Since most of year two at the atelier is grisaille painting (in black and white), I wont paint in color until about this time next year.
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Oil painter living in Seattle.
See my work at www.melissamesserart.com or on Instagram @melissamesserart
The Annual Aristides Atelier Show
Of course I didn’t think to take a picture of the drawing before I framed it.
Read MoreThe Cast Drawing
Exactly one month ago my long-labored cast drawing made its debut at our annual atelier show.
Read MoreQuick Progress Update
Since the last post I’ve been all late nights, early mornings and weekends trying to get something presentable enough to hang on the wall at the atelier show.
Read MoreBut will I have time to finish?
Unfortunately not in the way I had hoped.
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The Book Project
Since last summer I have been working with Juliette as artistic designer of her fourth book, Lessons in Classical Painting. I believe it will be available in book stores next spring. Her last book Lessons in Classical Drawing is a work of such high calliber that I’ve read it over and over again and the binding is peeling back from the hard cover. If I’m ever asked why this atelier, why this teacher, the answer is quite literally…
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The Three Week Pose
For the past three weeks my days have been indistinguishable.
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Top Secret
(Featured image: “Bacchanal” by contemporary Swedish painter Nicholas Alm. I saw paintings from this series at Arcadia Gallery in NYC during my trip.) For many emotions, what I’m about to show you must stay between us.
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The Sphere Project
This has been the most brutally obsessive project I have done at the atelier heretofore.
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Where Would We Be Without Friends?
Yesterday I was issued an order to write, and apparently that’s all it took.
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Art Monk 