I’ve spent some time exploring my blog archives this weekend as part of an interview that I’ll be sharing here soon. I stumbled across this handful of posts I did in 2014 and 2015 called Art + Object, and I’m ready to bring this series back! In fact,...
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NOTE: This article about painting big was originally published in my art newsletter that I send out every other week. Please sign up here to keep in touch! Size. Space. “What are things that Melanie has been thinking about!” Space isn’t a new...
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Yay! It’s a You’re My Obsession post, where I get to cram in tons of things that I love that are taking up space in my brain and life these days. First up, I’m verrrrrrrrrryyyyyy slowly building an empire. Not really, but I am starting to put some of...
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Today I want to share some of the creative process of the Mid-Century Modern Botanical Collection that I’m working on now. This project got its start as a series of shapes painted with gouache. I cut the shapes out and started using them to experiment with...
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I don’t always have a plan for my color palette when I sit down to work. In fact, most of the time I just start with one color (usually some shade of pink) and it begins to flow naturally from there. Even though I don’t begin most of my work with a mood...
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