How Categorizing My Art Held Me Back

Jan 8, 2023 | Creative People, Creative Process, Fine Art, My Creative Journey, Painting

Beautiful Paia in Maui. Photograph by Melanie Biehle, November 2022 Sometimes the message is subtle. In other times, our intuition knocks us down with knowledge like a rogue wave. My epiphany was closer to the latter.   If you’ve looked around my website lately... Read More

Behind the Scenes: Daily Journaling

Dec 15, 2022 | Creative People, Creative Process, Fine Art, Mindfulness, My Creative Journey, Writing

I honestly don’t know why it feels so hard to just “show up”. Maybe my brain is winning this round. You know how your brain can sometimes “reason” its way around everything until there’s nothing left? Or, more likely in my case, it makes the thing into a much bigger... Read More

New Things: Surf’s Up + Baliwood

Apr 13, 2016 | Creative Projects, Fine Art, Illustration, Painting, Sketchbook

It may not seem like it from looking at this blog but I’m working on a lot of things right now! I’m super excited about all of them. Some are things I never even thought about – licensing an image of a painting to be used as part of the set design for a DC... Read More