Michele Ballantyne

Michele Ballantyne

Art and Life Blog


  • January 28, 2023

    Betty Franks Art Class Online

    Betty Franks Art Class Online

    It is never too late to learn something new! I have admired Betty Frank’s art for a long time and when I saw her course offering, I jumped at the chance to learn from her. I will let you know how it goes!

  • January 23, 2023

    Making a teal and scarlet wind chime/wall hanging.

    Almost finished with this teal blue and scarlet red wind chime / wall hanging! Featuring felted wool, obsidian shards, and beads. $100 tomorrow at Lunaria Gallery in Silverton.

  • January 13, 2023

    A little (very amateur) video of me making Valentine’s Day cards.

    A little (very amateur) video of me making Valentine’s Day cards.

    Here is a little very unprofessional video of me editing my AI art on Photoshop.

  • January 10, 2023

    Lovers Card for Valentine’s Day

    Lovers Card for Valentine’s Day

    Click here to see my card for sale online. This will also be for sale at Lunaria Gallery in Silverton, Oregon. Click here to see this card in my Zazzle store.

  • January 9, 2023

    My Goals for the Year

    My Goals for the Year

    We just finished a week with Teresa Haag coaching us on setting goals. We learned to set goals, then plan the way will will make them happen with a backwards perspective, It works like this:

  • January 7, 2023

    Death as an Advisor

    Death as an Advisor

    As I get older the reality of a limited lifetime looms larger in my mind. What do I still want to do? What do I want to share with the world?

  • January 6, 2023

    Valentine’s Day card #2

    Valentine’s Day card #2

    Valentine’s Day card bright and colorful full of hearts and flowers for your loved one!

  • January 5, 2023

    Valentine’s Day is almost here! Woot woot!

    Valentine’s Day is almost here! Woot woot!

    Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays so I decided to make some sweet Valentine’s Day’s cards! Here is the first one!

  • October 21, 2022

    All Laid Our and Ready to Felt

    All Laid Our and Ready to Felt

    This piece is ready to felt and will be going into my daughter’s apartment.

  • October 19, 2022

    New Project!

    New Project!

    My daughter Jess, who is in nursing school, asked me to create some art for the bare walls of her room. I am loving the new “assignment”.

  • October 11, 2022

    The One Who Remembers

    The One Who Remembers

    In the Solveig tribe this man has remembered things most do not. He wonders how his life would have been different if he had had this knowledge when he was a younger man. So he teaches ways of remembering, and how to explore the depths of one’s soul, hoping others will gain understanding earlier than he did. The elders gave him a new name: Minder.

  • October 8, 2022

    Making Images of Men using AI

    Making Images of Men using AI

    Here’s a wizened old guy. I love these handsome older men! I may create a bunch of them! Hahaha My sister Cheryl gave me feedback about what a chieftain should look like when building a character. He ought to look like he has fought a few battles, and has some scars. The older the man, […]

  • October 6, 2022

    Rich and Luscious Holiday Card

    Rich and Luscious Holiday Card

    This holiday card features rich colorful images of holiday gifts and fruit on autumn tones and real.

  • October 4, 2022

    Lusciously Rich Christmas Card Klimt Style

    Lusciously Rich Christmas Card Klimt Style

    Beautiful rich looking Christmas Card Klimt style

  • October 2, 2022

    More than our 5 Senses … Happiness, Depression

    More than our 5 senses … happiness, depression

  • September 26, 2022

    Work, work, work! Getting things ready for Christmas Card sales!

    Work, work, work!  Getting things ready for Christmas Card sales!

    Work, work, work! Getting things ready for Christmas Card sales!

  • September 23, 2022

    Which Would Make the Best Iconic Chieftain, and Why? You Vote in a Comment.

    Which Would Make the Best Iconic Chieftain, and Why?  You Vote in a Comment.

    Vote for who you think would make the best chieftain for the Solveig tribe of old Scandinavia and why. Make up a personality to go with the character if you like.

  • September 22, 2022

    Gorgeous in Blue and Gold Klimt style Christmas Tree

    Gorgeous in Blue and Gold Klimt style Christmas Tree

    This Christmas Card is made using artificial intelligence programming and my words to create a Gustav Klimt style Greeting card. I love the gold and colorful decorations on the trees. Each side of the card has a different Christmas tree.

