Melodie Lynn

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As a kid I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t making something out of something else. I loved to tinker with Legos, paints, model cars and clay. I often took music boxes apart to see what made them work. In my teens it was just me & my mom. Hardship of life then taught me how to look at something and figure out how to create or design something first, but mostly because we couldn’t afford to buy it.

Self-taught artist, my background in formal artistic training is sketchy (no pun intended). I originate from Jacksonville, Florida and had studied Interior design and art off and on for 2 years between Florida and Illinois. I prefer credibility to be that from life skill. I started sewing at an early age and made my first leather Barbie vest and skirt when I was 12 from an old purse my mother gave me. I painted furniture because I never could find anything I liked. Most of my commercial inspiration comes from cartoons, the great Walt Disney, Jim Henson and his Muppets, and a wide variety of music. Famous artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Monet, Jackson Pollock, and even Andy Warhol give me the drive to be free in my expression without having to color inside the lines.

Acrylic paints and a little of this and that on… fabric & wood, small-scale furniture, or a combination to form one of a kind decorative mixed media sculpture, or fantasy characters. (Um...you name it?!)

Welcome to my head, and thank you for visiting!