Melissa Dow Illustration

Eleven Magazine PDX

Melissa Dow — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:44:12 +0000

A few weeks ago the awesome people over at Eleven Magazine PDX asked me if I would do a short interview for them, as well as have one of my pieces put in a double spread on the inside cover of the magazine. Of course I was down for it! The March issue with the feature just came out last week. You can pick one up for free at many music stores/hip joints around Portland. If you are interested in the local music scene and general cool stuff going on in Portland, I highly recommend it!

It looks I will be doing a cover illustration for them sometime in the next few months, so stay tuned for that.

Here is a scan of the interview, and some not so great pics showing the double spread back covers.

Click on thumbnails to view full size.

“Love of Portland” show + oh yeah I sort of forgot I had a blog…

Melissa Dow — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:45:09 +0000

So, it’s been quite awhile since I updated the blog section of my site. But I have been plenty busy. I’ve been pretty good about keeping my Facebook page up to date with news. I am going to get back to updating my blog.

First up, this is a piece I just finished for the “Love of Portland” show, opening this Saturday (Feb. 19th) at People’s Gallery, located at Pioneer Place, downtown Portland. It’s going to be an awesome show, with over 150 artists sharing pieces showing their love for Portland.

This piece was a lot of work, but I think it turned out pretty cool. I am probably going to be doing a small run (20) of gilcee prints of this. More info to come soon!

SCDP

Melissa Dow — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:13:09 +0000

It’s Mad Men week over at the Sketchery. I wish I’d had more time to do more illustrations for the theme, since MM is one of my all time favorite shows, but I was able to pull this together. I’d love to do some more Mad Men work in the future.

Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce

Villains Week, concluded.

Melissa Dow — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 02:51:11 +0000

Well, I do have one more that I would like to work on, but for the moment I’m going to leave it be and move on with other things. To wrap things up:

Max Shreck

Baby Jane Hudson

More Villains Week

Melissa Dow — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:59:30 +0000

Oh yes, there’s more…. The wonderfully warm and fuzzy Nurse Ratched from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Villains Week (cont.)

Melissa Dow — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:47:10 +0000

Villains Week continues with one of my favs, Col. Hans Landa.

It’s Villains Week!

Melissa Dow — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:18:48 +0000

Seeing as it’s ‘Favorite Villains’ week over at the Sketchery and I love, love, love villains, I’ve gone a bit crazy on this one and done a whole bench of ‘em.

I’ll also be posting these every day this week over on my Facebook page. At the end of the week I’ll be doing a drawing (or more than one) for a free print of your favorite. So stop on by!

After this, I really need to stop on the portraits for awhile…

Anton Chigurh, from the film No Country for Old Men.

Sketchery – Favorite Musicians Week

Melissa Dow — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:02:31 +0000

Oh lordy, I could have done an entire series for this week’s theme over at the Sketchery, sadly, time seems to keep moving, despite my best efforts. What’s up with that??

Tom Waits

Nick Cave

‘Starvation Heights’ Centennial Event – prints

Melissa Dow — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:00:45 +0000

On top of the print I am already selling, I have created two new prints for the “Starvation Heights” Centennial, this Saturday in Olalla, Washington.

I will be there selling all 3 limited edition prints, plus some smaller swag. If you happen to be in the area, stop by my table and say hi!

100 Bastards – Sentient Bastard

Melissa Dow — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:52:29 +0000

#88 here. Big thanks to Brooke for not only giving me the idea for this one, but for getting me into Harlan Ellison, which this references very obviously one of Ellison’s short stories. (bonus points to anyone who comments with the name of the story; Brooke is exempt however )

Sentient Bastard

(It was actually somewhat difficult to make a machine look ‘sinister’; but I think I’m pretty happy with it.)