  • September 21, 2022

    Gold and Green Christmas Card Klimt Style

    Gold and Green Christmas Card Klimt Style

    This Christmas Card is made using artificial intelligence programming and my words to create a Gustav Klimt style Greeting card. I love the gold and colorful decorations on the trees. Each side of the card has a different Christmas tree.

  • September 21, 2022

    Another Gorgeous Christmas Card I Made for You to Send to Someone You Love!

    Another Gorgeous Christmas Card I Made for You to Send to Someone You Love!

    This Christmas Card features an evening gathering in a snowy forest among the trees with glowing lights overhead. The art is artificial intelligence aided watercolor, and stylized to Alphonse Mucha style.

  • September 21, 2022

    Beautiful Christmas Card

    Beautiful Christmas Card

    This is a Christmas Card I made using AI on Midjourney bot on the app discord. This card is decorated with lights and features a community gathering in the snowy evening woods. Watercolor look in the style of Alphonse Mucha.

  • September 17, 2022

    Christmas stickers

    Christmas stickers

    Making stickers for Christmas sales! Another learning curve! Finding the right blank stickers, or finding the right print on demand site. Still working on it, but the Avery site will make them and it is cheaper per sticker when I buy them in bulk to sell, but that is … with the hope it will sell. On speculation, I would say. Here are some that will be for sale at Lunaria Gallery in December. 2″ x 2″. $6.00 each sheet. I am curious which sheets will sell best.

  • September 15, 2022

    Emma, Elder, Medicine Woman, Shaman, Crone, Beautiful!

    Emma, Elder, Medicine Woman, Shaman, Crone, Beautiful!

    This Christmas Card features watercolor pictures of Emma.  Emma, the wizened Elder is the Medicine Woman of the Solveig Tribe in old Scandinavia.  Her heart and soul are connected to the plants and to all of Creation.  She is a conduit and generator of healing for her tribe.  Here she is searching for roots to gather for medicine.

  • September 14, 2022

    Anna, Medicine Woman of the Solveig Tribe

    Anna, Medicine Woman of the Solveig Tribe

    This beautiful Christmas Card features the iconic character Anna, the beautiful red haired medicine woman of the ancient Solveig tribe in Scandinavia.  She stands in the snowy forest at night, with stylized snow falling.  Watercolor art.  Anna has the gift of compassion and mercy, making her the obvious choice as caregiver of the sick and afflicted.

  • September 13, 2022

    There are no Ugly Witches

    There are no Ugly Witches

    Tom Brown Jr, my Trackerschool instructor, says, “There are no ugly witches”. That is because the dark side knows that in order to entice, lure, and distract, there must be attractiveness. Attractiveness triggers desire. Attractiveness draws us in.

  • September 11, 2022

    Christmas Card with Rich Colors and Sparkling Lights at Dusk

    Christmas Card with Rich Colors and Sparkling Lights at Dusk

    Click here to see this card in my store.

  • September 9, 2022

    Christmas Card Alphonse Mucha Style

    Christmas Card Alphonse Mucha Style

    Alfons Maria Mucha, July 24, 1860 – 14 July 14, 1939 was known internationally as Alphonse Mucha. Mucha was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period. Mucha was best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. This Christmas Card is a digital watercolor rendition emulating the style of Alphonse Mucha, using Artificial Intelligence and me. Colorful and fantastical, Mucha, along with many other artists, choose to view and paint the world in rich painterly imaginative ways. Our own imaginations are no less able and we can look on the world around us with a unique perspective as did they,

  • September 9, 2022

    Merry Christmas Amalia!

    Merry Christmas Amalia!

    I was making this card and the bit of humor I recklessly threw in made me think of my Trackerschool sister Amalia who said I was funny. We had so much fun in one of the classes we took with Malcolm Ringwalt, he had to place a moratorium on all talking and laughing for one […]

  • September 8, 2022

    Throw Pillow Klimt Style Art … perhaps?

    Throw Pillow Klimt Style Art … perhaps?

    This stylized Christmas Tree throw pillow reflects the influence of the art of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Klimt was best known for his paintings of Women, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and her clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas throw pillow reflects Klimt’s style, a world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.

