Campfire Songs

Campfire SongsMelissa Lakey is an artist and illustrator based in Joshua Tree, California, where the windows of her art studio look out onto the Mojave Desert. Her colorful mixed media paintings explore the magic of the American Southwest, as well as night, summertime, road trips, solitude, and friendship. She creates work based on both real memories and imaginary places shed like to visit swimming, dreaming, in the sunshine and under the moonlight. About this

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being mermaids

She has to share them

ethereal context

homemade Apple Cider Doughnuts are out of this world

All pieces are handmade

She lives in a little house with a blue door and an orange cat

She has been experimenting to incorporate the implicit expressions of the East into the Western painting methods

her flexible approach makes vegan cooking easy

For this series I worked on creating new grounds from various clays and rock and even crushed eggshells

Morning gratitude

Embracing imperfection has become a philosophy I incorporate into my work and life