Category: painting

• Plein Air Activity

  

  2024 My Dying Crabapple The Front Yard Pope Hay Barn My Side Yard Max Patch Garden Spring 2023 Plein Air Painting Event in Hillsborough on May 6th in conjunction with the Hillsborough Garden Tour. Marcia will be at 122 S Bellvue Street A Border Wall Stretched Watercolor Paper 14″ Square $225.00 Front of House Stretched…

  marcia mcdade

  October 1, 2024

  landscape, oil painting, painting

  Plein air

• Making a Seamless Tile

  

  This group of pictures represents two originals of the subject I used as an inspiration for this design. The third picture is a digital image where I did the flowing white line drawing that is the basis for the seamless tile. The third drawing was done in layers the background layer is the original pastel…

  marcia mcdade

  September 29, 2023

  abstract, decor, digital, fiber, Hand work, home, landscape, painting, pastel, printing, Sewing

  abstraction, colorful, Crafts, decor, design, drapes, expressive, Fabric, handwork, quilting, Sewing

• New Embellished Monotypes 2022

  

  Piedmont Craftsmen Gallery Opening November 4th Marcia McDade McMann Featured Artist  Most recently I have been using a simple printing technique to produce varied impressions on a theme.  Vistas, streams and rockscapes on my favorite hiking routes are my subjects matter. I choose an image from a sketch or watercolor study that was made on…

  marcia mcdade

  October 15, 2022

  abstract, drawing, embellishment, landscape, mono printing, monoprint, monotype, mountain, painting, pastel

  colorful, Crafts, expressive, landscape, mixed media, painting, printing, watercolor

• Marcia McDade McMann at the Orange County Library

  

  Paintings and Drawings on display 132 W Margaret Lane Hillsborough NC August -October The Exhibition includes my most recent watercolors and a sampling of oil pastels from the past. There are two example of soft pastel and monotype which represent what I am currently working on. Over the years I have worked with the silkscreen,…

  marcia mcdade

  September 1, 2022

  Acrylic, animals, drawing, fiber, Hand work, landscape, mountain, oil pastel, painting, pastel, printing, rags, watercolor

  abstract, colorful, embellished, expressive, handwork, imaginative, impressionistic, painterly, print, vibrant

• Winter Watercolor Studies

  

  Pursuing a new direction is always tough.  Stepping out of the comfort zone and finding the time to work on new ideas is also a challenge.  I managed to do some works this winter that I had been thinking about for while.  I am not sure where it will take me.   Sometimes frustration sets in and…

  marcia mcdade

  April 17, 2019

  animals, figurative, painting, watercolor

• Summer Watercolors 2017

  

  At Sugar Mountain Studio Retreat Best of the summer

  marcia mcdade

  September 11, 2017

  abstract, flowers, landscape, mountain, painting, watercolor

  abstract, colorful, deepwoods, floral, garden, mountain, painterly, summer, watercolor