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My review of Bestiary by Elise Paschen has been electronically published by Rattle. I feel honored to have the opportunity to make a small contribution to this great poetry magazine. Review here.

Bay Wave
Angela Micheli Otwell, 2010
12 x 36 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Prints available at Redbubble.
Original $750.

The overwintering monarch butterflies in Santa Cruz in December 2009 and the birth of beautiful Madison Rose to friends in January 2010 provided the inspiration for the music.

Skip the vegetable peeler. This is faster and easier.

Still Life with Reflection
A.M. Otwell, 2009
14 x 11 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Prints available at RedBubble.
Original $1200.

If you are interested in the original, please contact me via email (amo@amopage.com), as I have not had time to add this to the art for sale page and likely won’t get to it for a while.

A Pensive Moment
A.M. Otwell, 2009
14 x 11 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
Prints available at RedBubble.

This time I managed to get a digital image large enough to make a small poster available along with the other options (matted print, laminated print, greeting card, framed print, etc.). If there’s a lot of interest in this format, I’ll certainly try to go back and get suitable images of older paintings. If you are interested in a poster of a particular image, please let me know!

. . . just not a shape that is easily covered. We have had various temporary window coverings for our round window. I’ve had this idea for a while, but it took me a very long time to gather the materials and put it together.

I found (eventually) 3 old doilies that were the right size. Over the course of several days, I put each one in a freezer bag with a mixture of white glue and water and squished it to ensure complete and relatively even saturation and spread it out on waxed paper to dry. This stiffening process is permanent. If you think you might want to reverse this process later, there are reversible stiffening methods. I let each one dry completely before stiffening the next.

And then I forgot to take any more pictures. Oops. But after they were all dry and stiff, I stacked them in order of descending size and used a combination of more white glue and some haphazard sewing/ties to attach them together. The stains bothered me a bit, so I took some white paint and tried to make it all blend together by daubing white paint here and there to both cover some of the worst spots and balance the differences in hue.

And then I put it up. I’m pretty happy with the result.

This has been sitting in my camera for a while, but we eat a salad like this about once a week. The particular ingredients vary some but not as much as you might think.

Shredded cheddar cheese, bag o’ lettuce, celery, parmesan cheese, canned olives, green chiles, beets, sunflower seeds, homemade salad dressing, bell pepper, onion, boiled shredded chicken, boiled free-range eggs, and a miniscule amount of home grown grape tomatoes.