Come Out to Mechanicsburg this Saturday!

This Saturday, May 19th, Mechanicsburg, PA is hosting its 11th Annual Art Walk and Wine Tasting from 1 - 5 pm. Mary Beth's gallery, Brath and Hughes Fine Art, is one of the locations where you can purchase your wine glass for the tasting, and I know Mary Beth will be out "on the streets" with other members of SVPAP, plein air painting. Since much of my work focuses on the Civil War era,  I will be hosted for this event by Civil War and More, located at 10 S. Market St. Don't know that I'll be able to leave that location and see everyone else, but I hope some of you will be able to stop by and visit me while I'm there!

http://www.mechanicsburgborough.org/PDF%20documents/Events/MAY2012ARTWALK.pdf

Final Version, Frederick Douglass, by Amy Lindenberger

I'm embarassed to admit that I promised to share this with the group, nearly a month ago. (How DOES the time slip away so quickly??) Another in my series dealing with the abolitionists, this piece is 24" x 24" on Gessobord, laid in with watercolor pencil as a ground, and completed with Prismacolor ArtStix. I wanted a lot of passion and energy with this one, to better convey the intensity of Frederick Douglass for his unfinished cause at this point in his life (approx. 1859), so working with the ArtStix seemed much more appropriate than with the thinner, more precise pencils. I'm pleased to have completed this in time for the opening of my Gettysburg gallery, Civil War Fine Art, at the start of my seventh season. I plan to hang the portrait near a window: I figure that he'll either bring visitors in, or scare them off -- that remains to be seen, I guess!