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The Lemon Branches

By: Melissa July 3, 2017July 1, 2018

Color, Painting, Process, Still Life, Year Threecontemporaryrealism, floralpainting, lemons, naturamorta, paintfromlife, paintingprocess, realism, stilllifepainting3 Comments

For the third year in a row the school year has ended in a blur of events, travel, scramble-scramble-scrambling to finish paintings, shows, trying to ignore distractingly good weather and not getting nearly enough sleep. There’s so much about Third Year I want to share with you and have record of before immersing in summer…

Limes, Figures and the End of Fall

By: Melissa December 11, 2016January 6, 2018

Color, Grisaille, Paintingpaintfromlife, stilllifepainting4 Comments

(Featured image, Etude in Green, 8 x 10 oil on canvas board, available) Five weeks have passed since the end of the Randy pose and, because (cruelly) progress is not linear, it has been one unsatisfying figure painting experience after another but the limes were truly a joy.