Makewells

Time Out

Hello friends, 

Just a little announcement that Makewells will be taking a time out until next Monday.

I have been out of town since last Wednesday (chaperoning a Senior Trip for my high schoolers...76 kids, an average of 5 hours of sleep a night, 9 1/2 hours in the ER with 4 different kids, ziplining, hiking, paintball, slip and slide, mountain biking, horse back riding, whitewater rafting, rollercoaster riding, plus a waterpark...) but I managed to keep the blog going while I was gone!

I'm back, but I'll be moving to Virginia on Saturday. Between then and now I must move out of my classroom, move out of my parents' house, and say goodbye to a billion people. PLUS, I don't have my own computer at the moment, but will have a brand new laptop when I get back into blog world next week!

So, with all that, I decided it was ok to take 2 days off from the blog. 

A brand new adventure is just days away...so I look forward to my first post as a Virginia resident  on Monday!

Til then, 

Meg

Tuesday Type: Sean McCabe

Sean McCabe has been obsessed with letter forms since he was a kid. He's self trained, a perfectionist, and just really good at lettering...to learn more about his process cilck here. But if you just want to see my favorites, scroll down for some simple, typograhic eye candy.

 

Happy Tuesday! (PS, I've been out of town since last Wednesday but I'm back tonight! Then 3 days until I finally move to VA!)

Monday Muse: Michelle Morin

She's not just a favorite of mine, because with more than 16,000 admirers of her etsy shop, Michelle Morin has gained quite a following. Her shop, United Thread, is packed full of gorgeous watercolors illustrating some of my favorite things: birds, plant life, and sea creatures.

Make sure you stop in to view all her work, but until then, you can gaze at a few of my favorites...

Thank you for making such lovely things Michelle. Please don't ever stop...

Starving Artist (and proud of it.)

A student asked me the other day, "Mrs. Wells, what amount of money would it take for you to never make art again?".

I thought about it, but not for long, because the answer was pretty clear: no amount.

He didn't believe me! "Come on, there has to be a number. Enough money that you could have whatever you want and never run out for the rest of your life...you know you'd take that."

Nope. Sorry. Not gonna do it.

What good would it be to travel wherever I want, and not be able to sketch what I see? What good would it be to have the most beautiful house, but not be able to decorate it with my own artistic vision? And most of all, what good would it be to give up the passion God has given me for money?

That's what the phrase "starving artist" is all about.

We do what you love, whether there is money or not.

**disclaimer: unless that means your family is starving as well. Then you have to sacrifise and work a side job**

Ps. A few other things money could not buy from me:

- my faith, my husband, my family...you know, the obvious ones. Oh, and probably chocolate.

Those are my thoughts today...enjoy your Friday!

 

 

 

Thursday's Alter Ego: Clemens Behr

After spending almost a year as a display coordinator at Anthropologie, I became mesmerized by installation art. Because that's what the displays were: temporary works of art installed in the space. It might seem difficult to put so much of yourself into a piece, knowing that soon it will be disassembled, but somehow it wasn't.

Clemens Behr does something I would love to do again - he transforms the environment around him into beautiful, yet temporary, works of art. Using found recycled objects and common building materials, Behrs draws inspiration from origami and spontaneous chance to create these amazing installations all over the world.

Maybe there will be some spontaneous installation work popping up in Lynchburg soon...who knows, maybe my alter ego will win out one day.

Do you have a favorite installation artist? Please share if you do!

Happy Thursday,