Hill Center Galleries, Washington, DC

My pastel painting "See No Evil" will be hanging in the Hill Center's Regional Juried Exhibit for two more weeks until September 1, 2013. It is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE with the hours on the invitation. Let me know if you went by to see it!

Second Saturday in Gallery 902

Under the Crape Myrtle, Easton

Painting in Plein Air Easton's Quick Draw is always a rush. I captured this scene of brilliant caladium in the Talbot County Historical Society's beautiful garden.

Under the Crape Myrtle
pastel on Wallis Belgian Mist
12x9

Creative Alliance Annual Exhibit, The Big Show

See my pastel painting, Naples Fresh, in The Big Show at Baltimore's Creative Alliance and attend the opening Friday, July 12 from 7-10PM! The exhibit runs through July 31.

Naples Fresh

8x8

pastel

Paint Annapolis

I will admit to being a bit out of practice on painting still life, but I chose painting a sushi window display over painting boats, marinas, or buildings in Annapolis during Dueling Brushes. Please, give me a good landscape or skyscape any day instead! Yet it's all in good fun. Doing a store front beckoned me even before I arrived.

I used a Dakota KOOOL Binder containing Wallis Belgian Mist along with a collapsible wooden Ikea table and a Dick's tripod chair with a back, to which I could attach the Guerrilla umbrella. I like to get up and view from a distance often.

The pastels are a hard pastel combination of Van Goghs and Cretacolors in two small Van Gogh boxes, Faber Castells, and a compilation of old pastel bits, mostly Unison, WN, AS, Mt Vision, and Ludwig varieties fitted into an old Rembrandt box. The set up was very easy to bag and go. Sushi required many colors I don't normally use, so putting them to work was a joy and I was happy with my diverse palette.

More Annapolis sights with a few other pastelists in the adult and kids's divisions...

Thanks to Tina for photography.

Hill Center Galleries at the Old Naval Hospital, DC

As my first time to exhibit in Washington, DC, my pastel painting "See No Evil" will be at Hill Center's Regional Juried Exhibit until September 1, 2013. It is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave SE with the hours on the card. Let me know if you went by to see it!

The Big Show at Creative Alliance, Baltimore

I've joined Creative Alliance in Baltimore! Their eighteenth annual member exhibit, The Big Show, runs June 29 through July 31 with the opening Friday, July 12 from 7-10PM. I have one pastel in it and can't wait to see the other great art in Baltimore. The theme centers on movement and I have a little different interpretation of it: fresh laundry in the breeze.

Washington's Hill Center Galleries at Old Naval Hospital

My first time to exhibit in Washington, DC, I will have a pastel painting in the Hill Center's Open Regional Juried Exhibit from June 25-September 1, 2013. I am honored to be juried in by Jack Rassmussen, Director and Curator of the American University at the Katzen Arts Center.

Thanks for your support!

RAW Baltimore was a huge rush and so much fun. I am so appreciative of the friends and family who bought tickets and came out on a rainy night! And for the superb help I received with the logistics. 

Here are a few of the pictures from the night, mostly taken by RAW Baltimore photographer, Meagan. They speak to the variety of items I had there, everything from photography to pastels to mixed media to fiber to silver earrings. 

 There were several pieces that were particularly well received by this hungry, passionate, interesting, and well informed crowd of art lovers. 

The Two Dips series, named for obvious reasons when you see the photo, are color enhanced according to the gelato flavor they represent. 

The little girl, who I call Young Capitalist, clutches her wad of play money and, according to her mom, she takes it and her purse everywhere she goes. While quite discerning, she is both stoic and confident. 

The young lady of Entering Waverly Market was perhaps the most spontaneously well received. I was glad she spoke to the viewers as she spoke to me. 

My two larger pastels also caught the eye of many, particularly the moodiness of Morning Drive. My third, larger pastel, was the victim of broken glass for the evening, but it was not damaged, thank goodness! Transport, set up, and take down - what a bear!

Mason's Landing to the Potomac Study

Needing to flex our plein air muscles, we recently went to Gunston Hall, the Mason Neck home George Mason, Patriot and author of the Bill of Rights. The home is located on a hill, up from the Potomac River, and it has a small feeder branch from which Mason received shipments.

The watercolor underpainting was done at the same time for a larger work on Pastelmat. That painting follow...

Mason's Landing to the Potomac Study
soft pastel on Uart 400 with watercolor underpainting
4x6