Showing my art work!

These are shots from the Art League of

Germantown show just held this past

weekend. It is a three day show and is

called "Winterglow".

I love taking shots of people at the show!

And of course I have to show you what

paintings of mine were in this one.

After all, you have watched them develop

on this blog, and now you see the results!

The show!

Here are two shots of the recent show

done together with my sister who

designs and makes jewelry. It was

a good show for us both and we were

happy to see the return of some folks

as well as new people to our show.

Here you have a shot of some of my

sister's display area and then a work

in progress on my easel.

Sister Act II - How it looked!

Here are photos of my sister's jewelry

displays. She has a lot of new work

I hadn't seen. Gorgeous colored stones

such as jasper and sujalite (spelling?)

which is a beautiful purple stone. The

last photo is where she was showing

those in attendance a few of the ways to

use her scarf slides. You can see some

of them in the photo just before that one.

Click on the images to enlarge.

By the way, her Etsy site is Sandys Creations:

Just us the link in this blog in the right column!

More of Sister Act II

A few shots of people looking at our artwork!

Sister Act II

Here we are in front of a few of my small paintings.

It was a really wonderful experience and well

attended. So we were happy! It is always a lot

of work to put on such a show, but then you are

doing it and enjoying the friends and others who

come and all the work part fades away and leaves

you with the fun of it!

More reception fun!

I have two cameras that I have at

my shows. So here are more views

of this past weekend's reception for

my solo show at Frederick Cellars

from the 'other' camera!

I am now in the follow up stages with

thank yous to all who helped and attended.

As well as to some who expressed an interest in

having a painting from this show. I am

happy with the results and you can see from

the last photo that my wonderful assistant

Julie and I are very pleased indeed!

My art reception is tomorrow

I am really excited about this show. It is a solo show and is for the entire month of September.
I did a show at this winery last June and am so pleased to be having another one, which is of all new work for it.

Frederick Cellars (www.frederickcellars.com) is an excellent place to have an art show. The staff is wonderful and helpful and the space really lends itself to art looking good on the mostly gold walls.

I will report on how it goes and post photos of the day!

Show Hanging Day!

I have rarely tried to post
more than one or two photos
at a time, but I wanted to share
these with you of hanging my
current show at Frederick
Cellars winery, a wonderful place in Frederick, Maryland.

The first photo is of my assistant Julie and my friend
Linda who came to help me. Linda is our Art League's
gal who directs all those show hangings, so she knows
what she is doing in choosing and placing things that
look good together.


Here I am putting the labels on
a few paintings. The portrait in
this photo is a giclee (print) I had
made of a recent commission.






Linda and Julie getting the hook
on the painting wire!


Isn't this looking easy? They
do the work and I take the bow!
Well, I will take credit for doing
a LOT of paintings and new
work for this show. Do go to
http://www.frederickcellars.com/
if you want to know how to find this place!

Getting ready for art show

My Art League will have its spring show

in a few weeks and so here are some of

the pieces I will show. I am waiting til

the last minute to varnish them! And

to take them to the framer who has already

ordered what I want.

Check out my Slide Show!

Since I have been posting a few pics of the reception

each day, I thought just going for the whole thing

would be better! Besides, seeing all these at once

(and NO, these are not all my photos of the event!)

would give a closer 'feel' to how it was. So there you

have it.

Art viewing at the winery

Some friends and visitors to the winery looking

at my work (always gratifying!). And then a shot

of the whole place with the wine bar on the right

and the art on the walls to the left. Gives you an

idea of the set up. It was so enjoyable for all who

came from their comments and smiles!

Hang it all!

The day came this week, after months of creating

new works and all that goes into it. My wonderful

friend Robin (on the right) and my new and angel-like

assistant Kathy helped me hang the winery show!

(If I called Robin angelic, she would get a devilish

look just to prove me wrong!)

I, smiling in the middle, could not have done this on

my own. Robin had the SUV and between that and

my own vehicle, we loaded twentyeight pieces and

set forth up the road to www.frederickcellars.com

where tomorrow night the reception will be.

Expect to see more photos soon.

Demonstration of glazing with oil paint

This is a shot that includes everything I was working

with to demonstrate how you glaze color over a

dry underpainting. The underpainting was done

in raw umber and titanium white and allowed to

dry completely. Then layers of color are applied,

each one needing to dry before the next one is put

on. I use an alkyd medium as the glaze medium.

In the 'olden days' I made my own glazing mixture.

But hey, I don't use tin cans and string to make

calls anymore either!

What I've been doing!

This past weekend was the spring show of our

Art League which I founded some 25 years ago.

When one is doing an art show there is a great

deal of preparation leading up to it, actually being

there and doing the various jobs and then breaking it

down and putting one's materials and paintings

away. I did a demo of how to do glazing in oil

painting. I'll post a shot of that eventually. This

gives the big picture to the variety of work done

my our members and the very good attendance

that we get.

More art show

Here is the painting you saw some time

ago. All framed up and hanging at the

show. While it hasn't yet sold, it had a

lot of very good feedback and so I know

it finds a good home eventually!

The Art Show

Here was the view I had as I was

doing the demonstration in the post

from yesterday. These two lovely

girls had just greeted each other and

were catching up. You can see the

free-standing wall behind them that

makes it possible to show the work

of over 40 artists that participated

this time. We do this show twice a

year.

Check out The Art League

of Germantown for more information.

http://www.alog.org

Demonstration

Today I did a demonstration for an art group I

started nearly 25 years ago. We hold our shows

at BlackRock Center for the Arts and it is a

gorgeous space. You can get a bit of the feel of

the large gallery and its light in this picture.

The art behind me and to my right are by fellow

members. It is always so enjoyable to talk to

people about what I love to do.