Save the Date!: You’re Invited to Open Studio 2019

Melani Grube, on left, and Rhonda Johnson-Ruprecht at Sacramento Giclee/Skyline Framing with Melani's prints for "The Kiss", June 2019.

  You’re invited! Please Save the Date: Open Studio 2019: Return to Dreamland Saturday and Sunday, September 21st and 22nd, 2019 10 am to 5 pm Studio Dreamland 5725 Audrey Way Fair Oaks, CA 95628   Please come see the new pieces I’ve been working on and new projects I’ve been involved with. Have some…

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Happy New Year: What Does A Year Look Like in Color?

A detail from a color spectrum created at the website Year of Colour. The site took Melani Grube's Instagram posts throughout the year of 2018 and extracted the colors and responses to those colors to make this color representation.

  Happy New Year! Would you believe they make a way to look back at how you used color over the year?! That’s what the image above is showing: the colors I used in my posts to Instagram and Facebook in 2018 and how you reacted to those posts and colors. You can do this,…

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The Paint Spatter for my Newest Painting

A detail from a preliminary paint spatter used for the newest painting by Melani Grube in her Masters Revisited series: a man and woman, in embrace.

  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…

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A Sneak Peek of a New Version of a Famous Painting

A detail sneak peek of the newest painting by Melani Grube in her Masters Revisited series: the legs and bare feet of a man and woman, amongst many-colored flowers.

  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…

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