January 16, 2012 at 4:36 am (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, building, city, jen, life, ourdoor, paint, painting, park, Philadelphia, philly, plein air, pretty, rittenhouse, scene, series, square, street, tracy, travel, urban
This week, I finished the final watercolor in my Rittenhouse Square series. All four paintings were created on site, outdoors in Philly. It started in spring. My paints dried quickly in summer. I’m quite proud of fall. Winter was warm this year.
Be There.
Watercolor paint and ink on paper. 4.5″ x 6″ (11.4 cm x 15.2 cm).
Unframed: $215.00
October 19, 2011 at 7:02 pm (Sketches, watercolor on paper)
Tags: #ows, 99, art, artist, ashmen, building, city, jen, landscape, life, line, movement, new, ny, nyc, occupy, park, people, protest, record, report, river, signs, sketchbook, skyline, street, tracy, travel, trees, urban, view, wall, wash, york
I’ve just returned from New York city. Already, I miss it.
Up until now, my paintings of the Occupy Wall Street movement have been from photographs. It is not very fulfilling to paint from photographs. I went to New York so I could paint from life. And I painted a lot.
#OWS. Watercolor and ink on paper. 6″ x 7″.
It was shocking how many people at the demonstration were not protesting. It seemed there were more journalists and people taking pictures then there were occupiers. That was a common theme in New York. New Yorkers seems to prefer recording and observing life more than participating. The following sketch is of the back of a CNN reporter. Her lights were bright, and her cameras never stopped running.
It was tough to get a good painting spot in the hectic, protesting park. There were marches and performance art, reporters and giant puppets. The landscape was ever changing. The people occupying Wall Street were constantly cleaning. They moved tents to scrub the sidewalk. There was a whole crew of people in masks that did nothing but wander the park and sweep. When I was there, the square smelled more like Pine-Sol than a corner of New York.
The last painting I completed of those standing for the 99% is a little more abstract than my usual watercolors. I wanted to capture the constant motion, the idea that there is something happening here.
What It Is. Watercolor and ink on paper. 6″ x 5.5″.
Unframed: $200.00
October 14, 2011 at 3:12 am (watercolor on paper)
Tags: 99, america, american, art, artist, building, city, crowd, debt, flag, ink, landscape, movement, new york, occupy, painter, painting, paper, pen, people, percent, progress, protest, sky, street, urban, video, wall, wallstreet, watercolor
I’m painting the New York protesters, but I’m not painting the words on their signs. The Occupy Wall Street movement has no spokesperson. There are no slogans or catch phrases. The beauty of the occupation lies with its inability to be marketed. It does not matter to me what the signs say. These paintings are about the people.
Louder Than Words. Watercolor and ink on paper. 6″ x 5.5″.
September 13, 2011 at 10:01 pm (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, arting, artist, bars, brush, building, city, green, ink, jen, jennifer, lamp, landscape, light, paint, painter, painting, park, pen, Philadelphia, post, rittenhouse square, shadow, sidewalk, sketchbook, social, tracy, urban, venetian red, verdant, watercolor
When I’m in the suburbs, I paint tall buildings. When I’m in the city, I paint park scenes. I don’t get it either.
Below is another painting of Rittenhouse Square. Philadelphia in late summer makes me smile.
Eye Contact. Watercolor paint and ink on paper. 4.5″ x 6″ (11.4 cm x 15.2 cm).
September 1, 2011 at 2:25 am (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, bank, building, design, downtown, drawing, egg harbor city, houses, illustration, ink, intimate, jen, landscape, life, miami, paint, painter, painting, paper, pen, pink, quick, red, scape, security, shopping, sketch, small, street, town, tracy, urban, watercolor, wells fargo, wet, yellow
Painting little snippets of life on any given street is becoming a favorite past time of mine. The following two paintings are of practically random buildings. They are both quite small works. Each was completed in a relatively short amount of time. I feel the speed in which they were painted contribute to their intimacy and vitality.
Miami Security Building. Watercolor paint, pen, and ink on paper. 4.5″ x 6″ (11.4 cm x 15.2 cm).
Wells Fargo Corner. Watercolor paint, pen, and ink on paper. 4.5″ x 6″ (11.4 cm x 15.2 cm).
July 21, 2011 at 11:33 pm (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, asbury, avenue, bench, building, city, corner, door, drug, hydrant, jen, life, light, new jersey, ocean, paint, painted, painter, painting, plant, pole, rx, shop, store, therapy, traffic, traval, wall, yellow
Below is last night’s weekly Ocean City painting.
Jazzy Drugs. Watercolor and ink on paper. 5″ x 7″
Unframed: $200
July 14, 2011 at 5:10 pm (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, bench, building, business, candy, cuisine, downtwon, food, ink, jen, local, paint, painting, pink, purple, road, shop, sidewalk, sky, stairs, street, summer, sweet, tracy, travel, watercolor
I love summer. I love sweets. I love how this mid July painting of a candy shop turned out. Chocolate covered strawberries, mmmmm.
Summer Sweet Shop. Watercolor and Ink on paper. 7″ x 6″ (17.8 cm x 15.2 cm).
Unframed: $200.00
June 30, 2011 at 7:06 pm (landscape, watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, asbury, ashmen, avenue, beauty, building, business, city, comminuty, competition, downtown, ink, jen, local, mark, ocean, paint, painting, paper, plant, sky, small, street, town, tracy, wall, watercolor, window
Last night was the first Evenings Along Asbury of the summer. Besides great community events, every Wednesday throughout the summer there is a plein air event in Ocean City. Through this paint out I have met fantastic local artists like Ryan Simmons, Chuck Law, and Martini.
As an artist, most of what I create is done in solitude. Evenings Along Asbury gives me a chance to work adjacent to other painters for an entire season. Needless to say, I look forward to it all year. It is refreshing to see the downtown come together for the sake of the arts.
The following piece was painted last night between 5 and 7:30 pm. It won third place in the first Ocean City Fine Arts paint out of 2011.
Sunset. Watercolor and Ink on paper. 7″ x 6″ (17.8 cm x 15.2 cm).
Unframed: $200.00
June 15, 2011 at 8:30 pm (ACEO)
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Here is a small ACEO I painted in about fifteen minutes. It is a small sketch of a tiny corner in Philadelphia.
I’ve made a resolution to visit Philly once a week this summer. Expect more urban sketches.
City Sketch. Ink and watercolor on matte board. 2.5″x3.5″ (6.4cmx8.9cm).
April 19, 2011 at 1:08 am (watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, atlantic, brown, building, bush, car, city, county, course, grass, green, horse, ink, jersey, life, new, outdoors, paint, painting, place, race, red, road, scene, sport, spot, tourism, track, travel, tree, USA, visit, viw, watercolor, weeds
I’ve lived in Atlantic County, New Jersey for a little over two years now. There are many historic gems in this part of the state. This morning I painted the Atlantic City Race Course. Honestly, I don’t know much about the building. It just struck me as a place that had some stuff happen in it.
Jennifer Tracy 
