Atlantic City and I have a love hate relationship, but warm weather is coming so we may be setting aside our differences.
Visit Sunny Atlantic City. Watercolor and ink on paper. 5″ x 5″.
Unframed: $250
Lady Luck
March 23, 2012 at 4:33 am (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, Atlantic City, bathing suit, beauty, blue, fashion, hat, ink, jen, life, paint, painting, paper, payne's grey, pen, portrait, post card, red, summer, sunny, tracy, travel, vintage, visit, watercolor, woman
Ballet Rehearsal
March 2, 2012 at 12:17 am (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, Atlantic City, ballerina, ballet, beauty, company, culture, dance, elegance, face, hair, ink, jen, movement, paint, painter, paintings, pen, performance, point, portraits, rehearsal, shoe, tracy, watercolor
This morning I had the privilege of painting the Atlantic City Ballet as they rehearsed. The company’s beauty absolutely stunned me. Their skill, dedication, elegance, and joy truly moved me. It is my deep hope to work with them again.
As this was a rehearsal, I worked as they danced. These sketches are fast, wet, and unrefined.
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Mural at The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Complex
June 16, 2011 at 4:36 pm (mural)
Tags: african american, art, Art Dorrington, artist, ashmen, Atlantic City, baseball, beautiful, board walk, children, culture, design, education, figures, historical, history, hockey, huge, interior, Jacob Lawrence, james, jen, jersey, Johanna Leseign, John Henry "Pop" Lloyd, monopoly, mural, museum, new jersey, northside, noyes, paint, painting, project, Sarah Spencer Washington, school, south, usry, wall
The mural at The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Complex in Atlantic City, NJ is the largest I’ve ever painted. It is approximately sixty feet long and ten feet high. Due to its dimensions, photographing the piece was particularly difficult.
This is my second mural in conjunction with Stockton’s Center for Community Schools. The mural was made possible by the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, the Noyes Museum of Art, Lowe’s, and the Atlantic County Board of Education. Special thanks to the African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey for aiding in the research process. The mural depicts Black history of Atlantic City. Sarah Spencer Washington, Jacob Lawrence, Art Dorrington, Johanna Leseign, John Henry “Pop” Lloyd, and James Usry are some of the figures included in the work.
Detail of Sarah Spencer Washington and Pop Lloyd:
Two eighth graders assisting with painting of Ms. America and the Convention Center:
Me, working during the early stages of the mural:
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New York Avenue School Mural
June 19, 2010 at 1:14 pm (mural)
Tags: acrylic, aquatic, art, artist, ashmen, Atlantic City, beauty, bubbles, children, community, eel, elementary, gulf, jashme, jen, knox, life, mural, new york, ocean, octopus, paint, painting, public, reed, school, sea, seahorse, stockton, wall, water
The aquatic mural at New York Avenue School is my first mural in conjunction with Stockton’s Center for Community Schools. The program is designed to bring art, culture, and life skills to the children of Atlantic City. Unlike my other work on this blog, the under water mural is not something I painted alone. The children of New York Avenue school aided in the design and painting of this mural. Their art teacher, Ms. Liz Parsons, also was a part of the ocean mural’s creation. Sharing the process of making a mural was a joy. The children learned a lot and have a wall in their school they can forever be proud of. Our finished coral reef is gorgeous.
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Second Majesty
January 31, 2010 at 4:03 am (ink on paper, Sketchbook Saturday!)
Tags: art, artist, Atlantic City, bar, casino, draw, drawing, entertainment, gesture, gypsy, india, ink, life, majesty, music, paper, rock, saturday, second, show, sketch, sketchbook
Last night, I went to the Gypsy Bar in Atlantic City to see Second Majesty perform. Here are the few sketches from the event. Enjoy the rest of your Sketchbook Saturday!
Boardwalk Birds and People
July 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm (ink on paper)
Tags: art, Atlantic City, beach, birds, boardwalk, doodle, drawing, glasses, ink, jen ashmen, life, men, new jersey, paper, pen, people, portrait, seagulls, shore, sketchbook, sun, women
This is a nice summery sketch for this fourth of July Saturday. People and birds on the New Jersey boardwalk in Atlantic City.
