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

My 1st Paint Annapolis Award!

 So this happened…

Maryland Federation of Art

“Art On The Avenue” 3rd Place + SOLD!

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

Paint Annapolis 2023

What a fun week! This is the one week a year when I do not mom and I do not wife, I paint. No awards but I did sell a painting! And that’s plenty reward for me. 

She Left 🔴 | 14x18” | Acrylic on canvas panel ———SOLD———

After Hours  | 12x16”| | Acrylic on canvas

Mozart's Garden | 5x7" unframed | Acrylic on canvas

The Witness | 16x20" | Acrylic ink on paper

Treehouse Needed | 6x14" | Acrylic on canvas

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…

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.