Creative Process
The Best Way to Look Back Over Your Year: Best Nine Social Media Posts for 2018
Do you want to know the best way to take an overview of your year? Even better, a way that’s both fun and effective? Take a look at your best nine social media posts, such as on Instagram or Facebook over the last year and arrange them into a 3-by-3 square grid of the…
Read MoreThe Paint Spatter for my Newest Painting
What do you see in this paint spatter? Would you have found an image like the next one? This is the image I found in the paint spatter. I was looking for an image inspired by Gustav Klimt’s painting, “The Kiss”, which you can see below. Watch for the continuing…
Read MoreA Peek at the Sketch for my Newest Painting
Here’s a second sneak peek for you of a new work-in-progress. Can you guess what famous painting inspired this sketch? I’m so excited to share it with you!
Read MoreA Sneak Peek of a New Version of a Famous Painting
Something special to share at my Open Studio Party and Solo Show at Pause Coffee House in September. (To see more about this, see below.) Can you guess which famous painting this piece is based on? It’s okay, I’ve given you a deceptive detail from it. I had to choose an outlying part…
Read MoreThe Best Links for How To Write an Artist Statement
Has it happened to you yet? You’ve got your artwork prepared and finished, you’ve met the deadline date for applying and when you go to submit your piece for consideration to an exhibit, the show juror requests an Artist’s Statement from you. What?! If you’re like me, you haven’t got one that doesn’t…
Read MoreArtist 2 Artist: First Meetup
If you’re an artist in the greater Sacramento/Roseville area, please come to the next Artist 2 Artist Meetup August 21st, 2018. Here you can see Deidre Trudeau, Charlene Martin and I (Melani Grube) striking a pose at the first gathering of this new artists’ group that happened on July 17th. MaryTess Mayall from the…
Read MoreThe Image Appears in This Work-In-Progress, “Wild Horses”
This is the third phase in creating my painting: applying ink to the paint spatter to define the image. It’s a tense, but satisfying part of the process. The problem is ink splats happen! And you never know when. But there’s still a ways to go before this painting is finished. See the evolution of…
Read MorePreliminary Sketches for the Painting, “Wild Horses”
These pencil drafts (see the second image below) are the second phase in the creation of my paintings. (You can see the paint spatter in the first phase here.) They’re messy and loose and far from refined. But the looser they are, the more they keep the spirit of the initial inspiration for the painting.…
Read MoreThe Paint Spatter That Inspired “Wild Horses”
Each one of my paintings starts with a spatter of paint. Pictured above is the spatter that inspired the painting, “Wild Horses”. I can always feel an excitement when I have a paint spatter that holds an image that I have yet to uncover. What can you see in this spatter? See the evolution…
Read MoreThe Art of the Flat Lay
What is a flatlay? A flat lay is a photo of an assortment of items laid on a flat surface (thus, flat lay). The photo is most often taken from directly above the items. The surface serves as the background to the photo. The objects usually describe a theme, like “a day at the…
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