Heading West
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Heading West
Melody Cleary
Vista 10 by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Vista 10 by
Melody Cleary
Ripples 3 by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Ripples 3 by
Melody Cleary
North Fork Silver Creek by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
North Fork Silver Creek by
Melody Cleary
Southwest Stillness by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Southwest Stillness by
Melody Cleary
Shade at Smith Rock by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Shade at Smith Rock by
Melody Cleary
Untitled Collage by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Untitled Collage by
Melody Cleary
September in Springbrook by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
September in Springbrook by
Melody Cleary
Water Gardens by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Water Gardens by
Melody Cleary
Water’s Poetry by
Melody Cleary
I convey, through my art, my emotional response to color, texture and design in nature. My current work is leaning toward a more abstract representational landscape style depicting trees, grasses, water and other natural subjects. I enjoy remaining as free as possible with the paint application via fluid negative brush painting or bold palette knife strokes, enhancing the lights and darks.
I am so drawn to light and shadows. Having a history of traditional realistic painting, I now derive great pleasure from applying and scraping pigment with knives to achieve interesting texture and tones and using thicker paint than I have formerly. I also enjoy experimenting with collage and acrylic stained papers and smaller abstract work which is a nice departure from my canvas works.
The visual arts have held great appeal to me since grade school. I watched my father draw designs for granite & marble memorials during his long engraving career in Portland. As he worked, I drew. In the 70’s, my mother introduced me to our local art center and I studied drawing and oil painting with local professional artists there in Tigard OR, now long gone, and as a working adult, wife and mother, I moonlighted by taking classes at community college and local art schools in life drawing, oil painting, palette knife painting, watercolor, acrylic and a year of basic design.
Since retirement in 2000, my concentration has been on continued media and color exploration, practicing watercolors, but then, finding the most intrigue with acrylic on canvas and also collage.
Please visit my website www.melodycleary.com for my complete bio and resume.
Contact Melody with your questions, inquiry or positive feedback, by filling in the form below.
Water’s Poetry by
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