March 4, 2010 (be sure to march forth with some good thing you want to do today) I snuck a few new pieces up just now! Thanks for stopping by to have a look, I appreciate you and not only that, something good is gonna happen to you today! I'm very happy to now be offering my good and sturdy works at M-U-S-H in Hollywood, California. Speaking of nicknames, Mush is Michelle van der Heijden's childhood nickname. Mush is located at 5651 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California.

Thanks for visiting my good and sturdy art gallery. My art is 95% trash, made from stuff I find on the ground, at yard sales and thrift stores, broken stuff and stuff friends send me.  This art is made in my studio at Art Queen in Joshua Tree, California, assisted by my feral kitty Inky.

Inky is on the lookout for Gray Kitty, peeking out her little cat door in my studio at Art Queen. I didn't name her Inky, Randy Polumbo named her Inky. I like the name Inky because that was what my Grandma Halloway called my Grandpa Halloway (the Rev. John A. Halloway--also known as "Jack" and also known as "Inky"), I'm not sure why she called him Inky.

When we were young I nicknamed my brother Mark, "Binky" and that name has stuck. Sometimes he's just "Bink". My little sister Shelley called me "Beeble", which evolved from my initials, SME, to Smeeble, to Beeble. I regret the nickname I used to have for Shelley and have apologized to her several times for this unfortunate nickname (hee hee), thankfully it did not stick. I got to name Shelley after a little friend I had in school when I was 6.

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HAPPY DREAMS ANGEL

14 " x 12.5" $150

Ingredients: board from my airstream trailer; frame wood is from that picket fence i found in venice, calif, years ago; tin foil from a long ago thrift store in yucca valley, calif; threads from my old towel; old belt from a friend; wire from sandy crouse of ohio; pull tabs from cans, love from shari

 

I want the happy dreams angel

 

GOOD THINGS ARE ALWAYS HAPPENING AROUND HERE

10.5" x 20" $200

Ingredients: piece of cabinet from my airstream trailer; old ceiling from my studio at art queen (frame); turquoise pieces from the yucca valley swap meet and the hospital auxilary thrift store in JT, calif; glitter from the frenchettes! and left mysteriously in my studio at the art queen valentine's day party; shells from friends like ramona otto and sandy crouse and from some sales; wire from a yard sale, love from shari

I want this mermaid

 

DOG BLESS AMERICA

  

15" x 18" $85

Ingredients: wooden fiberboard flag from hospital auxiliary thrift store in joshua tree; wood for nose from my studio; eyes from ebay; wire on back from sandy crouse of ohio; pull tabs from cans and from the ground; cap from chinese medicine; perals, ha i wrote perals, i mean pearls from the YV swap meet and yard sales, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Lynn Whittenburg in Calhoun, GA)

 

WHEE

5" x 5.5" $50

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; picket fence from the streets of venice, calif; old blinds from my cabin; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio; wire from the yv swap meet; pointed ends of golf tees from ramona otto, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Deb Lacusta in Los Angeles, CA)

 

DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY

  

6" x 6" $75

Ingredients: board from art queen storage; glass i found mostly on the dirt road in back of art queen and the parking lot of the JT saloon next door; beads from a sale; sequins from sandy crouse; little metal thing also found on a walk, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Mel Lenington in Santa Monica, CA)

 

DOG BLESS AMERICA

4" x 6.5" $60

Ingredients: board from AQ storage; cedar block (dog nose) from ramona otto; cap from a very small glue container; eyes from a JT thrift store; wire from the YV swap meet, love from shari

SOLD (thank you, someone is gonna surprise someone)

LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE

 

  

12" x 10"

commission for Linda Bailey of Morongo Valley, CA

 

 

HAVE A GRATEFUL DOG DAY

12" x 14.5"

commission for Don Swanson and his son August

 

last weeks:

DOG, CREATING THE UNIVERSE

 

  

5" x 8" $75

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio and also from pam and sue's estate sale in yucca valley, calif; wire from the swap meet pink pebble from the frenchette's of yucca valley, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Andrea Broszio in Berlin, Germany)

 

DOGGY BEACH

5.5" x 5.5" $70

Ingredients: board from a picture in a frame someone gave me; things found on the ground; wire from sandy crouse; sand from art queen; eyes from a thrift store in JT years ago; scraps from my collections; letters from friends and sales, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Barbara Arienti in Laguna Niguel, CA)

  

ROCKSTAR

  

12" x 12" $150

Ingredients: board and frame wood from constance walsh of pioneertown, calif; old paint brush from a friend or a sale; my old lipstick cap; beads from angelview thrift store in yucca valley, calif; game from the humane society thrift store in yucca valley, calif; wire on back from sandy crouse of ohio, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Danielle Haber in San Diego, CA)

 

WE'RE PERFECTJUST THE WAY WE ARE

  

