Alexandria Festival of the Arts

Once again, the Alexandria Festival of the Arts was a rousing success....large and enthusiastic crowds, perfect weather Saturday and drizzly day-turned beautiful by afternoon Sunday. Some booth and crowd shots.

Alexandria Festival of the Arts

Booth locations have been announced for the 8th Annual Festival, one of the largest and best ranked art shows in the nation--we are in the 100 block of King Street, close to Lee Street and opposite the Wharf Restaurant. Watercolor paintings are featured. Abstracted cave paintings using techniques capturing a dynamic energy specific to the art of the respective caves. The symbols and drawings known from a certain cave are arranged in a dynamic featuring not how it appears, but how it is noticed. Other watercolors are also abstracted using a very strucutred technique producing a strongly contrasting color array. Others are just fun interpretations. Among the large watercolor paintings are small 8x10 canvas paintings highlighting typical cave art animal sketches. There will also be a variety of canvas paintings in the "sale bin".

Return to Baltimore's ARTSCAPE extravaganza!!!

I returned to ARTSCAPE in late July after several years.

Many of the 350,000attendance (yes 350K) came by the booth, despite the hot weekend. My booth was in the center of the Maryland Institute College of the Arts complex. This booth featured only acrylics, no watercolors.This is one of the longest shows around (28 hours) as well as maybe the largest in the country, lasting from noon until late in the evening two of the three nights.

Please take a "walk" around my booth.

Cave Art Alive 56x44" $2500

Cave Art Fancy 48x48" $2400

Fun was had by all with a “New Orleans-like parade

Show Season Continues

I very much enjoyed my return in May to Stockley Gardens in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, where I featured non-cave art.

In early June at the Frederick Art Festival, I returned to showing my cave art. The photo was taken by photographer Taverlee Laskauskas (Naha Fine Photography).

National Harbor International Art Festival 1-2 May

At National Harbor, I'm featuring cave paintings a la rouge. Red ochres were used in cave paintings and Martha has featured the color as if there had been plentiful suppliers to paint in red. I'll be in Booth 35. This shows is a few miles distant from my studio in Old Town Alexandria, just across the Potomac. Who knows...may even take a ferry to the show?

How different from the actual cave settings!

Red Rouge 30x36

Pech Merle a la Rouge 24x48

Font de Gaume Rouge

34x40

Aspen Art Festival 19-20 July

Photographs from 6th Annual Aspen Festival of the Arts--Martha's booth and miscellaneous photos of Aspen Show.

Summer Show Schedule

Summer Shows 2008:

    Downtown Kansas City Art Show - 28-29 June

    Boulder Festival of the Arts at 29th Street - 5-6 July

    6th Annual Downtown Aspen Art Festival - 19-20 July

    Winter Park Alpine ArtAffair - 28-29 July

    21st Annual Beaver Creek Art Festival - 2-3 August

Aspen Show photos to be posted Sunday 20 July

If you would like to see new paintings as soon as they are ready, email me at mddbrumbaugh@mac.com.

Hi Everybody.  Here's the grand entry.  I thought you might be interested to know what your artist friend is doing, with her art.

HERE AND AROUND WITH MARTHA

Martha D. D. Brumbaugh's SKETCHES AND PAINTINGS

This is my new presentation of paintings, plein aire and from my new studio in Old Town Alexandria.

I'll be posting frequent entries of my studio and plein aire paintings, experiments and my more known cave paintings.  These little paintings will be a presentation of new techniques, ways of expression, impressions, remembered scenes and a new approach to my familiar subject matter.