Pretty good representation of 2024 if u ask me
1. Sunset at Larabee
2. Biggest Painting Of My Life So Far
3. Pretty sick sunrise
4. The pose of the year
5. Julian having French genetics
6. Trail race in Big Sur
7. Julian captured me being absolutely fierce
8. The Happy Four
9. Poppies on canvas
10. Really buff guys running my birthday race
11. Dipper at her best
12. Obligatory cranberry bog pic
13. (One to grow on) sketch of my childhood home's backyard.
Lots of growth, lots of the same shit every day, here's to another crazy year ahead
Idk here's a photo dump of how 27 looks so far
1. Portrait by @rae.portraits (thanks homie)
2. Color/composition study from painting class
3. Cool plant !!
4. I am the stockroom coordinator at one of my favorite shops in Seattle now and this box fit on my head perfectly
5. The SUN
6. TWO RAINBOWS
7. Dipper, our new kitty, lookin like a dumbass
8. Digital self portrait (and new icon for my art account @scared.cowboy 💛)
9. Best pic I've ever seen of Julian and I, taken in the middle of my second ever half marathon
10. One of my favorite activities aka going for walks w Julian while he wears his red shirt and then taking sick photos of the red shirt and plants
Thx hope everyone's doing well
27
1. Finishing my second half marathon/first trail half w Julian over at Lake Crescent
2. Knit frog from Mom atop wooden lizard, Clarence
3. Splitting my singular piece of ube cake amongst five loved ones on birthday proper
4. All these salmon swam to the Ballard Locks on Monday just to throw a party in my honor :'-) they're my favorite flavor :'-)
A couple faces, a lot of blue, a happy Thursday practice
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Today I finished painting the biggest canvas I have ever painted. I wanted to do a project like this for multiple years, but never had the gumption to try. Frankly, I was intimidated by the scale and also by the thought that I would have nothing to fill it with. It took my partner finally saying “fuck it, let’s just Get You The Canvas” a month ago to get me to set it up.
I’ve been thinking a lot about intentionality, about responsibility, about radical acceptance. How helpful it is to have community members who want the best for you and encourage you to see yourself the way you want to be seen, but how your responsibility is to show up for yourself in the moments when you truly, truly know you want something. I think the bulk of what I am learning now is: if I know I know, then I know. And if I do not act, I will swallow myself with questions as to Why Not until I do, finally, with a True Blue Sigh Of Relief.
My canvas is 3 feet wide and 4 feet tall. Thank you J, and thank you everyone I texted with process photos who told me they liked it along the way. Encouragement at this stage of my journey is Oh So Necessary 💛
#seattleartist #acrylicpainting #bigcanvas #abstractart #abstractpainting #colorstudy #color #acrylic
I entered 2023 with a feeling of excitement that maybe had to do with skate skiing for two hours on the evening of The Ball Drop, and maybe had to do with the amount of love that entered my life during the difficult time of my last few months of 2022, and maybe had to do with the impending year truly being ripe with potential for things Different Than The Last Two, which have both been a blur. Whatever it was, I’m gonna hang on to that.
May you find your own momentum, gumption, strength and softness as you begin your calendar year. May you give yourself the break of using your imagination for good, for wellness, for joyful futures. May you have fuel from those around you, and may you return it!!
✨New stuff on the site✨
I suddenly but very enthusiastically began painting in an old book the other day, and have added a new page (hriffe.com/book) to archive the pieces as I go ! After so many sweet folks enjoyed looking through my old collage books in November, I’m excited to be making another to be flipped through at future events ☀️
Teeny tiny paintings to give away at tomorrow’s art market! If you’re in Seattle, come hang at the Labour Temple during @belltownartwalk for art/music/community and/or vibes ✨
Seattle is covered in smoke and I am not used to living where the land burns like this. I’ve been thinking about a line I heard in a podcast I can’t place - that “we all grow up with our own disasters.” I know how to feel safe in a snowstorm, but this is new and shaky ground. It feels like there’s an important life lesson in here.
(And a call to climate action.)
Anyway, last weekend I ran away to get some fresh air, here are some pictures of that and the pots I’m learning to throw. If you’re in the middle of an unfamiliar disaster, remember you’ve weathered your own storms before!
Thanks, September. Thanks, Massachusetts.
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This month is my favorite of the year. 8 people that I love dearly, myself included, were born within this month (or close enough to it to be a Virgo, and therefore included in my count ♍️). This time around, as I turned 25, some personal trials brought me home to Mass for a few weeks to recover. It was a strange bittersweetness - to feel enough grief to need the flight home, but in exchange receive the gift of spending birthday month with so many of my loves on the east coast. I am still absorbing the lessons.
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As I move into an uncertain next phase of my life, Autumn could not be more welcome to my watery heart. Thank you to those who have caught me in these last few weeks. Thanks my September babies 💛 May we move forward with gentle steps!
Hello, I made u a heartbreak noodle 🍜 which happens to be what we are serving the day the moon slips into Cancer. Enjoy some improv and wrap yourself in a blanket, for all our sakes 💛