5.5" x 6.5" $75

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins and wire from sandy crouse of ohio; my old paint brushes; string and scraps of wood from my collections; smashed bottle cap and old smashed battery from the ground in the desert; string from an estate sale, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Nancy Edridge)

 

  

HANG LOOSE CALIFORNIA

  

13.5" x 9" and 9" x 9" $200

Ingredients: board from art queen storage; frame wood from my old ceiling at my studio at art queen; pebbles (noses) from the sand at Art Queen; little pieces of wood cut for the dog nose, from my collections; old dog leash chain (on back), love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Jane Wise)

 

 

LOVE BUG

5.5" x 5" $50

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio and also from pam and sue's estate sale in yucca valley, calif; wire from the yucca valley swap meet; pencil tips from another project and originally from the swap meet in kansas city, kansas; pipe cleaners from the variety store long ago in bellport, ny; black sparkly rock from the desert, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Jamie Frey in Meadowbrook, PA)

 

IT'S FUN TO JUMP IN THE BACK YARD

4.5" x 7" $85

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio and also from pam and sue's estate sale in yucca valley, calif; wire also from sandy; pebble and little piece of green glass from the the sand at art queen; little pieces of wood (dog noses) from my boxes of wood scraps, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Deb Lacusta in Los Angeles, CA)

 

 

I KNOW WORRYING WORKS 'CAUSE EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER WORRIED ABOUT HAS NEVER HAPPENED

4" x 7" $60

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio wire from the swap meet; eraser from a pencil (nose); piece of some old blinds from my cabin, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Chris Myung in New Jersey)

 

MOTH OF HAPPINESS

8" x 5" $60

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen;wire from sandy crouse; broken car window from the ground; i found that piece of tire on a walk down my dirt road in morongo valley; twisties from carrots from jaime organic farms; glitter also from sandy crouse, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Patti Neighmond in Los Angeles, for her daughter studying bugs at UC Berkeley)

 

  

SOMETIMES I NEED A NEW PERSPECTIVE

  

5" x 5" $50

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio; wire from the swap meet; pipe cleaner also from sandy; scraps of wood from my collections, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Carla Kaplan in Boston, MA)

 

LIFE IS A HAPPY LITTLE DANCE

5.5" x 7.5" $70

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio and also from pam and sue's estate sale in yucca valley, calif; wire from sandy crouse; badminton birdy from a yard sale or thrift store somewhere; old nails from the old wood i find in the desert; wood scraps from my collections; found piece of plastic from the ground in the desert, love from shari

 

SOLD (thank you Carol Chernikoff in Ithaka, NY)

 

I'M PERFECT JUST THE WAY I AM

CAT: "ME TOO"

  

4" x 5.5" $50

Ingredients: old ceiling from my studio at art queen; sequins from sandy crouse of ohio wire from the swap meet; scraps of wood, etc, from my little collections; eraser (cat nose) from some pencil, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Chris Myung in New Jersey for her daughter, who is perfect just the way she is!)

 

GOOD THINGS ARE ALWAYS HAPPENING AROUND HERE

5.5" x 17" $140

Ingredients: board from art queen storage; old blinds from my cabin; shells from sales and friends; chord from something; those lovely pink aquarium rocks from the frenchettes of yucca valley; rhinestones from the yucca valley swap meet; wire from sandy crouse, love from shari

SOLD (thank you Don Swanson who I met at Pappy and Harriet's and who lives in Milpitas, CA)

 

 

COLLABORATIONS BY SHARI ELF, JIMMY BUSTER AND RYAN ERSKINE (MY NEW BAND, THE KITTENS)

  

HAPPY

BY SHARI ELF, JIMMY BUSTER AND RYAN ERSKINE

  

4.5" x 6" $45

I want this

i think that is a sand eel made by jimmy and that shark bit the happy faced man by accident but he is taking him ashore to get help and there he will find all those jewels on the beach which the sand eel has no use for but just likes to look at

 

THIS WAY TO THE FUN

BY SHARI ELF, JIMMY BUSTER AND RYAN ERSKINE

5.5" x 5.t5" $45

I want this

jimmy and ryan made that lovely outer space scene, i added the mouse and made the spaceship, and put those words on the piece of wood someone put there.

  

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN

BY SHARI ELF, JIMMY BUSTER AND RYAN ERSKINE

  

5.5" x 8.25" $50

SOLD (thank you Megan Crowder in Columbus, IN)

we like the way this one evolved to look like candy and happy things

 

GO GIRL, OR GOD IS GREAT OR GOOD GRIEF OR SOMETHING

BY SHARI ELF, JIMMY BUSTER AND RYAN ERSKINE

5" x 6" $45

I want this

we worked on 3 at a time, passing them around after we'd spent a few minutes on a piece, keeping the cycle going til we felt we were done. i like doing art with friends, it's like a game.

 

 

 

Galleries of Feb 2010