June 8, 2011 at 11:27 pm (ink on paper)
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This drawing is being posted as a distraction from the fact that I haven’t updated in almost a month. It is not that I have not been making art. I have been painting every day. I’ve been painting so much that updating my blog has not been a priority. Soon, within a week or two, I will be posting pictures of the largest painting I’ve ever created. It is a sixty foot mural, and it is almost complete. Until then, here is an ink drawing of a kitchen stove.
May 2, 2011 at 3:44 am (watercolor on paper)
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Spring time in Philadelphia is quite an inspiring sight. This watercolor plein air painting of Rittenhouse Square accurately depicts the mood, if not the crowds, of Philly on a breezy May afternoon.
Genuine and Entertaining. 7″ x 6″. Watercolor and ink on paper.
Unframed: $215.00
April 5, 2011 at 6:38 pm (landscape, mixed media, Slender Man)
Tags: art, artist, box, climbing, dirt, forest, grass, hornets, horror, ink, landscape, life, line, man, marble, paint, paper, red, scene, shadow, sillohette, slender, tower, trees, wash, watercolor, woods
December 19, 2010 at 4:22 am (ink on paper, watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, christmas, color, custom, dress, gift, gown, holiday, jen, life, line, paint, painter, painting, portrait, purple, reddit, sketch, splatter, wash, wedding, white
This painting of a wedding gown was commissioned by a fellow Redditor as a Christmas gift for his wife.
The completed piece:
White Dress. Watercolor and ink on paper. 8.5″ x 11″.
SOLD
Preliminary sketches:
November 20, 2010 at 8:42 pm (colored pencil, mixed media, Sketchbook Saturday!, Sketches)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, black, book, calculator, color, deep, draw, drawing, green, hatch, ink, jen, life, light, line, marker, november, pen, pencil, purse, saturday, shadow, skecth, stapler, still, white
Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and somehow I have not managed to update my blog yet this month. I am sorry. Here is a page from my sketchbook to break my artistic silence.
Featured above is my purse, a stapler, and a calculator depicted in pen, marker, and colored pencil. Sketchbook Saturday lives!
Also, I’ve recently revamped my Etsy shop for the upcoming holiday season. For the first time I am selling prints of my plein air paintings. Take a look.
October 24, 2010 at 8:47 pm (ink on paper, Watercolor on panel)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, blue, boutique, deck, door, frog, glass, gree, ink, jen, line, new jersey, NJ, oc, ocean city, paint, painting, paper, plant, red, roof, sidewalk, siding, studio, thick, thin, travel, vane, watercolor, weather, window, yellow
I’m quite fond of my most recent commission. Below is a watercolor and ink painting of Glass Frog Studio and Boutique in Ocean City, New Jersey.
La Grenouille. Watercolor and ink on paper. 9″x12″.
SOLD
September 20, 2010 at 6:10 pm (ink on paper)
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I have a thing for blind boxes.
Junko Mizuno‘s Sammy-kun from her Pure Trance series.
Foreground is Amy Ruppel‘s Dunny series 2009. Background is Damara Kaminecki‘s Dunny series 2010.
September 1, 2010 at 2:30 pm (art news, ink on paper, watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, art center, artist, ashmen, award, beautiful, bright, county, cultural, cumberland, drawing, en, gallery 50, great, hammonton, honor, image, ink, life, line, mannequin, museum, news, noyes, paint, paintings, prize, room, watercolor, woman, won
Below is my painting from week 12 of the Noyes Drawing Room sessions. I’m sure that mannequin has grown quite familiar to you by now.
Museum Mannequin. Watercolor and ink on paper. 5″ x 8.5″.
Unframed: $150.00
I am very proud to announce I won the 2010 Cumberland County Cultural Heritage Plein Air Painting Contest. The awards ceremony will be at Gallery 50 in Bridgeton from 6-8 this Friday. The paintings I did for the competition have not yet been posted to this blog as they were dropped off immediately after painted. I will get them back in late September for your viewing pleasure.
Also, my painting “Product Placement” won Best in Show at The Hammonton Art Center‘s yearly Works on Paper exhibit. The reception for the exhibit will be tomorrow evening, 5-8 pm at the HAC.
I am very grateful for and proud of these honors.
July 31, 2010 at 2:37 pm (ink on paper, Sketchbook Saturday!)
Tags: albie, art, artist, bamboo, black, brody, collect, collection, designer, draw, drawing, figure, hatch, ink, kathie oliva, kid, line, peskimo, robot, saturday, sketchbook, Sketches, square, still, toy, vinyl
Lets celebrate this Sketchbook Saturday with a couple ink drawings of vinyl toys.
Kathie Olivas’s Brody from her The Scavengers series:
Peskimo’s Albie from Bamboo Zoo:
July 22, 2010 at 6:45 pm (ink on paper, watercolor on paper)
Tags: art, artist, ashmen, banyan, blue, color, courtyard, hawaii, honolulu, hot, hotel, ink, jen, lamp, line, marriot, oahu, palm, pool, purple, room, travel, tree, trip, waikiki, water, weight
We stayed at the Courtyard Marriot in Waikiki. Here is a watercolor painting of the pool in the beautiful courtyard of their namesake.
The view from our room:
My favorite part of the hotel room was this lamp. I drew it with great affection:
The most interesting thing to draw in all of Hawaii were the banyan trees. The drawing below is of a tree by the playground in the zoo. Tomorrow, I will present my animal drawings from a day at the Honolulu Zoo.
Jennifer Tracy 