by Melissa Messer
Hey gang, I finally made a website with my portfolio of work. The website’s address is www.melissamesserart.com and I have linked this blog to it (you can see the “Art Monk Blog” link in the image of the home page above in the upper right corner). UPDATE – To access the blog directly without going to…
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Dear Patient Readers: Year two is in full swing and where the heck have I been? Painting hard.
Read MoreSince 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.
Read MoreOf course I didn’t think to take a picture of the drawing before I framed it.
Read MoreExactly one month ago my long-labored cast drawing made its debut at our annual atelier show.
Read MoreUnfortunately not in the way I had hoped.
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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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Instead of blogging I’ve been reading!
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Where have I been all week? you might ask. Drawing these bottles!
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After a month of epic excitement (flights, houseguests, a birthday), this is my first perfectly intact week since I began the atelier.
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