New book released as a video

I decided to release my children’s book, “Little Snowflake Flower,” as a video as we are in the middle of qu

Return to figure study

I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am for youtube. I have found a cache of timed gesture poses by the New Masters

Tempo article Feb. 13, 2020

Downtown studio space

It’s like an answer to a prayer. Like a dream realized. I have a studio downtown on Kit Carson Road. I unwrapped my 65th

More Bruegel influence

Here is a favorite Bruegel painting, “The Fall of Icarus,” which I used as inspiration for my painting “A Busy M

Snowstorms

More work with the masters. I have always admired the work of Francisco Goya and as I scanned through his famous images, one s

More work with the masters

In trying to sharpen my composition skills I am studying the masters. Here is an example of a classic image and then my rendit

“La Lomita,” oil on canvas panel by Melwell, 8×10

A Gene Kloss-inspired painting. Nevermind that the original is a winter-time snow painting. I changed the season, the color, a

“Return of the Procession,” oil on canvas panel by Melwell, 8×10

Inspired by a Gene Kloss composition. If you have not witnessed this event, you owe it to yourself to go just once.

“Witnesses,” oil on canvas panel by Melwell, 8×10

Inspired by a quintessential Gene Kloss composition, “Wind Cloud,” from 1934.