how people's personalities showed through in their creations.
and as you can see, we had an abundance of personality!


thank you to everyone who took my workshop!
you were amazing. each and every one of you! SERIOUSLY AMAZING.

and i'm really sorry to do it this way, but if i'm ever going to actually get this post up...
here is a list of blog/websites of some of the gals in the class where several of them have posted more pictures of their pieces and more details about their artfest experience.
please check them out...
kt40's blog
lemoncholy's
lambsworld
stephanie schleicher
kaleidoscope lane
an li na designs
jill berry
miss mindy
lori carey
danielle daniel
annie hooten
nicci battilana
jessie starling

**i know that i am missing a few people's pieces which i can't quite figure out how that happened. :(
if you notice your missing and have a few pictures you could send me i'd love to add them to this post.**

doll & dudes artfest #2

okay so, i'm still scrambling to catch up from artfest.
and editing and sorting pictures takes a lot longer than i had anticipated.
therefore, i'm just going to show you stage 1 of my doll making workshop...

to begin with, i had a whole room full of crazy talented people!




the creativity was in abundance.

the sensational miss mindy.
when she emailed me to say she was taking my class, i was like- "for reals?".

another intimidating albeit lovely gal in my class- author/artist Jill Berry.

i can't wait to show you all their finished pieces.
they are AWESOME!!!

port townsend artfest post #1

sorry about the no post yesterday.
just too much work to catch up on.
let me just start by saying- artfest was once again, AWESOME!!!

one of the highlights for me this year... was a picture-taking-excursion with friends kate daniel

and janne robberstad.




port townsend, wa is such a lovely little town.
it was like one big treasure hunt!

i'll be back tomorrow with more!