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. 

 

Photo #1—> Digital Painting complete

This was a commission. I had done a similar conversion last year, which was then printed on aluminum and hangs in their home, of the wife of the couple in a kayak. This one is of the husband in a dragon boat. 

This is the completed painting. The original photo and painting of the kayak are below. 

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.

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. 

Hospice Cup Pster Competition 2025

 Here is my entry. Of course there are things I see now that should be different but I ran out of time. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Which composition do you like better? I submitted the cropped one but now that I look I’m not sure I like it more now. 

First exhibition of 2025

 See my Instagram for more!

2024 Wrap-up—13 exhibitions!

What a year! Somehow I ended up having work in 13 exhibitions, TEN of which were juried! Definitely trolled my pool of work from the last 3 years for these, and leaned into photography a bit, but wow.  Here they are:

LIGHT AND SHADOW, Juror: Leah Triplett Harringtion

Maryland Federation of Art (Curve Gallery, on-line), Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: TBA

Beyond. 16x20 inches, archival print of digital photograph 

AFTER DARK, Juror: Crista Pisano

Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart-afdk2024.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php

Under The Light Of The Moon. 12x15 inches, archival print of digital photograph 

ELEMENTAL: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER, Juror: Tim Jaeger 

Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart-elm2024.artcall.org/pages/web-gallery,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php 

1 - The Lottery, 14x17 inches, acrylic on canvas panel

NOTE: The Lottery was chosen by MFA to be the face image of this exhibition, 

with a detail as the website banner and thumbnail as an entry link to the exhibition web page.

2 - Time To Go. 10x23 inches. Archival print of digital photograph

THE CHANGING AMERICAS, Juror: Chan Chao 

Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart.com/wp4/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/The-Changing-Americas-2024-Prospectus.pdf,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php



Second Story: Mc Garvey’s Dockside Dining By The Park, 10x14 inches, acrylic on canvas panel

BE SQUARE, Not juried

Maryland Federation of Art, (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall) Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart.com/wp4/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Be-Square-2024-Prospectus_vff.pdfView,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php 

Dare To Believe You Are Beautiful, 9x9 inches, inkjet print of digital collage

ART IN ABSTRACTION, Juror: Filipe Assuncao

Maryland Federation of Art, (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall) Annapolis, MD, USA

Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart.com/wp4/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Art-in-Abstraction-2024-vf.pdf,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php 

Con -tagion/-finement. 24x27 inches, giclee print of digital painting

PAINT ANNAPOLIS, Public Artist, Not Juried

Maryland Federation of Art (Pop-up Gallery) Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart.com/paintannapolis

🔴SOLD in gallery

St. Mary’s Steeple. 8x10 inches, acrylic on canvas panel

    

Flowers Before The Storm. 7x10 inches, acrylic on canvas panel

Field House Flowers, 12x22 inches, acrylic on canvas

COMMUNITY 24, Juried

AND Creative, Maryland Federation of Art, (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall), Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://www.annearundelarts.com/schedule1

Summit (E. Atlantic Dune Crossing, Fenwick Island, DE). 14x23 inches watercolor and acrylic ink on paper

OUR AMERICAN SOUL , Juror: Robert Yi 

Arlington Arts Alliance (Gallery Underground, Arlington: Crystal City, VA)
Exhibition Website: https://ouramericansoul.artcall.org/ 

Mind The Glass: 20x26 inches. Digital painting printed on Kodak Endura Professional Metallic Paper, in custom-painted frame with found object glass

STREET SCENES, Juror: J. Susan Isaacs

Maryland Federation of Art, (Curve Gallery, on-line) Annapolis, MD, USA
Exhibition Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NphcqWoOsmE,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php  

Juxtaposition: 8x10 inches, giclee print of digital photograph

MÉLENGE I, Not juried

Maryland Federation of Art (Circle Gallery), Annapolis, MD, USA

Exhibition Website: https://www.instagram.com/mdfedart/reel/C33RPrEMKFs/ 

MFA members meeting criteria of having volunteered, submitted for a MFA call for art, and donated an artwork to MFA's Collector's Choice fundraiser, were awarded 120 inches of wall space in the gallery for a period of 2 weeks.




12 artworks displayed

DIGITAL DIRECTIONS, Juror: Lawrence Acadias

Maryland Federation of Art, (Martino Gallery, Maryland Hall) Annapolis, MD, USA

Exhibition Website: https://mdfedart-digitaldirections2024.artcall.org/pages/web-galleryView,  https://mdfedart.com/mfaentry/archive/archgallery1.php  

 

Epidemiologue: Giclee print of digital painting

BWI EXHIBIT 38: WINTER AROUND THE WORLD, Juried

Arts Council of Anne Arundel County (BWI Departures, Baltimore, MD, USA)

Exhibition Website: https://artscouncilofannearundelcountynew.submittable.com/gallery/b6187132-6a09-4d13-b256-40c0406ab9db

 

 Follow The White Rabbit. 16x20 inches. Acrylic on canvas panel