Amusement Park *GIVE AWAY*

I have been so busy with my work for Lucia Apparel these past few weeks that I completely forgot to do my monthly give away!! This month, in honor of Portland's annual Rose Festival having its first ever artist pavilion, my give away will be from my "Amusement Parks" for around the world Series. Last week when I was putting together some new pieces for the Rose Festival, I realized that I have quite a few photos from amusement parks. All of them with a completely different feel from one another. There is my black and white Japan series taken with Neopan 1600, my Seattle waterfront photos, Holga images from Santa Monica Pier in LA, and my holga images from Portland's Oaks Park.

Please leave a comment by Wednesday June 3rd letting me know which one you like best and the winner will receive their favorite one. You can view the entire series on my etsy site.








Also check out the Lucia Apparel blog, they wrote an artist preview about me today!!

Our lovely Ace!

My favorite hotel ever is the Ace Hotel. I have stayed at both the Seattle and the Portland locations and love them both. I am obviously quite partial to our own Ace here in Portland though. They are the best places for photoshoots. A blog I follow regularly, sfgirbybay, just did a brief write up about all of the Ace Hotels, check it out!

Also here are a few of my photos from over the years at the Ace.

Portland - Ace Hotel

Seattle - Ace Hotel

Digital Rose Festival!

Here are my first images from the Rose Festival. These are my digital images. I haven't dropped my film photos off yet at the lab because I plan on going back a few more times. I already have three rolls, but I need more from every aspect. I will also be taking more digital of the event, but for now....

Rose Festival

This year there will be an artist pavilion. Come by and say hi Saturday May 23rd, 11a-11p. Many different artist each day for the duration of the Festival! This event is being put on by the lovely creators of Handmade NW, details on their website.

I will be focusing my art display on my recent Amusement Park photos taken in Seattle, LA, Oaks Park here in Portland and Japan. As an added bonus, I have been asked to photograph the event in my own personal style, of cross-processed film taken with my holga and nikon film camera's to be used as promotion for next year. I cant wait to get started, the weather looks so promising!!

www.handmadenw.com
www.mishaashton.com

Happy Sunny Friday!!!

Oh what a glorious day. The sun is shinning, I am all ready and rearing to go for a super uber ENORMOUS Clearance SALE tomorrow at the Art Hop and have I ever mentioned how much I love Happy Hour client meetings!!!

Sherman Oaks, CA - Holga

Today I met with a wonderful couple, Melissa and Michael, to go over the rough draft of their wedding announcements. We are very excited about the direction they are going and I should be finishing them up early next week. Our meeting took place at my favorite Portland Bar, the Bonfire. If you have never been their, I highly recommend their happy hour menu. Served everyday from 2-7pm.

Burbank Airport, CA - Holga

As for the Art Hop... I will be located on the 21st block of Alberta from 11-6pm. I will also be sharing my booth with my good friend Brenda Dunn. Brenda and I share studio space and we are having a huge sale to clear out all of last years art stock.

Happy Friday, have a wonderful sunny weekend!!!

Wearable Art!

For some reason I have never done well about keeping my etsy shop up to date with my jewelry and belt buckles. I would have to say it is in part due to the fact that I dont like taking product shots of my own work, its hard to detach myself from it. I spent all day yesterday photographing product and updating my shop. I still have a few more product shots to take, but its getting there!


Sunday I had a great time selling my work at Crafty Wonderland. I was a bit concerned it may not be busy, being Mothers Day and all. I was happily suprised by the turn out though, not as busy as most months, but a great turn out all in all. This Saturday I will be at Art Hop on Alberta from 11-6pm.


I also updated my website with my new holga images. My next big project this week will be photographing all of my graphic design work and getting it up on my website.

Palm Trees

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of California?! Well for me it is sunshine and palm trees and I definitely saw plenty of that in Los Angeles. I have finished uploading all of my holga images of LA to my flickr account. Keep in mind when you are flipping through that my flickr account is for ALL of my images, where as my website and blog are for my most favorite. I tend to over shoot everything and I love it!




On another note, I had an interview last week that just got published on Portlands very own, DIY Alert. Make sure to check out the rest of the lovely artist interviews while you are at it!

Santa Monica Pier

YAY!!! I got my LA holga rolls back today. Oh the excitement!!! Im only going to show them one roll at a time to keep everyone in suspense. Los Angeles was sooo fun and I wish I had more time for photo taking. All of the beautiful sun, palm trees and colours. You can see the whole roll on my flickr account!

Digital LA!

Had a great time in LA, at the Unique Los Angeles show, visiting friends and taking photos around town. I am hoping to have my many rolls of film developed by early next week, i cant wait!! : ) In the mean time, I have been going through my digital photos that I took for my stock photography. I hope they hold you over until the film photos are ready!!

LA was all about the TEXTURE!

Unique Los Angeles!!

Today is the first day in two of Unique Los Angeles! We had set up and a vendor party last night, which was such great fun! I am looking forward to the long day ahead. There are a few other Portlanders in the show to check out as well!

e.soule

Two Guitars

Amy Olson Jewelry

I cant wait to start sharing my pictures of LA! Thursday we went to Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach for a fun filled day of picture taking and sun bathing!! Stay tuned! : )