Storefronts show Farmingdale artist's work
Photo credit: Newsday/Danielle Finkelstein | Michelle Carollo, 31, shows Newsday some of the artwork she is currently working on at her studio at the Carriage House in East Islip. (July 13, 2012)
Michelle Carollo wakes up, puts on a rock band T-shirt and pair of tattered jeans, tucks her jet black hair under a favorite hat and makes a cup of coffee just the way she likes -- extra cream and sugar.
This is when she does her best work.
The Farmingdale resident goes to her work space -- sometimes her studio in Queens and for about three months this year, the Carriage House in Islip,...