Q + A Amongst Michele Maule

Tell us a piddling fleck almost you. Where did you lot develop or report together with what led you lot to the path you lot currently are on?

I studied drawing, printing together with printmaking at Portland State University together with graduated amongst a grade inwards fine art inwards 2005. I started selling on Etsy a pair of years later on when my friend suggested I endeavour it out. Shortly after I laid my Etsy shop, I moved to Detroit, together with it was during that fourth dimension that I actually started to focus on my fine art together with selling it online.

What's your principal focus currently and/or how would you lot depict your electrical current blueprint aesthetic?

My principal focus lately has been drawing together with icon animals, both wild together with domestic. I honour our human relationship amongst wild life fascinating. The domestication of surely animals together with the adaptation of others to our surround is thus interesting to me. I'd dear to plough over inwards this administration together with explore this dependent plain more.

Love your move - tin give the sack you lot explicate your blueprint process?

If I'm working on a background for the image, I oftentimes foremost there. I work a launder of watercolor pigment together with move it until I larn the colors together with textures that I like.

For the principal image, I oftentimes refer to vintage illustrations together with paintings of animals. I equally good role my friends' pets, equally good equally my ain for inspiration.

I oftentimes foremost amongst a sketch together with role watercolor pigment to fill upward it in. I together with thus become dorsum into the slice using tiny lines, of dissimilar colors, to stand upward for fur or texture. Each piddling trouble is made amongst a fine pigment brush. I honour this procedure to live on meditative together with it gives me a house to reflect.

At the terminate I similar going dorsum into the slice amongst a fine micron pen. I dear how the role of the pen pulls everything together together with makes the slice hold back finished.

What designers/makers/architects, etc work you lot hold back upward to, are influenced past times or inspire you?
There actually are so, so, many. It's difficult to option fifty-fifty only a few.

I dear the move of:
Lisa Congdon
Amy Ruppel
Rachel Austin
Brooke Weeber

I've looked upward to, together with bring been inspired past times these women since I started participating inwards the online fine art community. Recently, I've been inspired past times the move of Melida Tidwell. Her move tin give the sack live on seen here.

I equally good dear the move of
Frida Khalo
Louise Bourgoise
Robert Rauchenberg

Where else work you lot clit inspiration from?
I clit inspiration from my ain life together with from people closed to me. Portland, where I live, equally good plays a huge business office inwards my work. This urban substance is thus beautiful. It tin give the sack equally good live on thus moody at times. Sunshine 1 infinitesimal together with rainstorms the next. I dear it.

There's equally good this grittiness inwards some parts of the urban substance that I am inwards dear with. The grittiness has somewhat disappeared over the past times few years, but it's at that topographic point if you lot know where to look.

Any sneak peeks or plans you lot tin give the sack portion of novel or time to come things on the go?
Yes! I'm currently working on some piddling animals for an advertising way inwards Portland. I've equally good got some to a greater extent than foxes inwards the industrial plant equally good equally some novel paintings. I equally good bring big ideas that combine my beast etchings amongst handmade books. I bring thus many ideas together with thus piddling time!

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Shop : http://www.michelemaule.etsy.com
Blog: http://www.how2drawacupofcoffee.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michelemaule
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michelemauleart
And at Handmade here.

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