New Blog!

Hey everyone. It's been a long hiatus but, I'm here to let everyone know things are up and rolling again! I've been super busy with loads of gallery shows, family, and class planning.

Check out the new blog, Dancey Pants Disco. New posts will all be put up there as well as updates about my art-ventures, FB group events, and Etsy sales (I'm sure a bit of personal life too)!

Thesis!

Here's some more photos of my thesis pieces on my Flickr account!!

Yey, Thesis!! Thesis was so much fun and it feels so good to be a Ringling alum. I'm excited to start working on tons of personal projects as I seek out some more opportunities elsewhere. I will be moving up to Asheville NC with my friend Felicia. There's talk of a possible internship on Nantucket for the summer so that's another possibility..

..Most of these thesis pieces will be up for sale on my etsy soon! Get excited to build your own paper dolls! <3

Art show!

My very first art booth ever! <3 It was so much fun and I met so many amazing people!! Can't wait for my next one. For now, i'll focus on thesis. <3

and Another!

I'm a machine right now and I can't stop creating!


And its 7am, have to leave for class in a bit. Completely lost track of time painting another painting:




..I think I may be a painting addict. Yikes!

Sailor Boy!

He was a sailor boy, she said see ya later boy!

.....kidding.

Square One is this Saturday and i'll hopefully be making bank! haha, I definitely need it to help pay for my thesis set up.. : /

After Saturday I'll devote every moment to thesis. Sorry other classes, you'll have to take the back seat.

<3michelle!

Still working on Thesis!

I need to post more.. I'll be mass producing a ton of stuff for an upcoming show, so I'll post the end result of my month of all-nighters!

For now, a fisherman riding a squirrel:



<3

And also; I like to paint on random pieces of wood [or whatever I can find honestly]

In North Carolina!

I'm currently in Asheville, North Carolina for spring break and i'm surrounded by crafty people and stores full of handmade goods. It's pretty inspiring! Working on tons of new stuff for that art sale in April and also tons of school work as well [mostly thesis and book arts]. So look forward to a new post full of these new creations.

For now, some older pieces, recently re-shot:




And a better photograph of my little monster from the piece that got into Society.



Hope everyone's having a lovely March so far! It's only the 6th but mine's going stupendously. <3

Thesis!

My first little post about thesis. This is a bear. He's a circus bear. He is cute and jointed so he can move unlike other paper bears. We love him!

Illest of Ill piece!

Finally got my Illest of Illustration piece scanned!
Say Hello to Lil Red!

For your viewing pleasure!

We made some plush pillows today at work! We used hot glue, fabric, and tons of little accessories. Yay, crafty days!



I'll get some more stuff up here soon. I'm about to vacation to North Carolina to visit a dear dear friend, Felicia. I'll ideally have tons of stuff to show when I get back!

Here's another plush I had made for a friend awhile back, just now got some photos:



Going to make a ton more of these for Square One at the Ritz in Ybor in mid-april. Also more for Etsy!

A girl, a snake, a bear, and some randoms.

<3 She very soon realized that today may have not been the best day to wear her new mouse suit... <3



A cute little drawing I just found while piling up some things to burn from in my closet [ha!].



And a little something to share with hopes that everyone had a lovely valentine's day!

Society of Illustrators!

I got a piece into Society of Illustrators! I'm honestly so excited and honored.. Congratulations to all the other students nationwide who made it in! There's such a variety of work in the winning entries and i'm really impressed with everyone. Ringling got 19 pieces in as well which is definitely awesome!

This is the baby that made it:


Make sure you check out all the winning entries on the Society of Illustrators website!

Happy Valentine's Day!

This year's vday cards! just for all of you. <3<3<3<3

Hope everyone has a lovely Valentine's weekend filled with Godiva chocolate and red roses! [er. or not. preferably not- mix it up this year!]

I have theses printed, so if you'd like one remind me when I see you around campus!

Yay!

It's been busy.. but, i'm loving this semester!

Here goes;
My name's Michelle and here's art!



More soon. Obviously.

Some stuff from Artist's Books. <3

Yessir, he's drowning. Don't worry though. He'll be saved!



I was always told not to tear my books.. Well mum, I shredded "Where the Wild Things Are."
Sorry!



3 book series. The second one is way interactive! You'll have to see it in person. The boombox-box DOES have real speakers with an mp3 hook-up for all of your dancing needs. Ohh yeah! <3<3 Completely illustrated, written, bound, covered, and created by me! I want to make things like this forever.




More soon! It's winter break and i'm STOKED to be able to work on some of my own things as well as to start thesis!

Finally got a new digicamm!

We had an open illustration assignment in my illustration class and I wanted to do an ill of a little boy scaring his closet monster. It was really time consuming but I LOVE how it came out. So so so cute. All the little toys were so much fun to make and I especially like the little hanger hanging from his closet doorknob. The monster has posable arms andd cute lil hands.

I'm ever so happy to be reunited with a digital camera again. So be excited! I'll be posting all of my other 3d stuff i've been working on for the past 3 months over the next few weeks.

<3<3

Thrift Store finds!

I love silhouette work. And I LOVE finding it at Good Will!
Check it;


From my phone, so sorry for the quality..

I have TONS of stuff i'm dying to show you, but my digital camera broke a while back, so its been a little difficult as all i'm doing lately is 3D (sort-of?). Soon, promise! Lots of stuff from my bookarts class and our open assignment from my illustration class [inspired by RedNose], all sculpture-esque.

<3<3!

Ah, Nantucket Fall..

My first Autumn.

Sketchbook!

Hope everyone had a splendiddd Halloween! Mine was lovely. I spent it on Nantucket, Massachusetts. We were unicorns. <3

I finally got around to making my own sketchbook so here she is, along with some sketches! oh yeaah!





yayayay. i love bookmaking so much! I made the book in this really awkward format though which makes it easy for me to introduce myself to new people by shoving half my book in their personal space while i try and draw in it! While at first, thought inconvenient, it's actually working quite well. <3


I'm also working on this lil thang for Thiel::



Again with the awkward very-vertical format. She's kinda cute.. but hey.
The next assignment is an open assignment and I'm pretty excited because i'm planning on doing a little CD/booklet/poster music branding type thing. Devendra Banhart, the Unicorns, the Islands, or ummm Cocorosie? Hm. Still deciding and planning all of that.

Some more random things!

Just made a 3-part book for my artist's books class! I love it! It connects to yo iPod and plays music! haha. I included all of my own text and illustrations-- be excited.

For the very last page, I created a little discotheque with two of my fave DJs in all of ybor as the DJs for the dance party. Here they are:




Also worked on some self-promo stuff for my portfolio class.. I put a different blog/e-mail on the entire package and i've completely changed my mind. So the design will be the same but the information is definitely off, so imagine otherwise. ha!