I’m excited to share some great news with you. This spring a collage of mine, “Secret Garden” was selected to be published in Lesley Riley’s new book: Inspirational Quotes Illustrated: Art and Words to Motivate!* After admiring and drawing inspiration from her work and methods for a number of years, it was a real […]
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Michelle Casey, Frida Kahlo-inspired collage mail art, 2014 Earlier this year artist Tina Morris (UK) sent me a fabulous package of mail art. It contained several postcard prints of her awesome abstract paintings as well as a Frida Kahlo-inspired collage she’d recently made: a provocative piece in which she skilfully adorned an image […] Michelle Casey, “Hands 2”, Mixed Media Collage, 4 x 4 inches, April 2014 Michelle Casey, “The Universe within Me”, Mixed Media Collage, 4 x 4 inches, April 2014 My apologies for leaving you blogless last week. Today I thought I’d share some recent pieces I’ve been working on with you. […] Spirograph by Lupsiberg For a decade now I’ve been frequenting a number of shopping malls in our city. While I enjoy the solitude of working in my studio, I often feel the urge to get out and be amongst people. It might seem strange, but I’ve found I get more writing and reading […] Michelle Casey’s finished Secret Garden page. Faber-Castell Art Grip colour pencils were used to colour this. Today I thought I’d share my first coloured page in Johanna Basford’s Secret Garden with you along with imparting some more reflections on colouring. Recently, I was compelled to buy the book because I hoped it would […] … I told the interviewer, I believed stories are found things, like fossils in the ground, he said that he didn’t believe me. I replied that this was fine, as long as he believed that I believe it. And I do. Stories aren’t souvenir tee-shirts or GameBoys. Stories are relics, part of undiscovered pre-existing […] Club Monaco’s diamond-shaped display of old porcelain plates… I’ll be lingering longer in the ceramics section of the next antique fair I visit! (Photo from The Visual Beat Blog … see link below) People want to know – what skills make a good artist? One I feel that’s really important is to be […] Wendy Southin in her beautiful country garden… after I snapped this photo, as if on cue, a dragonfly came and rested on her hand… it was like something right out of fairy tale! At last, the highly anticipated second half of Wendy Southin of Dragonfly Dreamers interview… MC: Wendy, images from nature […] During my first “Pieces of Me” exhibition, a visitor enquired where I was in my journal pages. “I kept looking for you!” she said. I told her I was there almost everywhere in them… in fact, many female figures whether they be young or old, carried some aspect I wished to embody. Thus far, […] |
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