To Inspire You: Fly High

A thumbnail version of An illustration by Melani Grube of an eagle soaring high amongst the mountaintops and blue sky.

  Fly high and don’t let anyone take the wind from beneath you. Sometimes it may feel like you are the only one who believes in you. It’s lonely. It’s hard. And it’s the most important time to keep pushing on: it will carry you to your potential. Give yourself some love, ’cause you deserve…

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Winter’s Icy Breath: Preliminary Sketches

A detail from Eagle, Nesting Bird, and Wolf preliminary sketches for the painting, "Winter's Icy Breath", by Melani Grube.

  These are some preliminary sketches for my “Winter’s Icy Breath” painting. What is it like to be touched by winter? What creatures thrive in it? I’m not a fan of it, myself. But I have known a person or two who loved the cold. And after all, it sets a nice rhythm to our…

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Afternoon, Revisited: A Couple Characters

  A couple characters in study mode. Drawing loosely in doodle mindset often yields the best personalities. I tend to be shy, but I’m trying to loosen up and share. Are you shy or free-and-easy-going? See the evolution of this piece from sneak peek to color study to initial idea to character studies to characters…

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A Sunday Study

  Did you guess the painting that inspired the piece I am starting here? It’s George Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”. You can see the original below.     Before I started painting and inking my version of Seurat’s “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”,…

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