2021 Summer Workshop Online from US Botanic Gardens
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Saturday, July 10th 11:30 am-1 pm
Drawing Cacti and Succulents in Colored Pencil Beginner and experienced artists alike can learn how to draw their favorite houseplants in color! In this online workshop with Mary Ellen, discover fundamental drawing skills, access confidence in representing the natural world on paper, and learn techniques for working with color to help capture the beauty and vividness of cacti and succulents. |
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Peonies, 2019 Woodblock Reduction Print with hand painted Monotype details
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Upcoming Virtual Exhibit
Biennial Printmaking Exhibit Juried by Susan J. Goldman Highlights Works by Artists from Across the Region https://www.blackrockcenter.org/visual-arts |
2021 Winter and Spring Workshops Online from US Botanic Gardens
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Saturday, March 20th 11:30 am-12:30 pm
EARLY SPRING FLOWERS IN WATERCOLOR Beginner and experienced artists can celebrate the beauty and color of spring during this online art workshop. Join me as I demonstrate how to create vibrant and lively paintings of field and garden favorites in watercolor. Discover watercolor and compositional techniques that will help you paint like a pro. |
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Saturday, February 6th 11:30am-12:30 pm
DRAWING WINTER TREES IN PENCIL AND INK Drawing trees in winter is a great way for beginner and experienced artists to understand structure, scale, and proportion. Join me for this online art workshop as I demonstrates how to develop your style through compositional principles and techniques, from both Eastern and Western traditions, using both pencil and ink. I will also share pro tips on how to make media from botanical sources and create stained papers. Couldn't make the workshop? Don't be disappointed! check out my Botanical Art and Design Page on this site! Want to learn more? Contact me! |
Corporate Connections at Maryland Federation of Art: Fall 2020
Two Upcoming Online Workshops from US Botanic Gardens
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Celebrate Spring and learn to draw without ever having to leave home by attending one or both of these workshops! For details and registration click on the links below:
All you need are simple drawing materials for both workshops:
1 sketchpad 9”x 12” or acid-free drawing paper 1 2H pencil; 1 B pencil; 1 F pencil 1 set of permanent black ink drawing pens, nib sizes 01-07 Assorted sizes paper tortillions and/or stumps for blending 1 small pocket pencil sharpener 1 “pink pearl” or similar type eraser 1 kneaded eraser 1 colored pencil blender 1 set of 12 colored pencils Questions? Contact me! |
Six Works Three Digital Shows
View these shows digitally by clicking on the links below:
Art League Student Faculty Show at the Torpedo Factory
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Dawn to Dusk, a wood block reduction print 20"x30" will be on display from February 19th to March 1st, 2020 in Old Town Alexandria in the Art League Gallery, Room 21 in the Torpedo Factory. 
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Winter Workshop at
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Can't make the full day workshop in February?
Saturday, March 21 2-4pm
Drop In and Try It! Drawing with a Camera Lucida
Enjoy one of Washington DC's treasures, the cherry blossoms from and entirely new perspective through a camera lucida! Learn about how this optical device has long been an aide to scientists and illustrators since the early 17th century. Complete beginners and experienced artists will enjoy seeing an entirely new universe of beautiful detail through its lens while boosting your drawing confidence and skill! No registration required, just drop in and try it!
Saturday, March 21 2-4pm
Drop In and Try It! Drawing with a Camera Lucida
Enjoy one of Washington DC's treasures, the cherry blossoms from and entirely new perspective through a camera lucida! Learn about how this optical device has long been an aide to scientists and illustrators since the early 17th century. Complete beginners and experienced artists will enjoy seeing an entirely new universe of beautiful detail through its lens while boosting your drawing confidence and skill! No registration required, just drop in and try it!
Back Again In Annapolis, MD in The Circle Gallery!
My artistically inspiring feline is getting lots of time in the lime light this month! If you miss him at Gallery 564 you can see him at Maryland Federation of Art’s Circle Gallery on State Circle in Old Town in the Small Wonders Exhibit on view from December 4th-29th.
Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education: Character and Arts Event
Art and The Soul
The Creative Arts as a Tool for Character Development:
A Day at the National Gallery led by Artist and Art Educator Mary Ellen Carsley
Thursday, November 14, 2019
10:00am-3:30pm
Throughout the centuries, Art has been regarded as the soul of humanity. Aristotle defines The Soul as both potentiality and actuality. It is alive and real. Art is that aspect of the human soul which both reflects and defines growth, potential, values, and form in human culture. It both reflects and shapes the soul of a culture.
Spend the day exploring the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection as you learn strategies to encourage positive character development through the visual arts. In addition to touring highlights of the collection, this will be a hands-on day of discovery and learning how to better foster student engagement in exploring art as both a mirror of and shaper of societal ethical values. These are activities you will be able to take back to your teaching studios to help your students develop critical seeing, thinking, and listening skills, as well as practice in civility and making cross curricular connections. Tips for navigating difficult topics, building cross curricular units, and creative lesson planning using a wide variety of museum resources that are budget and time friendly will also be presented.
