our belle, michelle

October 1, 2006 at 11:49 am · Filed under features, sunday slices

Michelle lives in California but lived in NYC prior to that. She’s an artist and graphic designer. Her mixed media images of women are lovely and inspiring. She started blogging in March this year. Her first foray into posting self-portraits was in April. It was for the April Fool theme.

Why am I an April Fool you ask? Because for a split second I thought I could get a little love from the meanest cat in the world! See him turning away!! He only has eyes for one person, and that would be my husband. He simply tolerates me! I live in his world.

One of the reasons she participates in Self Portrait Challenge is because it reminds her of an earlier time in her life when she had similair assignments for school:

I like the nostalgic feeling I get participating in each weeks SPT. My first semester in art school I was in a class called Visual Literacy. Every week we would have an assignment to Graphically represent ideas and images, etc. It was a real challenge to be original, and not always go for the obvious solution, to really push myself. Hey, I was barely 21, alone in NYC for the first time. I had bigger fish to fry! Now, I see the value in the lessons, and look forward to the weekly challenge of SPT. And the best part is that no one is grading me ;)

On days when my brain is over loading, and I need a few minutes to gather my thoughts, I will go and lie down next to Charlie.

I like to poke fun of him on my blog, with his funny bath bomb mishaps and the whole pond on top of the car schpiel , but really he is a good guy! Obviously he keeps me laughing! And if it weren’t for him, I would never have had the opportunity to pursue being an artist.

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