After After Dark

Here is what I have been up to since After Dark in terms of work accepted to jurors shows—mixture of painting and photography. Pics to come soon!

JHUAPL Annual Art Show, Juror: Catharine Love @ John’s Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 2025, Laurel, MD, USA

Birds’ Eye View, 8x10 inches, Acrylic on canvas panel

Award: First Place (Fine Art)

Exhibition Website: https://sites.google.com/view/apl-art-and-photo-show/home?pli=1

Human Expressions, Juror: Marisa Stratton @ Maryland Federation of Art: Curve Gallery (Virtual), Annapolis, MD, USA

The Beginning Of The After. 40x50 inches, Acrylic on canvas

Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart-he2026.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery?page=3

Reflecting, Juror: Nataliya Gurshman @ Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA

Dawn Of The Two Suns, 15x15 inches, giclée print of digital photograph 

After The Show, 12x12inches, giclée print of digital photograph

Digital Explorations, Juror: Andy Holtin @ Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery)

Annapolis, MD, USA

Vacation Of A Lifetime, 12x12 inches, digital 

painting based on photo, sublimation print on aluminum

Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart-digitaldirections2026.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery

In Contrast, Juror: Marcie Cooperman @ Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery)

Annapolis, MD, USA

Keep Off The Dune, 15x12 inches, giclée print of digital photo

Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart-in-contrast2025.artcall.org/pages/awards/slideshow

Stars added!

 Finally finished this Paint Annapolis painting and it is ready to go to its new home!

2 more MFA PA Paintings

 These are both in acrylic. I feel really good about the house and am going to enter it in today’s architectural/historic Annapolis competition with m MD Ave, which will be closed off for the event in the late afternoon. 

-Sidewalk Surprise (King George St.).  02x16 inches unframed

Rooftop Party (Hillman Garage). Acrylic.9x12 inches

I need a better picture of this one. This was taken on the roof at night and so the colors don’t come through correctly. 

PAINT ANNAPOLIS 2025 Begins

 I can’t believe it’s here but it is! First event = done! I participated in the “Dueling Brushes” QuickDraw event, which is, basically—what can you do in 2 hours?

Here is where I was at the 2h mark. Tweaked some more since then. More pics forthcoming. 

MY FIRST BLUE RIBBON!

What a surprise to receive the juror’s first place award at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab’s 2025 Annual Art Show! Such a great event. I can’t believe my husband’s worked there all this time and this is the first time I participated or attended. Boy have I been missing out! All proceeds went to the Johns Hopkins Medical Center.

Mt. Tabor Etsy Review

 What a treat to get such a nice review!

Mt. Tabor = SOLD

It’s gonna be hard to let this one go. It has become one of my favorites. Painted in my car on a cold January afternoon, I’d always thought this was an old one-room schoolhouse, Nope.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Tabor_Good_Samaritan_Lodge_No._59

 

SOLD!—My first gallery sale!

I had my first gallery sale at the Paint Annapolis reception for public painters! The red dot indicates a sale  

MFA Studio Tours - What I'm sending to Circle Gallery

 It is so hard to decide what to send! Officially sending in my choices as submissions always stresses me out so. I want to choose ones that all have nothing to do each other if I were to choose my favorites and that doesn't work because, as I understand, it's desirable for any grouping of your work to seem cohesive. In any case, these 2 are what I will be delivering to the gallery:

Plein Air in Crownsville, MD

 

+ 2 more house watercolors

 After doing the acrylic painting of the John Dodd house for that commission, I wanted to see if I could do a watercolor. I ended up doing two. The client chose the acrylic, but I’m pleased with these and they were great learning experiences. 

Can you tell what is different between the two besides the coloring of the trees? One of these things is not like the other….

Lookin’ pretty good in a frame! The acrylic is the one that’s been sent to Sacramento  I’ve entered the watercolor for the Maryland Federatipn of Art’s upcoming Light And Shadow exhibition. Fingers crossed!

 

Commission COMPLETE!

Welcome Home (James Dodd, architect, Sacramento). Acrylic on canvas. 16x20”

Commissioned House Portrait!

 Working one a new commission. Doing digital studies of this unusual home until I find what I like best…

Vacation art: Beach plein air finished at home #1

I did some plein air acrylic painting over my vacation in Fenwick Island, DE (USA):

The view from the balcony of our rental:

Details:

Ocean: 

Paint Annapolis Extra—“Cozy” (3x4”)

Location: Duke of Gloucester & Conduit Street, Annapolis

4/13/21 Lake

 More progress on this piece: I refined and leveled the cottage and dock, added people. This is a real place, from my memory. My grandfather built this (no longer extant) cottage where I spent childhood summers. In the Poconos (PA, USA), the ground is littered with boulders and smaller rocks, left behind by the glacier that covered North America during the last ice age. The dock rests on two of these. Another sits out in the water, and is where we used to bathe. I learned to swim off the rightmost rock of the dock and spent plenty of time swinging in hammocks, catching frogs, fishing, and playing flashlight tag at night. I get quite choked-up contemplating this image. I may refine it a bit further. The apple is on the dock.

Lake

 No apple yet but it’s what I did today. 

03/11/2021 North Street (analog) fixed

I used my kindergarten cutting and pasting skills to help correct the roofline on this illustration. I cut out the parts that didn’t work and couldn’t be erased and pasted the parts I kept onto a new page and went from there. 

Here’s a comparison of both digital and analog with both rooflines:

03/10/2021 North Street fixed

 So, it turns out I got the roofline wrong. Fixed. 

3/5/21 North Street

 Not sure if I’m done with this one but it’s done for now.