12 Artists of Christmas: Thursday, December 10th Special Offer.

12 Artists of Christmas

Paint Metal & Mud Art Gallery and Gifts

     December 5th - 18th  2015

          Celebrate the Season With a Different Artist Each Day!

        Enjoy Specials, Demonstrations and Surprises!

Today's Special:

Free Greeting Card by Michaela 
(if you tell us a joke!)

Beautiful Magnets at great prices!

Here is the full list of upcoming specials from our other artists.  Don't miss your chance to save on some on some wonderful local art, and meet the artist who made it!
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Dec 11th: Linda Sole                       Jewelry Demo.  10% off Linda's Jewelry & Cards.

Dec 12th: Raette Meredith             25% off Original Oil Paintings by Raette.

Dec 14th: Cheryl Ross                   25% off Cheryl's Floor Vases and Planters.

Dec 15th: Lois Sturgis                     20% off all Watercolor Prints by Lois.

Dec 16th: Pat Jones                          10% off All Pat Jones Jewelry.

Dec 17th: Francine Brown             Weaving Demo.  50% Off Francine's Woven Wall Art.

Dec 18th: Carri Sampson               20% off Mosaic Art by Carri. Raffle for Mosaic Ornament.

Happy Halloween, everyone! This piece by Michaela Eaves, The Tooth Fairy, will be winging its way to the shop in the next week or so. The original is watercolor and gouache on heavy hot press cotton paper. Originally started in a workshop, this piece ended up taking about 30 hours to complete.

Montana M stickers!

These stickers have just arrived! Pick them up at the shop for $3 each. They are 6"x4" high quality vinyl stickers can show your Montana pride in all kinds of places -- your car, your fridge, your kayak, your rocket...what, you don't put stickers on your rocket? Well, okay then, but surely you have a friend or relative that's moved from Montana and misses it. Designed by Michaela Eaves! (PS: The actual stickers don't have the artist's name on them -- it's just for internet sharing info.)

Hey, mudders! Michaela here! I got a great opportunity in Tacoma, Washington to do some live painting at the annual Art on the Ave event. There were about 20,000 people there, and I went in with a 48" x 48' piece of wood that I'd only prepped with a coat of dark purple paint. I didn't even know what I was going to paint! I worked from 11am until 7pm, and here's the painting I came up with. It was so much fun working with people stopping by. The festival organizers were great, and they thoughtfully set up an interactive area right next to mine where kids *and* adults got to do some painting of their own. Genius!

And the answer...

...to our first 'trivia' artist is none other than 

Michaela Eaves!

Photo by Alex Gauthier at alexgauther.com

Michaela is not only the artist of the great pieces you've seen at our gallery, she is also a busy graphic designer/illustrator.  She works in a wide variety of mediums, including gouache, acrylic, tile paints, glass paints, and collage materials.



Much of her freelance work has been for fantasy, childrens' illustration, horror, or just some crazy mix in between.  


She is well known not only for her art, but both her love and care of animals and her wonder/crazy sense of humor.

She also likes gingersnap cookies.

You can see more of her work at michaelaeaves.com.

ARTIST OF THE MONTH: Michaela Eaves

Merlot tree -- painted with merlot wine and ink pen.

Michaela Eaves is October's featured artist at Paint, Metal, and Mud. A variety of mediums are represented, from watercolor to acrylic to ink.  Themes are heavily nature-based.

Michaela works as a graphic designer and illustrator with a heavy emphasis on children's books and horror. In her spare time, she volunteers for handful of non-profits and mountain bikes, though most of her free time is spent with Buck, the world's best rottweiler.

MICHAELA EAVES: Art festival poster

Drawing done for an art festival poster focusing on pets.

MICHAELA EAVES: New work!

New work in progress: watercolor about 8x4 on heavy cold press paper. Done with four colors of paint: two browns, one blue, one bright orange. -- Michaela

MICHAELA EAVES: Painting on new material

Here's a painting I did on an ostrich egg -- salmon in migration.