At Play

Yay! Both of my entries got into @mdfedart’s upcoming virtual exhibition, “At Play.” See https://mdfedart-play2025.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery

I’ll be painting at Paint Annapolis 2025 in 2 weeks, so expect more art soon!

Photo #2 —> Digital painting IN PROGRESS

Progress on my current commission: I’m working on the sky right now. Highlights will go on the water soon and then I’ll do the boats. 

 

Wildfire 🚲🏇

I’m very excited about my latest artwork that I completed last week. Why? Because I managed to get the proportions right without using a photo reference! I did have to look up the ratio of the size of cannon to forearm when I saw that I had the cannons too long. Then I saw also that the hooves were not big enough. Because this is pretty much a watercolor painting (a tiny bit of colored pencil on the kid’s pants), I was able to make adjustments and was excited to do so without damaging the paper as sometimes happens when things are overworked. 

When posting to Instagram, I was looking for music to put with the post and came across the song Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy thar I knew from the 70s. 

Commission Complete

 I had fun transforming a photo for a friend into a more artistic rendering. I did a few different iterations to see what appealed and they chose the one closest to the coloration of the actual photo. The plan is to print it as a 14x14" print and gift it to the person depicted in the photo.

Outrigger
Digitally altered photo rendered as a digital painting using Art Set 4 and containing elements of watercolor, pastel, and ink

Painting At The Beach

 It’s beach week, as those of you with my 2023 calendar may have noticed (that’s why this week is covered with little beach paintings). Greetings from Fenwick Island Delaware!

I am playing with watercolors on gessoed wood panels this week. It is so much fun to turn the panel and watch the colors swirl and rush from side to side. More to come. 

2 more poms

I FINALLY nailed that ruby color.

 

+ 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!

 

05/20/2021 5 minute no-reference digital watercolor

 

5/20/2021 V The Hierophant

 

5/19/2021 V The Hierophant

 This is the last card I have partially completed. Working on finishing it. Will add an apple. 

5/18/2021 Completed—III The Empress

 

5/12/21 The Star, updated

 

4/19/2021 Spring—watercolor

4/2/21 Tea marble

 

03/16/2021 Candlestick

 

03/13/2021 Elk River Sunset—In progress

 Will fit an apple in here eventually. Watercolor sunsets are not easy. 

03/10/21 High Priestess enhanced in ProCreate

 Here’s another analog watercolor painting enhanced in Using Procreate. This is from my Tarot Card project  but I put an apple on the coffee cup sleeve just for you!

And the original

Original is on the right  I think I may add back the yellow to the moon....

03/03/2021 Bobber

 

2/27/21 Forget Me Not

 

02/12/21 Enough

 I just really like this detail and the composition of it cropped this way.