Found Art

Here is a picture of my found art artwork. I used collaged painted papers on a reply card that I found in a magazine. On the back is a little message to the one who finds it. I am thinking of leaving it in an art book at Joseph Beth's bookstore. At least the person who finds it will be interested in art!

Back from vacation

Today I got back from Michigan City, Indiana. It was a very relaxing trip and I have some new ideas for some artwork. Going someplace new, even a new coffee shop, can be used for some sort of inspiration. I need to some day (when I am rich...ha!) buy a cottage on the lake. It is so tranquil and relaxing. I felt so inspired just by looking out at the water. Cheesy I know...but so true. This week I plan on working on more artwork. I kind of took a break when I was on vacation. I also would like to leave my "found art" artwork somewhere for someone to find. This wonderful idea of leaving a work of art for an unsuspecting individual came from the artist Rosa Murillo. I have a link to her site on this blog. Check out her art, it is very cool! Well I am going to finish up my cup of Mango Green tea. I bought it at Le Gourmet Chef and it tastes almost as good as coffee! The tea is by Bentley's and comes in a pretty green tin. I'm sure I bought it for the tin...luckily it is good!

On Vacation

Right now I am on vacation in Michigan City, Indiana. It has been a beautiful weekend and Monday and I cannot wait to go to the beach! Over the weekend I went to the Michigan City Art fair in Washington Park. I bought a really cute wall hanging from an artist named Nicole Moore. She owns a cool shop called Art and Soul in Winona Lake, Indiana. She specializes in watercolor drawings with fun little quotes. Love it! I bought a wall plaque that says:
Make Art
Buy ARt
Live Art

The saying is hammered into a copper plate...so fun! If you get a chance check out her etsy shop at www.artandsoulshop.etsy.com. Well I am off to the beach, will blog later!

Happy Daisy Day!

The End of Summer

The beginning of school signals the end of summer. School starts for me on August 25th, back to the old routine! I have been busy working on more art and making more art videos for the website www.canvasdoor.com. My husband and I finally got the format down for making movies. Imovie for mac computers is amazing and makes it so easy. On Friday I am going on a vacation with my family to Michigan City, Indiana. I am hoping for some inspiration plus some beach time. Michigan City is right on Lake Michigan. It has beautiful sandy beaches and wonderful outlet shopping.

Oh...another thing I have started is a little shop on Etsy.com. Please look for my shop michellebrunner. Thanks!

Phoenix Coffee Shop

Here is a picture of my art studio..or the summer kitchen of our house. Art studio is way better. I love summer, everything is so lush and green and beautiful. It really stinks to think that in 3 months there could be snow. Gross. Anyways here is my day.......

Today I went to the Phoenix Coffee Shop that is next to Rob's store. I ordered the hummus plate and iced peach green tea. The guy working the counter told me he was really excited to make my hummus plate. Nobody ever orders them and he has only done 3 before. When it came out it looked very nice, he really took his job in making my hummus plate very seriously. Anyways I worked on rubrics and stuff for school. Not that much fun. I came home and worked on some more collages with all of the art supplies I bought at Prizm Art store on Mayfield Rd. I got like a million canvases and more matte medium and gloss medium to varnish my artworks. Such a difference! Anyways I was super productive today and my birthday is tomorrow so I am going to relax! My husband got me a new ipod (its green!) and the nike ipod thing that tracks how far you run. It is so amazing! If you like to run randomly around the neighborhood like I do, this is the thing for you...it tells you how far you go, calories burned and there is a voice that comes over the music to tell you when you have ran each mile. I am in love. Ok well I am going to try to upload a video I made on drawing a mouth. If it works let me know what you think.

Jack Henry

Here is Jack Henry, the craziest dog ever. I think I want to do a painting series on him. He is so comical....and insane.

Crazy Monday

Well today has been an interesting Monday. My husband and I worked on my new and improved CanvasDoor website that will be out soon. I am going to be including video demonstrations on basic art techniques such as shading a sphere, drawing facial features, etc. I spent 2 hours today making these videos using my video camera on my Mac only to have Rob come home and watch them and tell me that we need to change the format of them. Blah. Oh well they were fun to do and got me excited again about teaching. School starts soon...which is good and bad. The bad part is getting up at 5 Am. The good part is being back to a schedule. Don't get me wrong...I LOVE summer. After 3 months of feeling guilty if I don' t do something every minute it is nice to feel really productive!

Anyways....tomorrow I think I am going to go back to this great art store I found down the street from where I live. They have tons of canvas in interesting dimensions and great supplies for very reasonable prices. I am going to do more of my collage mixed media artworks. I have changed my style a little and I am having a lot of fun with it! I am posting some of these new artworks. These artworks were inspired by Eric Carle and the finch that lives in my backyard. I had so much fun working on them so I am hoping to do a ton more. Well gotta go and sleep. I will write more.

music to paint to

Music to Paint to

I am creating this section for other artists like me that welcome inspiration from music.

By clicking on the play button of each volume you will hear an eclectic playlist of songs.