ARIZONA MELLSTORM

$1 ,152.00

MELL’S MESA 12″ X 16″ acrylic on masonite board. 2022. Arizona artist and native son Ed Mell started his art career in the canyons of Manhattan. New York City. There he enjoyed a successful career as a commerical illustrator for several blue ribbon advertising agencies, design studios and magazine publications. But he missed his home state of Arizona. He missed the sunsets. the sun rises. The mountains. The canyons, The Buttes and the Mesas. In 1971 Ed left New York for Arizona and helped a friend establish a summer art program on the Hopi Indian Reservation at Hotevilla. Ed never returned to the Big Apple. He followed in the footsteps of another legendaruy Arizona painter, Maynard Dixon, who also got his start in the art business as a commercial illustrator. And the rest is southwestern art history!

Category: Southwestern Art

ARIZONA MELLSTORM 12″ X 16″ acrylic on masonite board. 2022. It’s been said that if you want to learn to paint, when you’re first starting out, you want to emulate your heroes. The painters who’s work you love and would like to be able to paint like those artists. One of my favorite painters is Arizona painter Ed Mell. Ed is a very well-known painter and sculptor of Southwestern Art. So I looked through a book filled with Ed’s work titled “Beyond the Visible Terrain.” and I found two pictures where I thought would be a good place to start.