Melanie See

@seemomster.bsky.social

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Artist. Wife. Mother of two adult sons. Feminist.

An older white woman raising a martini glass. The martini is garnished with cucumber.
Princess Leia smiling.
A shelf in a refrigerator with a large pitcher filled with greenish yellowish fluid. Next to it is a bottle of apple juice.
An older white woman standing with her rollator. There is a sign on the rollator. On the sign is a yellow crown with a big red X over it. Her tee shirt is printed with an upraised fist holding a sunflower. The text says “Ukrainian Witches Unite!”
Older woman with a rollator. On the front of the rollator is a poster. On the poster is a crown with a huge red X through it. The woman is wearing a black tee that says “Ukrainian Witches Unite!”
An older woman wearing a hat and a tee that says: “Ukrainian Witches Unite!” She’s standing with a rollator. On the front is a poster of large yellow crown with a huge red X across it.
An older white woman wearing glasses and a ball cap. Her tee says “Rage consume me” above a drawing of a cute kitten holding a bouquet of flowers. She looks exhausted…because she is.
Beautiful mixed woods. Trees pictured are oak, tulip poplar, liquid amber, Tupelo. It is green, golden and fresh, with incredible blue sky showing through the “sky holes”. I am incredibly fortunate.
A pair of yellow peony blooms. One is in the bright sun, the other is slightly shaded. The peony foliage surrounding the blooms is a deep, healthy green. Peony time is short, but glorious.
An older white woman wearing glasses. She has short gray hair. She is wearing a white tee shirt. There is a drawing of a fluffy kitten carrying g a bouquet of flowers. Above the kitten is text that says: Rage Consumes Me.
A gray-haired woman holds two postcards. She is wearing a tee that has a drawing of Baba Yaga’s house.) 14 more postcards are displayed on the table in front of her. All have a different image on them, including a drawing of a crown with the “no” symbol, a clothesline filled with pink slips, an upside down US flag, and a male mallard with a bandaged leg. (A lame duck.)
A postcard with a drawing of Donald Trump as a hand puppet. Caption says “Whose Puppet?”
Nine postcards. Images are, left-right, too to bottom: Sunflowers encircling the Ukrainian flag, Sunflowers against a blue sky, a portrait of Denali, a muskrat chewing on the constitution; there is a. If red “no symbol across him, an inside die US flag, pink bubbles on a pink background, “Pink Slip”, pink slips on a clothesline, and a mallard drake with a bandaged leg.
Left to right, tip to bottom: 1) A garland of flowers encircling the Ukrainian flag. 2) Sunflowers backed by blue sky 3) Denali 4) A muskrat eating the constitution with a “no” symbol over him 5) An upside-down US Flag 6) Pink Bubbles 7) Pink Slip! 8) Pink slips on a laundry line 9) Mallard duck with a bandage on his leg (lame duck)
A USPS pre-stamped postcard. The postage is a mallard duck. Next to the postage is handwritten word: “LAME!”
Three postcards. One says “Pink Slip!” In varying shades of pink. One is yellow sunflowers against a blue sky. One is pink bubbles on a pink background. Also in the picture, colored pencils and a couple of erasers.
A painting of a house on chicken legs looking quizcally at a young man standing in a forest clearing by a fire. He has a black cat on his shoulders.
Yellow and orange sunflowers form a banner.
A silver-gray tabby with her head buried in an older woman’s armpit.
An orange and red heart. A black cat is hanging from the top of the heart.
Poster of children climbing in playground equipment. Text says “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
A yellow banana slug smiling at a large yellow, red, and orange plaid heart that seems to be floating mid air. You can’t see the iridescence in his trail, but it’s there! Wish I’d taken a video…oh well. An iPhone pic it is!
A cartoon. Two men labeled JD and Elon are in the front seat of a car. Elon is driving. Donald Trump is in the back seat with a steering wheel. Elon Musk has a word bubble that says: “So cute! He thinks he’s steering…” Cartoon was drawn by Mike Lucovich and appeared in the Atlantic Journal-Constitution
Michael Caine as Scrooge in AMuloet Christmas Carol
A photograph of an orange rose. It was the last rose of the season in my garden.
A mother, father, and adult son at Suomenlinna.
Sunrise. The sky is blue, orange, yellow and pink. The water reflects these colors.
A silver tabby with deep green eyes.
A large baby quilt. The main fabric reminds me of late 1960s/early 1970s psychedelic art. The border is strips of batik fabrics sewn in rainbow colors.
Michael Caine as Acrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carol.
A painting of a moss-covered rock illuminated by a ray of sunshine. The moss hass produced red filaments with little puns knobs on top; the moss’s fruiting bodies. Greens, yellows, and deep, dark green, with touches of orange red.
Abstracted woodland on a sunny day. This painting has a dreamlike quality to it. The best of golden beech and hickory trees in their fall glory, with the sun on them, and a cloudless blue sky behind. I finished this the day my friend John died from colon cancer. He was in his 40s; no family history. He was one of my biggest cheerleaders. So I named it after him.
