Green Eyes

I started this one last Sunday. It's about half sheet (22"x15").

Mentioned in the Old Town Crier

In this month's issue of the Old Town Crier, art critic F. Lennox Campello reviews three local artists, including myself. An excerpt from his article reads:

"Jenny's first ever review appeared in these pages a few years ago, when I ran into some of her watercolors in her mother's studio (the talented Tanya Davis) and praised them thinking that they were Tanya's work. At the time Jenny was 13 years old and had not taken a single art lesson and was already delivering amazing and mature work."

You can find the full article here. You can also check out Mr. Campello's art criticism blog, Mid Atlantic Art News, here.

Katie Tuss Reviews "Women's Work"

Katie Tuss, writing at Mid Atlantic Art News, recently reviewed "Women's Work" at Nevin Kelly Gallery. In the article, Tuss shares her commentary on the variety of work in the show. You can read the whole article here.

The show features pieces by Molly Brose, Mary Chiaramonte, Laurel Hausler, Abbe McGray, and myself, and runs through April 8.

Portrait of Diana

Portrait of Diana, 21"x18"

Portrait of Julia

Portrait of Julia, 22"x15"

Ceramics Sketches

Just some sketches I did last Tuesday in Ceramics. I finished up early and there wasn't enough time to start anything new, seeing as it was the last session before spring break - so I did some drawings of my classmates at work:

Thanks!

I just wanted to say thanks to Nevin Kelly for the good wishes on his gallery blog, and to F. Lennox Campello for the congratulations on Mid Atlantic Art News. Thanks also to Nicholas Simmons and the folks over at WetCanvas! for their kind words.

The Harriet Newbill Art Competition 2007

Portrait of Tess (watercolor, 23 x 23) won first prize at The National Society of Arts & Letters Washington Chapter Career Awards Competition 2007. This award, the Harriet L. Newbill 2007 prize for water media on paper, was judged by Walter Bartman, Director and Founder of The Yellow Barn, Bethesda, Maryland; Judith Brodie, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Stephen Bennett Phillips, Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Nicholas Simmons, Artist, Washington, D.C.

The NSAL's Washington Chapter will sponsor me at the National Competition in May. Portrait of Tess will be one of 28 local chapter winners presented at the Performing Arts Center in Tempe, Arizona.
Nick Simmons represented the jurors at the reception and awards announcement today, and it was an honor to meet him! Visit his website here.

The competition was stiff and the show is beautiful. All the finalists' work will be on display through March 25 at Heineman Myers Contemporary Art in Bethesda, MD.

Sneak Peek of "Women's Work"

Julia Morelli, the Deputy Director over at Nevin Kelly Gallery, has posted some sneak peeks of the upcoming show "Women's Work" on the gallery's blog. The show opens this Wednesday, with the reception Thursday from 6-9PM. You can see some pictures of the work that will be on display, as well as the press release, here.

Speech Sketches

I drew my classmates while they were giving their speeches last Thursday in Communications. Here's a couple sketches I did.





And here's a drawing I did Friday in art.


My friend Michelle was being a hand model for me. The hands were all done with charcoal pencil, and the other two sketches were with micron pens.

Just Because

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. Once I finish a couple commissions, I'll start posting pictures of paintings again. For now, here's a sketch I did Tuesday in Communications... Look closely (and decipher my handwriting) and you'll see where the title of this post came from.




And some studies from Drawing.

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!