tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74706074165371442322012-02-16T07:42:09.631-08:00Original art and musings on life, food and home.Michellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13215976272132804527noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7470607416537144232.post-79466003567763683222010-12-22T11:47:00.000-08:002010-12-22T11:47:54.102-08:00

I popped by The Blue Pig yesterday and dropped off a few more pieces. One sold to a sweet gentleman shortly after I hung it on the wall :-)  Trying to Come to a Concensus Left Them Rather Confused5 x 3  AcrylicSOLD Max Was Quite Proud of His Ability to Strike a Pose3 x 3  Acrylic  Boris Had Gained Much Wisdom in His Years of Wandering8 x 8  Acrylic & Charcoal

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I delivered these two new pieces to The Blue Pig Cafe yesterday. I'll be taking in more this weekend. Of course, I just had to paint a blue pig ;-) Leo Often Contemplated Life in the Late 15th Century Acrylic 12 x 12 Secrets Were Not Well Kept in the Hen House Acrylic 5 x 4

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Last night I happily hung 17 of my pieces at The Blue Pig Cafe here in Portland. The food there is delish, with great prices and a super friendly and attentive staff. For those of us that are vegetarian, they offer many veggie alternatives as well (I had the egg biscuit with veggie gravy the other day :-) The Blue Pig Cafe is located on 50th and SE Division. Below are some of my newest

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I haven't disappeared - in between a lovely visit from one of my dearest friends and a very scary medical procedure, I've been painting dogs in double: Roxie & Peanut9 x 12 Acrylic Abby & Achilles8 x 10 AcrylicSOLD

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Book addict that I am, I couldn’t help but pop by Powell’s the other day (oh the joys of living near The City of Books!) and being that it’s close to impossible to leave Powell’s without at least one new acquisition, I came out with “The Object Stares Back”. In it, art historian James Elkins discusses the nature of sight drawing not just from his artistic background, but also from philosophy,

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One of the four books I’m reading right now is an anthology on aesthetic theory called “The Nature of Art”. The first chapter is an excerpt from Plato’s “The Republic”. I have to admit that before diving into this book I had fond memories of Plato from college. It seemed romantic at the time - his writings on Form and his ideas on soul mates. But now, reading him again for the first time in 20

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I've been thinking about inspiration a lot lately. Ideas have been flooding me at an almost alarming rate and I'm feeling the need to act. To make these things concrete. One is a project I'll be revealing soon having to do with shelter animals and my art. I also have far more ideas for paintings than I have time to complete. For now sketches will have to suffice for those that haven't made it to

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Why The Fanciful Fox? It wasn’t the first name that popped into my mind. I hemmed, I hawed and per my usual tendencies, I did endless research before settling on a name for this blog. I went through the “to dash or not to dash” query. The “should I just use my own name?” query. The “should I really even start a blog?” query. Then I pondered some more.After a couple of days of this, I finally

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