An early morning NC beach scene. It is low tide. The sand is dark and wet. The tidal pools reflect the morning sky. There are storm clouds in the distance. It is raining out over the water. The rain came in quickly; I got wet.
An impressionistic painting of the woods outside a window in my home. It’s early in the day and sunlight is slanting through the early summer foliage. Painting is primarily greens and blues with touches of lemon yellow. The tree trunks are a dark. Blue sky peeps through the heavy canopy.
A painting of a blue and green dragon in their cave. Dragon has decorated a huge stalactite with jewels, pearls, bracelets,and all manner of sparkly treasure. Dragon has placed candles all over the stalactite and is in the process of lighting the candles by breathing fire at them. There are piles of treasure all over the floor.
A crow looking at a ball of variegated yarn. The yarn is a mix of rose, purple, with lavender. The crow and the ball of yarn in an amorphous place; golden light shifting to lavender and purple. The crow has their head tilted so they can see the yarn. The crow’s beak is open…is the crow perplexed? Pleased? Curious? Content?
A fairy with lavende-blue hair, green skin, and somewhat tattered blue-green wings. The fairy is dressed in knee-high leather boots, reddish-pink pants with cargo pockets, a magenta shirt, a leather vest. Over her shoulder is a red-brown sack containing bulky things. (Tonsils, one assumes.) The sack is a brighter red at the bottom.
A watercolor painting of the sky and sea. The sky is a deep ultramarine blue, shading to very pale blue at the horizon. There are cumulus and cirrus clouds in the sky. The ocean is deep blue, gray green, and white foam. There is a rocky outcrop out in the ocean the water has broken over the rock and is running down in white rivulets.
Cliffs and the Pacific ocean washing against them and breaking into foam. The cliffs are brown and gray, the ocean is a deep blue with white foam, the sky is light blie with a few gray clouds. In the foreground there are some succulent plants; they are primarily green with a few touches of red.
A large abalone shell, a fossil of a clump of bivalves, and a dragon plaque. The plaque is made from red clay. The dragon is looking over their shoulder. The plaque is a terracotta color and is unglazed. Also pictured: a votive candle with cars on it.
An Earth Spirit, who manifests as sentient rocks, raising their champagne glass. They are drinking a Kir Royale. The Spirit is covered in lichen and moss. Their eyes and tears appear to be amethysts. They have a cap of violets on one side of their head. Primary colors are browns and greens, with touches of purple. The Kir Royale is cherry red.
The sun is rising over the ocean. The sky is pink, lavender, orange, yellow, and a very light greenish blue. The ocean waves are a darm blue in the shadows of the waves and silvery blur on the tops. The sand where the the water has just retreated reflects the colors of the sky one tone deeper. The wet sand is almost black.
A horned orange-red creature with yellow eyes is sitting at a bar or table with a martini in front of them. The creature is resting their head on the back of their hand. Their posture indicates dejection. The martini has three olives in it.
A square abstract painting done on acrylics. Primarily blue and white, with touches of deep ultramarine and yellow. The center and lower right side are dominated by a large frothing mass. Almost cloud-like. The left quarter has upright strokes that almost reach the top of the painting. They are a dimmer blue.
A watercolor painting of a forest waterfall. The bright water catches a gleam of sunshine; the rest is shaded by the trees. Moss and lichen coat the large boulders and small rocks.
A red-orange dragon (demon?) sitting at a bar somewhere with a martini in front of them. Creature looks somewhat defeated. I think they will have more than one martini.
A sketch of Dragon holding Cat in their paw Dragon is peering intently at Cat. Neither beast has shared their name with me. Yet.
Fred Rogers with Daniel Striped Tiger. Daniel is perched atop a scale model of King Friday and Queen Sara Saturday’s castle.
An older white woman wearing a tee that says “Do something either your life that will make a mediocre white man angry” and holding a “feminist as F*ck” coffee mug.
A cocktail table with a martini on it. In the background is a rocking chair with a lumbar pillow with the letters AAAAAAAHHHHH on it. Existential scream.
An antique mahogany cocktail table with some Mark Hewitt pottery bowls and a martini on it. One of the bowls has seashells in it. Another, elongated pennies. Mother called this a coffee table…but we use it for cocktails. It’s a library table my father cut down in the 1960s.
A cocktail table with some decorative bowls and a martini sitting on it. One of the bowls holds seashells. One holds elongated Pennie’s. In the background is a rocking chair with a quilt draped across the back. On the seat of the rocking chair is a red-orange lumbar pillow with black capital letters that read AAAAAAAHHHHHH. Rather captures my mood these days. Can’t remember if I bought that pillow eight years ago…or in 2020.