ARTIST JOURNAL | Notes from the studio
Inspiration, new work, and stories about life and travel.
Jet Lag
Þingvellir National Park in Iceland I have 24 unfinished draft blog posts going back to 2013. Some of these are just simple scribbles, notes of topics that I wanted to share or explore further. A few are semi-outlined. None are anywhere...
Bon Voyage + An Update of Sorts
The Wave | Mixed Media Painting on Paper by Melanie Biehle Vacation time is here, and we couldn't be more ready. This afternoon the Adventure Club will hop on a plane to Reykjavík. The first place we go after we land is the Blue Lagoon. We wouldn't...
Poolside Inspiration: Water I Want To Jump Into
A lot of my work over the past couple of months has the common theme of water. As I've been exploring more of my own influences and inspiration, some that started when I was just a kid, I've realized what a huge impact that being in or near water...
Jump First, Dive Later
While I was working on this painting, I started thinking about the differences between diving and jumping. To dive is intentional. Deliberate. Your arms meet and point to your target. You have a plan. You know where you want to land....
Inspiration: Abandoned Spaces and Samantha VanDeman
Shadow Art by @melanie_biehle on Instagram In my last post I wrote about how excited I am to visit Spreepark, an abandoned and decaying amusement park in Berlin. I'm not sure if it's the visual representation of the...
Adventure Club Summer Vacation: Iceland and Germany
We're headed to Iceland and Germany next month and my brain is in vacation mode. In addition to making this collage, I've been on a pinning spree – discovering places for us to visit on our trip to Reykjavík, Hamburg, Cologne, and...
Client Work: LUXE Interiors + Design Magazine Summer 2015
Luxe Interiors + Design Magazine hired me to photograph the Bright Ideas story on Seattle designer Erich Ginder for the Pacific Northwest Summer 2015 issue. If you're local, you can pick it up anywhere that sells cool design magazines. It will look...
Stormy Sea | Blue Mind
When I was a kid I wouldn't even put my face in the water. It took an entire summer of swimming lessons and then some. I was afraid of...everything. My grandmother couldn't swim. She was probably afraid to really try, given that she tended to...
Wearing My Writer Hat and Wielding a Paintbrush
I swear, you guys...I've been working. I totally painted this and these for #The100DayProject. It might not look like it if you've been reading this blog, but my writer hat is on and my fingers have been getting a...