The Harriet Newbill Art Competition 2007

Four of my pieces (Katelynn, Megan, Portrait of Tess, and Margaret) have been selected for the National Society of Arts and Letters' Harriet Newbill Art Competition. This exhibit will take place in Heineman Myers Contemporary Art, in Bethesda, Maryland, from March 14 to March 25. The opening reception will be March 18 from 2 to 4PM.

Heineman Myers Contemporary Art
4728 Hampden Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814

Women's Work

This spring I'll be participating in a group show at Nevin Kelly Gallery in Washington, DC. Titled "Women's Work", the show will feature my work, as well as work by four other talented female artists: Molly Brose, Mary Chiaramonte, Laurel Hausler, and Abbe McGray. The show will run from March 14 to April 8, 2007, and the opening reception will be from 6-9PM on March 15.

Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 U Street NW
Washington DC 20009

Update

Updated with a better photograph of my most recent painting.

Silver

Here's a picture of a drawing I did today in... Drawing.


I'll post more later this weekend, hopefully.

New Semester, New Doodles

So yesterday was the first day of spring classes. This semester should be pretty good... I just have my last two art classes - Ceramics and Advanced Drawing - plus some general education that I put off until now. I'm just glad I'm done with math! Anyway, my sketches are now limited to what I doodle in Communications (because unfortunately I won't be able to sketch people working out in my Aerobics class) and anything I doodle at the library or other places. Or who knows, maybe I'll bring my sketchbook along to my P.E. lecture, too. We'll see.

I might also post pictures of things I make in Ceramics, but that's if I manage to make something I'm proud of. :-)

Here's a page of doodles from the first day of Communications... It should be an interesting class. The teacher complained that we were being "boring" because nobody raised their hand to answer her questions. So, I'm looking forward to another four months of drawing the backs of people's heads - I mean, four months of studying communications.


And here's a doodle from the cafe.


I just liked this girl's hat.

Guess

Finished this last Thursday. I still haven't thought of a title for it (I'm completely stumped on this one), but oh well, I'll come up with one eventually.


22"x15"

Here It Is Again

I think I'm pretty much done with the face... I just need to finish her left eye and add some more color to her forehead and lips. I need to start focusing on the fingers now.

First Post of 2007 (Wow, How Time Flies)

I can't believe it's 2007. I keep thinking that just can't be right... But time does fly. Anyway, I have three pictures for the first post of the year.


22"x15"
I started this one last week. Relatively speaking, I really haven't done all that many commissions lately, but it still feels like it's been ages since I painted something for myself. It's nice to be back into painting whatever tickles my fancy. I love this one. I'm having so much fun working on it. There's just something about the look on her face that makes me smile.

I've gotten a lot of work done on it since I took this picture, so I'll post a new picture of it this weekend.






18.5"x9.5"
This one is the very last painting of 2006. I finished it just before New Year's. I was on a long-narrow-composition kick when I did this (and maybe I still am... who knows). Okay, it wasn't really a kick. Do four paintings almost in a row count as a kick?






12.25"x10"
Last but not least, I finally got around to photographing this little one, which I absolutely love. You can't see it very well in the photo, but there's a lot of variation between pink and green in her skin that was really fun to do. I painted this because I loved her vaguely moody expression, and how dynamic the pose is.

Merry Christmas

Here's a picture of my new painting for my Christmas post. I started this last Thursday:


I finished my last painting, but the paper's so warped that I can't get a decent photograph of it yet. I'll post a picture once the painting's flattened.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Studio Time

I'll be working in studio 9 in the Torpedo Factory Art Center this holiday season, from December 17 to January 17.
Come and say hi! :-)

Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N. Union St.
Alexandria, VA 22314

New Painting

I just started this one yesterday:


It's 12.25" x 10". Probably about a third of the way done... I need to finish the hair, do the shirt and background, and then finish the face and neck.

Something Fishy

I thought it would be fun to post pictures of a couple of my Color Theory projects. These are both color progression studies, gouache on bristol board.




I got the idea for this one when... uh... I don't know how I got this idea. I was just in a fishy mood, I guess. :-P

Doodles!

Haven't had the time to start a new painting yet, so here are some doodles.


I doodled this during a group presentation in Sociology last week. Lotta people.


And this was from this morning, again in Sociology. The teacher comes in fifteen minutes late every day, and for some reason, there's a piano in the classroom. So this morning before the teacher came in, a couple of guys were playing the piano. They were pretty good. So we had some nice entertainment for a while before class; we got to hear bits of Für Elise, chopsticks, and some other classical songs, as well as some notes from a Beastie Boys song... I've had that stuck in my head all day. And it's still stuck in my head.

Oh, and here's a picture of my cat, helping me photograph my sketchbook.

Portrait of a Girl

I just realized I haven't posted in two weeks. Oops. Sorry about that. I've been incredibly busy lately. Anyway, here's what I've been working on in between the busyness:


Finished it Sunday. It's about 10"x10".

Thanksgiving Weekend

I will be subletting in the Torpedo Factory next weekend. My work will be in Studio 9 from the 24th to the 26th, and I'll be there Friday and Sunday. Hope to see you there! :-)

Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N Union Street
Alexandria VA 22314

Untitled

No title yet, but done nonetheless:


Finished it last Saturday.

Doodles

Doodles from Geology last night:



And doodles of a group presentation in Sociology this morning:

Red and Green...

Started this one last week. I'm about 3/4 the way done on it... Just need to finish the hand and jewelry and then do some touchups. The paper's getting really warped, so it's a pretty distorted photo, but once the painting's done I'll post a better pic.

You Can Tell It's Monday...

... because my car broke down. It's deader than a doorknob. Oh, and one of the door handles just broke, too.
Better to be stranded at home than by the road, though.

Anyway, because I was stranded at home with nothing to do, I broke out my oil paints and did this:


I've been meaning to do an oil painting, but every time I thought of doing it, I didn't have the time. Today, though, I had so much time on my hands I hardly knew what to do with it.

Katie in Shades

Katie in Shades, 26" x 15.5"


Katie in Shades (detail)