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Melody Pena

Hi! Welcome! I'm so glad you're here! I'm really a sculptor, (folks in North America may be familiar with Windstone dragons, and my other fantasy sculptures in gift stores) but by night I'm a perpetual art student! I'm stuggling to learn to draw well, and, like most other humans on the planet it seems, I'm writing a graphic novel (Or rather, I am trying to. Lately I haven't a spare nanosecond to work on it.)

I joined Elfwood for two reasons: to have a place to show my attempts at graphic art, (and  some sculpture too, of course) but mostly I joined to talk to, and meet other artists! I'd especially like to talk with other folks who are also attempting, or are interested in, the ultimate art of 'drawn books'. If you leave a comment, I'll do my darndest, as time allows, to respond to your comments, and visit your gallery too!

 Now that I have a flat sceen monitor I can see how awful my images look! I couldn't see all the "gunk" that I left on the images in photoshop, because the monitor I was using was so dark .

I am really sorry about the horrible quality of some of my  pics. I will edit them when I get time.

Here is a link to the Windstone forum, if you would like to check it out: http://www.windstoneeditions.com/forums/index.php

...and here is another gallery of my stuff  to look at, if you are interested:

 http://www.windstoneeditions.com/galleries/thumbnails.php?album=16

 and since my email address doesn't want to show up in the upper right box, it is :  reptangle (at) gmail (dot) com.

I also need to say this bit- If you want to use any of my art for anything, (this also includes any Windstone stuff) PLEASE, PLEASE ask permission first, from me! I'm not saying this  just to be a selfish jerk, it's legally required to protect the copyrights. All of you, who are artists, should state this on your galleries as well. I'd be happy to explain this, if you want to email me.(my email works now) Please visit my daughter, Chessie Alberti, and our resident were-banana, Amber 'Vantid' Hill.

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Date Name Comment   24 Oct 2008 Seth mcflaren Loading... cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooookies Melody Pena replies: "FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATENING" 26 Oct 2008 Russel russ lavis Loading... i have said it before and i’ll say it again, your very talented. Melody Pena replies: "Thank you for the compliment!" 30 Nov 2008 Shannan Loading... Hi Melody, I had the great fortune to come across two of your prints today at an estate sale, they are both from 1980. I was wondering if they had names. One is of a unicorn head that is touching it’s nose to a small bird on the ground and the other is of a mother and baby unicorn, the mother and baby are both looking back the mother is mostly just the head but you see some of the baby’s back and shoulder. I can send a pic along if you are interested. I would like to know what the names on these are. I just love them and was so glad to have found them. Thank you so much for your beautiful unicorns! Melody Pena replies: "The first print was called, imaginatively " Unicorn with Bird " or something like that. That one is rarer than the other designs! It is one of the first six unicorns that we printed when we started out. I am not sure what the second one you describe is. There were a couple that fit that description. It probably had a name like" Unicorn with baby". I was never great at naming things. you can email me a picture of it if you would like reptangle (at) gmail (dot) com Thank you for the comment! It is always interesting to hear about where these prints show up. " 11 Dec 2008 Ben Loading... could you please tell me how you do the scales soo god dam well!! i just cant do thm 4 the life of me.. im only 14 lyk but ya nar Melody Pena replies: "Scales are not easy, as you have discovered. There is no quick way to do them that I have found, you just need to work very slowly and think about each one as a separate object lying on the supple skin of a creature. There are probably better ways to make scales than the way I do it; I carve and polish each one individually on the sculpture! It simply takes allot of work and lots of patience!" 30 Dec 2008 JENNY GREEN Loading... MELODY, I WANTED TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH I LOVE YOUR WORK. MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE UNICORNS. MY HUSBAND FOUND AND BOUGHT ME EVERY UNICORN PIECE YOU HAVE MADE. i JUST ACQUIRED THE VERY LARGE, HARD TO FIND, RETIRED UNICORN FROM THE GARGOYLE COLLECTION. AS USUALL, I WAS COMPLETELY IN LOVE !! I FOUND A PIECE ABOUT YOU ON THE INTERNET ONE DAY, WHILE I WAS SEARCHING FOR MORE OF YOUR WORK. WE HAVE SOMETHING ELSE IN COMMON, YOU ARE A NURSE, I AM A NURSE. WELL, THANK YOU!!!! JENNIFER Melody Pena replies: "Thank you so much! I am so happy that you like the unicorns! The Melody Pena who is a neonatal nurse is a different Melody Pena. I ran across her bio online also! You might be interested in joining the forum for Windstone collectors, it is populated by fascinating people and there are monthly raffles for Windstones! here is the link: http://www.windstoneeditions.com/forums/ I’m so glad you commented on my gallery here, I really need to update this page a bit! Thank you!" 20 Jan 2009 Maheen Malik Loading... howdy!!!! Melody Pena replies: "Thank you so much for stopping by and saying howdy!" 12 Apr 2009 MT Starkey Loading... Great stuff. Melody Pena replies: "Thank You!" 13 May 2009 Mary Linxey cat Blanco Loading... Hello! I’m so sorry I dissapered off the face of the earth. I was majorly POffed because they shot down all of my art. after going on strike(in a way) they looked over my art again and accepted one piece. Go check it out! its my fursona. 29 Jun 2009 Paul M Benjamin Loading... I really enjoyed your gallery. I love sculpting. I work best with stone. like marble or soap stone even. My brother and my parents are both way better at it than I am, but its a trade off, I can draw and they can’t, ha, take that, lol. keep up with the awesome work. 1 Jul 2009 Julie Loading... Hi Melody! I saw a picture of your limited edition (silver) mother dragon and would love to get one. Could you tell me when it will be available again? Page: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35

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