  • September 7, 2022

    Christmas Card so Colorful and Pretty!

    Christmas Card so Colorful and Pretty!

    This stylized Christmas Tree card reflects the influence of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Klimt was best known for his paintings of Women, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and her clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas Card reflects Klimt’s world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.

  • September 7, 2022

    Christmas Card with Tree, Klimt Style

    Christmas Card with Tree, Klimt Style

    This stylized Christmas Tree card reflects the influence of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna, Austria. Klimt was best known for his paintings of Women, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and her clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas Card reflects Klimt’s world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.

  • September 7, 2022

    Christmas Card featuring a Christmas Tree Gustav Klimt Style in Watercolor

    Christmas Card featuring a Christmas Tree Gustav Klimt Style in Watercolor

    This stylized Christmas Tree reflects the influence of Gustav Klimt who lived between 1862 and 1918 in Vienna. Klimt was best known for his paintings of woman, and the interesting backgrounds featuring gold and other colorful shapes all around the subject and on their clothing. Klimt took the everyday and painted it extraordinarily. We can choose to look at the ordinary things in our own lives with the same awe and imagination as Klimt, and enrich our world with fantasy and glorious appreciation. This Christmas Card reflects Klimt’s world of delicious delight with rich colors and painterly impressionism.

  • September 7, 2022

    Aprons for a Gift?

    Aprons for a Gift?

    Cook and bake in style in this apron with a watercolor painterly forest scene print decorating the front. Beautiful.

  • September 6, 2022

    Santa Card Impressionism Mucha Watercolor Style 😀😀😀❤️❤️❤️

    Santa Card Impressionism Mucha Watercolor Style 😀😀😀❤️❤️❤️

    (Inside card) “Please, Please, Please, Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Happy New Year!!!” (On the back) “What does Christmas mean to you? It’s up to you! Who creates Christmas in your life? You Do! May you create the most loving and Merry Christmas EVER!”

  • September 6, 2022

    A Beautiful Christmas Card for Your Special Boy!

    A Beautiful Christmas Card for Your Special Boy!

    Here is the card I made today that would be a beautiful Christmas or Holiday card for a special boy. Inside the card is a description of this young boy’s character and his name, as well as what his name means in the “old Scandinavian” culture. This is Hoyt. The name Hoyt means: Descended of […]

  • September 3, 2022

    Fynnor, Wife of the Chieftain

    Fynnor, Wife of the Chieftain

    This is Fynnor, Wife of the Chieftain. Taught from childhood the ways of her people, Fynnor’s wisdom and tact calms others. Aware when help is needed, Fynnor works behind the scenes, subtly creating the best possible outcomes.

  • September 2, 2022

    Snow Queen Amalie on a mug!

    Snow Queen Amalie on a mug!

    This Christmas mug is decorated with an image of the Snow Queen Amalie. The snow queen Amalie embodies all that is strong, powerful and wise while at the same time knowing the pain and difficulty of life. Amalie reaches out to the poor and downtrodden, offering comfort and understanding to the suffering, with a promise of a better tomorrow.

  • August 31, 2022

    New Paths in Creativity: Artificial Intelligence Art

    New Paths in Creativity: Artificial Intelligence Art

    The snow queen Amalie embodies all that is strong, powerful and wise while at the same time knowing the pain and difficulty of life. Amalie reaches out to the poor and downtrodden, offering comfort and understanding to the suffering, promising a better tomorrow.

  • March 13, 2022

    Snippet from my new book “Changes”!

    Snippet from my new book “Changes”!

    After listening intently for at least 30 minutes, I just had to look.

  • October 19, 2019

    Leafy “Cape” Collar of Merino and Silk

    Leafy “Cape” Collar of Merino and Silk

    This new piece is almost finished, with just some dark brown stitching to add for emphasis here and there.

  • January 26, 2023

    Finished! Jeweled toned wind chime / wall hanging.

    Finished!  Jeweled toned wind chime / wall hanging.

    Wind chime

  • January 16, 2023

    More Love through Valentine’s Day cards.

    More Love through Valentine’s Day cards.

    More love through Valentine’s Day cards.

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