- Melanie Stimmell
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Melanie Stimmell Van Latum, born March 24, 1975 in Los Angeles, is an International 3D street painter and Fine Artist Specializing in Large Scale Collaborative Projects and Renaissance style inspired Artistry.
A signature member of the Pastel Society of America, she began street painting in 1998 and has painted at festivals throughout the United States and internationally. Melanie Stimmell is an internationally recognized street painter, working with clients in Turkey, Holland, Canada, France, The Netherlands Antilles, and throughout the US. Commissioned by corporations and advertising agencies for special events, performance art and interactive media which includes TV, film, and print, Stimmell's street paintings convey the spirit of creativity, art, and culture.
"Melanie Stimmell is a modern day Leonardo da Vinci. Her imagination and wild ability to paint and illustrate can bring extraordinary drama and appeal to any communications campaign." -Vicki Prentice[who?]
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3D Street Painting www.StreetPainting.us
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3D Street Painting www.StreetPainting.us
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3D Street Painting www.StreetPainting.us
Career
Melanie Stimmell Van Latum is a graduate of Art Center College of Design with a degree in Illustration and was she was trained as an oil painter and digital media artist. After graduating she worked as a lead technical director for the feature film South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut and then for the South Park TV series for 8 years. In 1999, while at South Park, she began street painting for festivals in the United States including the I Madonnari Festival in Santa Barbara. In 2006 she was commissioned to create the festival's 20th Anniversary featured painting at the steps of the Mission Santa Barbara. She was chosen as one of 3 American artists to paint in Istanbul, Turkey for their first street painting festival in 2004. Having painted for several cultural events in Holland, Melanie returned in the summer of 2007 to work with an international group of street painters from Italy, Germany, and Holland to paint a tribute to the churches and cathedrals of Utrecht. Stimmell's painting, 'The Entombment', was on display in the Augustinus church of Utrecht.
In 2009, under the artistic direction of Melanie Stimmell, Expressions in Chalk Street painting Festival Expressions in Chalk Street Painting Festival in London, Canada London, Ontario, recreated the Central Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at 18 x 92 feet. Stimmell also worked as a featured artist on the 2002 San Rafael Sistine Chapel Project. Since then, Melanie has secured her Maestro status in Europe with her second win in Holland and the highest honor a street painter is bestowed, Italy's Maestro Gold Medal in Grazie di Curtatone. Always evolving, Stimmell has brought the Renaissance tradition of street painting into the 21st century with new media integration. Now her most prominent events can be seen online via live stream.
Other media
Stimmell is also a fine artist creating works in soft pastels and oils that she shows in Southern California galleries under her married name, Melanie Van Latum. For the past 11 years Stimmell has been creating asphalt masterpieces and leading workshops for cultural and children's charity events around the world including Youth in arts, Children's Creative Project, Larimer Arts Association, Bakersfield Museum of Art Educational Programs, New Technology High School, Kayoo, Imadon Group, Visual Arts Scholastic Event, Les Craies d'Azur, and The Center for Hearing and Speech. She offers street painting workshops to children through the Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Los Angeles Music Center.
Stimmell has worked in conjunction with online Photoshop guru Mark Monciardini of Photoshop Top Secret to create Photoshop tutorials for photographers and artists. She now sells two tutorial DVD's titled Painting a Fantasy Portrait in Photoshop and The Street Painters Guide to the Pavement which she created in conjunction with colleagues in Holland.
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Categories:- Living people
- People from Los Angeles, California
- Pavement artists
- Artists from California
- American painters
- Art Center College of Design alumni
- 1975 births
- Women painters
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