1. To encourage Visual Arts teachers to integrate ethical values into their current curriculum into order to foster student engagement, critical thinking, and civility skills, and practice in listening, observing and perceiving.
2. To provide teachers with simple strategies in employing the visual arts into a student driven conversation regarding ethical values as well encouraging cross curricular connections.
3. To introduce teachers to easily accessible resources that they can use to create a new lesson plan, rework an old lesson plan, or introduce a new cross curricular unit in an engaging and logistically feasible way.
The Creative Arts as a Tool for Character Development:
A Day at the National Gallery led by Artist and Art Educator Mary Ellen Carsley
Thursday, November 14, 2019
10:00am-3:30pm
Throughout the centuries, Art has been regarded as the soul of humanity. Aristotle defines The Soul as both potentiality and actuality. It is alive and real. Art is that aspect of the human soul which both reflects and defines growth, potential, values, and form in human culture. It both reflects and shapes the soul of a culture.
Spend the day exploring the National Gallery of Art’s permanent collection as you learn strategies to encourage positive character development through the visual arts. In addition to touring highlights of the collection, this will be a hands-on day of discovery and learning how to better foster student engagement in exploring art as both a mirror of and shaper of societal ethical values. These are activities you will be able to take back to your teaching studios to help your students develop critical seeing, thinking, and listening skills, as well as practice in civility and making cross curricular connections. Tips for navigating difficult topics, building cross curricular units, and creative lesson planning using a wide variety of museum resources that are budget and time friendly will also be presented.
1. To encourage Visual Arts teachers to integrate ethical values into their current curriculum into order to foster student engagement, critical thinking, and civility skills, and practice in listening, observing and perceiving.
2. To provide teachers with simple strategies in employing the visual arts into a student driven conversation regarding ethical values as well encouraging cross curricular connections.
3. To introduce teachers to easily accessible resources that they can use to create a new lesson plan, rework an old lesson plan, or introduce a new cross curricular unit in an engaging and logistically feasible way.
Summer 2019 Workshops and Classes:
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A NEW COURSE!!!
Design, Draw and Paint Your Dream Garden Date: Saturday & Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m, August 10-11 Location: United States Botanic Garden This course is designed for the gardening enthusiast who also enjoys sketching and would like to try their hand at garden design. The course will include an overview of the history of gardens, particularly gardens in America as inspiration. Fundamentals of design drawing, landscape sketching, and garden design strategies will be introduced. Each student will leave with a garden design and “dream’ garden vignette sketch all in color. |
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Upcoming Class: How to Draw and Painting Orchids at US Botanic Gardens DC
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Date: Sunday, January 27, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM This course is designed for beginning and intermediate students interested in developing their drawing and painting skills with botanical subjects. In this course, we will focus on orchids, a diverse and beautiful group. The workshop will include a careful study of line, light, shade, shadow, basic color theory, and botanical anatomy. We will cover basic compositional principles, from both Eastern and Western traditions, and an exploration of dry and wet media, including pencil, ink, colored pencil, and basic watercolor. We will also explore how to make media from botanical sources, creating stained papers, and using the media in a field sketching environment. |
St. John's College, Annapolis, MD:
Community Art Exhibition 2019
Two Works on View,
including the completed Sparrows and Doves.
Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD: Two works on view in Art on Paper 2019
Exhibit opens March 28th, 2019
In Annapolis, MD: One work on view in December 2018
Small Wonders
14th annual small works show at the Maryland Federation of Art's Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle.
Over 100 works from artists around the country, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico.
Exhibition Dates: December 1-December 22
https://mdfedart.com/
14th annual small works show at the Maryland Federation of Art's Circle Gallery, 18 State Circle.
Over 100 works from artists around the country, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico.
Exhibition Dates: December 1-December 22
https://mdfedart.com/
In Elmira, NY: Three works on view November thru December 2018:
Portobello received Honorable Mention!
Small Works 2018
A National Juried Exhibition of Artwork 12 inches or Smaller
Our fifth annual Small Works, juried by Rick Pirozzolo, executive director and curator at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY, is a national juried exhibition of work 12 inches or smaller. The exhibition features the work of 103 artists from 26 states.
Exhibition Dates: November 16 – December 15, 2018
http://www.mainstreetartsgallery.com/
A National Juried Exhibition of Artwork 12 inches or Smaller
Our fifth annual Small Works, juried by Rick Pirozzolo, executive director and curator at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, NY, is a national juried exhibition of work 12 inches or smaller. The exhibition features the work of 103 artists from 26 states.
Exhibition Dates: November 16 – December 15, 2018
http://www.mainstreetartsgallery.com/
