The Painting Wizard

LA Video Game Expo

I was commissioned to design a large street painting for the Los Angeles Video Game Expo titled E for All. It was a huge event which deserved a huge painting. My 15 x 15 foot piece, sponsored by G4, was done on canvas in the lobby of the Convention Center over the course of the 4 day event. The image is based on a fountain in Vienna, Austria that I photographed a few years ago. The female figure at the top of the fountain seemed to have a powerful and victorious presence...much like a digital goddess ;) People seemed to really enjoy the work and really had a good chuckle when they would notice the game controller in the hand of the prevailing goddess.

Poster Redo

Well, as it turns out, my Bella Via image will not be used for the posters in Utrecht, Holland.  Instead, they will be using a pic of me actually painting in Holland.  That's me on the left working on a painting that Julie Kirk and I did a few years back to promote a Utrecht street painting festival.

My Bed is a Boat!

Availale for purchase: 16 x 20" Giclee prints of "My Bed is a Boat"
Each print is signed, numbered from an edition of 100.

Visit http://melaniestimmell.com/store.html

I will also be painting this image as a featured piece at this year's
La Piazza Dell Arte festival in Denver, Colorado.

Street Painting in The Netherlands

My Bella Via image will be featured on the poster for the Internationaal Streetpaintfestival Domplein Utrecht in The Netherlands. That's me, in the center panel, with the image I painted in Valencia, CA several years back.
This poster will hang throughout the city of Utrecht for the event which will be held July 6-9th in honor of the cities churches and cathedrals. A team of 12 artists- 3 from the US, including myself and Julie Kirk, 3 from Holland, 3 from Germany, and 3 from Italy, will create Holland's largest street painting to date.
The painting will consists of 12 9x9 foot reproductions from Utrecht Caravaggisti that hang in the cities museums. The 12 panels will be connected by a cityscape that will stretch the full 100 or so feet of the mural.

TopSecret Teaser

Mark Monciardini's new product PhotoshopTopSecret is in production but he has given us an
amazing teaser trailer to enjoy till it's release in a few months.
Sign up to the waiting list while you can!

http://www.photoshoptopsecret.com/

Photoshop Top Secret DVD

I will be featured on a new Photoshop tutorial DVD by Mark Monciardini.  He has been working on the new product for the last year and it will be amazing.  It will include tutorials on Movie Poster design, Dreamscapes, Photo Montage, and best of all...Digital painting by yours truly.
Visit his blog at    www.PhotoshopTopSecret.com/blog/
He is working on an awesome teaser video which will be released when the Photoshop Top Secret Home Page goes live.  Till then...Stay Tuned

Graduate Show!!!

Hey everyone!!  It's been a while since I've posted on my blogs.  Things have been busy with my upcoming Graduate show.  Here is the Grad PostCard.  Check it out!! 

Saturday, March 3rd, 2007      6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

West Gallery
CSU Fullerton
800 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831

You can view all my paintings on my home page...www.MelanieStimmell.com
An exhibit page will be posted once the show goes up.  See you then!

Art Representation

I have just signed with Vicki Prentice Associates Inc.  Vicki Prentice is an Art Rep who's office is in Rockefeller Center on 5th Avenue in New York.  How exciting is that??   Here's the link to my featured page...

http://vickiprenticeassociatesinc.com/work-stimmell.asp

Street Painting in Houston

The new Via Colore Festival in Houston Texas brought me out last week to present a workshop to their participating artists.  The event benefits the Center for Hearing and Speech which helps children with hearing disabilities. 

I just went out for a day but I had the best time.  The festival had about 50 artists sign up for the workshop and they flew me out to give a powerpoint presentation on the history and the techniques of street painting, using my own work as an example, and then a hands on demo where the artists could paint their own small square. 

The festival will be held November 18 -19th in down town Houston.  It will be a wonderful event and I am looking forward to returning to Houston to paint as a featured artist and also have some wonderful Koloches.

Here is the sketch of the painting I'll be doing.

      

            

My Favorite Website

One of my favorite websites for researching master painters and their artwork is ArtRenewal.com.
It is such a great source of high resolution images for reference.  I use it especially when searching for an image to paint at a street painting festival.  They not only offer beautiful images but also artist bio's, related articles and news, salon competitions, new emerging artists, and much more.
Check it out and let me know what you think.