NEW: MODEL SESSION WITH KENYATTA!
MAY 5, 6:30-8:30PM
$5 model fee
REGISTER & Pay go to our JOIN page!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Online Portrait Demonstration with Dawn Whitlaw

Date: Sunday, April 25
Time: 1-4pm
Members: $10
Non- members: $20

Video recording will be available for attendees to watch again later!
 
Dawn Whitelaw is currently on the the board of the Portrait Society of  America where she serves as vice-chair. She has also been featured as faculty for Plein Air South and the Plein Air Convention and Expo. In 2016, the American Impressionist Society elected her to Master status.

Find out more about Dawn Whitelaw:
https://www.dawnwhitelaw.com
https://www.facebook.com/dawn.whitelaw.3
https://www.instagram.com/dawn.whitelaw

Member Spotlight: Bill Mapes

Bill Mapes graduated from the Philadelphia College of Art (now the College of the Arts) in 1971 with a BFA in Illustration. He spent 35 years in the commercial art field in the Washington, DC region, 30 of those years as a freelance illustrator/designer. During that period, he taught a University of Maryland University College Adult Education course in Graphic Fundamentals for several years.   

Bill has returned to his love of oil painting and fine art.  Having a deep passion for history, particularly the mid-1860’s Civil War era, provides him with a unique perspective on historical painting and portraiture.

An accredited member of the Maryland Society of Portrait Painters, Gaithersburg Fine Art Association and past two-term President and lifetime member of the Art League of Germantown. Since 2011 Bill has administered an open art session, “the Hood Portrait Group”, at the Tatum Art Center, Hood College, Frederick, MD. 
 
Bill’s portrait of “Clara Barton” is part of the permanent collection at the Clara Barton Historical Site, Glen Echo, Maryland.  The portrait is on display in the Clara Barton Historical Site gift shop. Bill completed a portrait commission of City Councilman Julius J. Persensky for the City of Gaithersburg which now hangs in the Wells-Robertson House, Gaithersburg, MD.

Self portrait, siverpoint

Francine

Irene

Artist Statement
Everyone is unique.  Beyond representing a person’s likeness on canvas, my ultimate objective is to find and portray their driving force.  I want to convey the innermost essence, the individuality, and the spirit of every subject I paint.  The end goal is that every viewer of my work sees the person beyond the image on the canvas.