The Student

Many thanks to my friend (and published poet!) Susan Sonde for inviting me to sit in on her art lesson with resident artist David Zuccarini at the Howard County Center For The Arts (Elicott City) last night and for his permission to occupy an empty space and take a shot at a quick study from life of Susan at work. 

Susan has a distinctive style of painting #portraits using shades of blue and grey with beige and occasionally shades of brown or purple, and so I tried to imitate her style a little here. My blues are a little too bright and the faces are incomplete, but I’m happy with it for a 2h #speedpainting (although  she disputes the size of her nose lol). What a great space and teaching opportunity for Howard County. They also have 2 exhibitions going on in the space right now. 

Speaking of exhibitions, I have a piece in Maryland Federation of Art’s  Spring Member Show right now at Circle Gallery in Annapolis. See Https://mdfedart.org for reception times and virtual gallery

MFA Spring Member Show is up!

The Maryland Federation of Art’s (jurored) Spring Member Show is up at Circle Gallery (Annapolis, MD) thru May 27th, with its closing reception that evening from 4-6pm. See mdfedart.org for details. 

My entry is the 1st of 2 pomegranate studies I finished this year.

NYC Trip Photos

 I’ve been having fun playing with some of my photos from last weekend’s trip to NYC. I’m definitely adding these to my Reference Photos list for future art and may print them anyway. 

SOLD!—Mélange II reception = success!

Had a great time at the reception. Lots of people to chat with and made a sale!

Mélange II is up at Circle Galllery!

Wow, what a process to get these hung. I felt so bad for putting so very many holes in the walls that they had just painted but I had a devil of a time figuring out how tibpkace nt little paintings since the layout is done at home wasn’t going to work. There were several more piecesbIdbrealky hoped to include but there just wasn’t room without making it too crowded. Seriously, its was a ridiculous number of holes.. Luckily the professional artists there with MUCH more exhibition experience were willing to give advice and opinions. 

You are hereby cordially invited to the in-person reception this a Saturday, 18 March 2023, from 3–5pm at Circle Gallery (Annapolis, MD). Please come and say hi. I’d love to see you!

Prints are in. Framing commences…

Cutting mats with my mom’s 1959/1962/? Dexter mat cutter and trying not to get an ulcer doing it. I hate measuring! This is all pretty expensive—I hope some of these sell! (Hint hint! Subtle, I know. Nothing but class here.)

Melange II is coming…

Melange II is an opportunity at the Maryland Federation of Art’s Circle Gallery (Annapolis, MD, USA) for a member who had entered an artwork for an exhibition and volunteered a few hours and donated an artwork for their Collector’s Choice fundraiser to win, via lottery, a wall in the gallery for a couple of weeks. I got one! So I will have a wall with my name stenciled over it on which to put anything I want for a couple of weeks, along with a bunch of other artists taking up the rest of the gallery space. So now I am working like crazy to have everything ready. Installation is on Tuesday and the reception is o next Saturday )18 March, 2023)  Exhibition details, including the sales gallery are here. Come ou out for the reception, we’d love to see you!

SOLD—Herman’s New Gig 1/1

That’s my 3rd ever sale at the gallery. The story is that a guy came in and got the welcome spiel and came back to the desk before the employee even got to sit down (so like in 3 seconds, it’s a small gallery) saying, “I want this one,” and Herman was gone. And this was before the reception. Just a well-in. (!!!) 

It didn’t hurt I’m sure having I made the exhibition title wall. First time for that too. Very exciting.