Links Page Marquis for Instagram-directed links, with illustration of mystical seated woman pointing with sparkles flowing forth and three birds flying ahead, with a nodding flower anchoring the further corner.

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Artist Melani Grube in a Pirate hat delivering her painting, "Skelly Pirates" to the Sacramento Fine Arts Center for the Magnum Opus Show 2021, Carmichael, California.

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The Sketch Along With Me Event on Zoom for my Sac Open Studios 2020 Artist Event. In this picture, you'll see artist Melani Grube's sketching hand and pencil as she works on her Year of the Rat piece. You'll also see some illusttation elements she created in the side borders.

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Detail from pen and ink illustration of a cantering horse, mane flowing, tail flying behind.

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A detail from A painting hung on a wall above a console with metallic statues from the Far East and a blue Art Deco glass vase, and lit from above by industrial-styled lights. The painting is a modern take by Melani Grube in which Sunday afternoon sunlight filters through the trees along a shoreline park filled with people in turn of the century dress, lounging, playing, fishing, rowing, and sailing in this updated take on the French classic by George Seurat.

Click here: A better look at "Afternoon, Revisited"

A flat lay exploration of associations we have with horses, through an assortment of objects: a horse shoe of good luck, the glove of English-style riding, the wildly beautiful horse on the book cover, the bow-tie of the proper gentry riding class, the red and white lariat, the silver cowboy, an arrowhead pointing to the Native American riding tradition, the archer-horse-man of the horoscope sign Sagittarius, and a mini celluloid pencil for scoring horse shows.

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