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Seasons Greetings!

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 23, 2011, 6:57 pm
Image Source:  Clipartandcrafts.com Wow!  This year has just sailed by.  Thanks for all of your visits and comments!  Enjoy the holidays and have a great New Year.  
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Sketchbook Project: Heroes and Villains (The Intro)

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 16, 2011, 7:46 pm
(click on the image to see full size) This summer I signed up for the 2012 Sketchbook Project.   You receive a book, fill it,  send it back, and it goes on national tour with thousands of other sketchbooks.  People get to flip through your book and see your process or just enjoy the drawings. ...
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Happy Halloween!

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2011, 8:17 pm
  Boo! I’m enjoying a Frankenstein triple feature and working on artist trading cards.  I’ve had a couple of requests for the Frankenstein monster so what a perfect night to finish these drawings up.  Here’s one I finished last night. Have a spooky evening everyone!  
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ATC Round Up: Crows

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2011, 6:05 pm
Here’s a quick round-up of crow artist trading cards I’ve been making lately for swaps and trades: Thanks for visiting!  More art soon…
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ATCs: Cats, Cats, and More Cats

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Sep 19, 2011, 7:52 pm
More cats for you here.  I’ve been making a lot of these lately.  I think because I want to make sure that they aren’t flukes or just happy accidents.  I’m so amazed by how well these are turning out.   For a contrast, here are some cat drawings I drew in 2008: Big improvement, I think.
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Pen Sketch: The Cat Next Door

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Jun 29, 2011, 3:33 pm
© 2011 Mellanie Collins  Fletcher, brush pen and gouache on paper, 5 x 7 inches   Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. ~Jean Burden    
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Ballpoint Pen Sketch: Something Serious

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Jun 2, 2011, 1:23 pm
Something Serious pen and paper, 5 x7 inches Instead of filling requests for portraits, I’ve been filling up my sketchbook with ballpoint pen drawings.  Here’s one I thought came out quite well.  As always, Michael is my ever-patient model.  He looks like he’s thinking about something pre...
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Graphite Sketch: An Impossible Angle

Mellanie C. posted an article on - May 13, 2011, 4:07 pm
© 2011 Mellanie Collins graphite on paper, 5 x 8 inches On the first sunny and warm day this spring,  Michael and I went to the park.  Michael basked, and I sketched.   At first I was frustrated.  I had chosen an impossible angle and as it was such a glorious, lazy, summery afternoon I just c...
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ATCs: Bulldog Drawing

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Apr 14, 2011, 2:41 am
Bulldog by Mellanie Collins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 United States License. 2.5″x3.5″  gouache and colored pencil Here’s a little bulldog drawing for an artist trading card I made by request.  I have mixed feelings about this drawing.   I think t...
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My Own Mini-Portrait Party w/ Lindsay Long

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Mar 25, 2011, 7:51 pm
  © 2011 Mellanie Collins I’ve been trading artist trading cards (ATCs) for about three years now. It’s a great hobby and it’s really helped me with my drawing. The first trade I did was a portrait exchange with Ujwala from Draw the Line.   We each drew each other and it was a great ex...
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2010? Forget About It. I Did.

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Feb 17, 2011, 4:36 pm
© 2010 Mellanie Collins John Bavarro for Julia Kay’s Portrait Party Pen, ink, and marker on paper, 5
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Wishful Thinking

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Apr 16, 2010, 7:01 pm
© 2010 Mellanie Collins Oh how I’ve been missing drawing!  After starting a new job and succombing to some nasty and persisent sinus funk, I’ve not been able to get much drawing done for the last month –or even this month.   The sketching I’ve managed hasn’t been worth sharing. I did...
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ATC: Graphite Portrait Sketch

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Here’s a sketch I did for my pal Kati. It’s been a while since I’ve done a graphite piece.
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African American History Month: Bessie Coleman

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
© 2010 Mellanie Collins 4″ x 5.5″   pen and markers Bessie Coleman (1892 – 1926) was the first woman to earn an International Aviation License and the first African-American licensed pilot. Born in Texas,  Bessie was the 10th of 13 children.  Unhappy with small town life in Texas, she ...
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African American History Month: Thurgood Marshall

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
4"x5" pen and markers © 2010 Mellanie Collins February is African American History Month, so I thought I’d work on a few drawings of people whose stories inspired me when I was growing up. Here’s a drawing of a young Thurgood Marshall. The grandson of a slave, he became the first African-Ame...
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Sketching on the Bus

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
A few weeks ago it was snowing and I had an errand I had to run so I rode the bus downtown.   I thought it would be a great opportunity to do some sketching .  I found myself a seat behind this kid and I just had to draw his hair.   Luckily he didn’t move much and he sat there for my whole ri...
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Another Parrot ATC: Meet Shadow

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
2.5" x 3.5" colored pencil/wc pencil After drawing a parrot portrait for an trade some months ago, I got a request from another parrot owner.  This  artist trading card features Shadow, a nanday conure  talented enough to maintain his own blog:  A Parrot’s Point of View.  Shadow is also the ...
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Another Van Gogh-style ATC

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
2.5" x 3.5" oil pastel on canvas paper I’ve been in a bit of a drawing slump and fighting a cold, so not much art is getting done these days.  Here is another Van Gogh-style card from the swap I mentioned on my last post.  While I tried acrylic paint on the last card, this one was done with o...
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Lazily Copying From a Master: Van Gogh ATC

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
2.5" x 3.5" acrylic on canvas paper One of the ongoing swaps over at Illustratedatcs.com is the Art History 102. Each month the host chooses an artist and we can make cards adapted from one of the artists works or create a work in the artist’s style. I signed up for the Van Gogh month and this...
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Fall is here. Back to Blogging…

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
Hello there! Can’t believe it’s September already. Now that summer is almost over I feel a little more like spending more time at the computer. I’ve spent most of August trading a lot of custom portraits on atcsforall.com and illustratedatcs.com. It’s been challenging and fun. Here’s...
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Goodbye 2009! Happy New Year Everyone!

Mellanie C. posted an article on - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
5"x7" walnut ink and colored pencil This year has really flown by for me.  I’ve been busy drawing and painting artist trading cards and I haven’t come up for air very often.  I counted up my scans for the year and found that I had made 204 ATCs  for swaps and personal trades–and that does...
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