Fall 2023 Update

 I’ve been having a little trouble with the Blogger app and this has delayed my keeping you all up-to-date. We’ll see if this posts all right. What have I been up to? Good question. What a blur since the summer. I’ve done some plein air painting, especially of the old Johns Hopkins Birthplace (Whites Hall) in Gambrills, MD and also played around with some architectural photos taken in NYC.

I was having trouble uploading photos, so let’s give this a shot… Ah, well would you look at that. It worked.

Over the River and Through The Woods
(Johns Hopkins Birthplace, Gambrills, MD)
12x16 unframed
Acrylic on canvas panel

Still Hanging On (Johns Hopkins Birthplace, Gambrills, MD)

12x16” unframed

Acrylic paint and acrylic ink on canvas panel

Treehouse Needed

6x14”

Acrylic on canvas

Apposition (Garment District, NYC)

Digitally altered photograph

Cisterns (Garment District, NYC)

Digitally altered photograph

Eye-Level (Garment District Cisterns, NYC)
Digitally altered photograph

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. 

MFA Midsummer Madness

Happy July! My photograph, YIELD—Racing a Baltimore Sunset Down I95, is currently in the Maryland Federation of Art’s Circle Gallery (Annapolis, MD) for their unjuried Midsummer Madness exhibition. See the link to peruse the artworks and information on the upcoming reception. I’d love to see you there!

MFA Studio Tours at SoCo Arts Lab

 I had a great time pretending to have a real studio at the Arts Lab of South County (Deale, MD), who hosted me for the MFA’s 2nd an aural studio tours event. Using the angled walls of my “bonus-room” hideaway efficiently was a challenge (in a good way) and everyone there was super-nice. Many thanks to SoCo Arts Lab for their warm hospitality!

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

MFA Spring Member Show 2023 complete

 I had a good time at the reception last night for the 2023 Maryland Federation of Art Spring Member Show. Thanks to everyone who came out!

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.