my little guys in good company




(images happily ganked from art whino and chris creatures)

wish i coulda gone, but ah well.

but yea, for anyone who was interested, those two monsters, "wonder" and "believe" are now available from the art whino gallery for several pretty pennies.


ok back to work.

inspiration for the next thing i'm doing


these boys

i adore them

this fat bastard

you may remember him

im finishing up the sketches, i'll show them to you soon.

tonight!
korean food!
bruno!
chubby!

onward.

My art business has been a little quiet, at least on the surface. I've been processing a lot of information and ideas from travel, catching up on work, catching up on the part-time desk gig, catching up on spending time sketching and drawing, writing, cooking, cleaning, settling.

thinking

Meanwhile, as i do that, my first published article came out, in Stuffed Magazine, and hit Jo-Ann Fabrics, Borders, Barnes & Nobles, etc, all over the country.

Meanwhile, my first check for writing an article, for said magazine, came in the mail, and I felt another milestone under my feet.

Meanwhile, these three bastards are on their way home, and will be available for consumption soon.





Meanwhile, I've got two more of my 'children' arriving in Maryland for my first plush-art-show experience, at the Art Whino gallery, for the Mortal Plush show, this Saturday, July 11.




Meanwhile, I am keeping to what I want and keeping it honest and keeping quiet.


wabi sabi
dusty yarn
expensive beer
worn-out hands
5am
charcoal
my dog
banjos
gondry
cheddar
florenza pincushions
mini comics
cambodia
chubby
higgins ink
henry miller
your face

sketchin' sketches

available here

workity work


awesome. more here


time to refresh your browsers, kids, this thing is pretty much up and running
www.melissasuestanley.net
flickr/blogger/livejournal/facebook/myspace is ok i guess, but i prefer having a nice, clean, neat place to look at my work together more cohesively and more professional-like. Something that says "Hello, I am an artist and I'm not fucking around"... rather than "OH HAI! I MAKE STUFF wanna See? and we can be Friends!!!@!"


wouldn't it be fun to turn off all social networking sites for one month?

well hello there

so many little things

i'm back, i'm working, the wheels are turning, less is being more
i can't really talk about my painting, or even my soft-sculpture, here
i'm so frustrated
but if before i go to sleep each day i've made something or some drawing that didn't exist when i woke up, if i can make something exist each day, then i can be ok

i need to lighten up.
here is a picture of my husband:


here is something i saw on the internets today:




here are some birds i made:

(sarlo is a nickname, i can't really explain it, it's a chubby thing)

i think i go grocery shopping three times a week because i just love it so much

the farmstand is running, and vegetables are getting better, and i love getting home and putting fresh and good smelling food away

here is a new studio monster available in my etsy shop

my paintings make pretty nice backgrounds for photographing these things.
eventually there will be a shift between sewing and painting. i'm not ready yet. but soon.
until then, these guys will continue to come into existence with my little fingers and live with me in the studio


last night chubby and i got our plane tickets for southeast asia, this fall.
to celebrate tonight i wanted a big bowl of pho


sleep now.

travel brained



taking a little break from work (update later, tomorrow maybe)
i'm going through and fixing the travel blog - putting back in all the pictures from Vietnam and Cambodia.
Planning the trip for this fall.
vietnam-thailand-laos-cambodia-vietnam
in vietnam we'll see thiet and ly and mien
in cambodia we'll see samedi's family again
in thailand we'll see my brother
in laos we'll see everything


in the meantime, slowly putting the photos back in. click here, scroll down a little