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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Selfie, Sorta

Detail from A sketched "selfie" of artist Melani Grube. Red hair, bobbed, glasses, face.

  A selfie, sort of. A sketch of me, if I looked a little different. So, really, it’s a character sketch based on me. Sketching seems to be a series of choices. Which features do I include? Which features do I imply? How close to reality do I take this? How much do I let…

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Reveal of the Finished Painting: Woman in a Red Raspberry Beret

Detail from the painting, The Woman in a Red Raspberry Beret, inspired by Pablo Picasso's The Woman in a Red Beret. Features violets, blues and lime greens. A blonde woman in a raspberry red beret and checked blouse gazes into the distance.

  Have you been wondering how it would turn out? Now you can see the finished painting, my version of Picasso’s “Woman in a Red Beret “. Sotheby’s Auction House has a great blog post on Picasso’s painting that they recently auctioned off. You can see the Picasso piece below.     The portrait I…

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Red Beret Work in Progress Video

  Would you be inspired by a $70 million painting? I was. But it wasn’t about the money (though the auction sale total did amaze me). Really when I saw Picasso’s “Woman in a Red Beret”, the piece recently auctioned off at Sotheby’s, it was the undiluted, unapologetic emotion of the image that got me.…

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Journey of Hope Exhibit 2017: The Beginnings

Woman's face with lavender and blue floating hair, surrounded by flowers.

  Do some of your projects take you by surprise? Do they bring up a feeling of connection on a deeper level that you didn’t foresee? That’s how this painting is for me. I am creating it for the Journey of Hope Exhibit and I am so proud to be a part of it. You…

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