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Marni Maree Art

Marni Maree's Art

watercolor and oil artist, teacher

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Student Art

The art in these galleries was created the many students in my classes!

Clouds

Look at the beautiful cloudy skies that were painted!

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ROCKS

We painted rocks using a razor blade, plastic wrap, salt and traditional watercolor painting techniques too.

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Trees Trees Trees

Look at all of these wonderful trees filled with textures, colors and bird holes!

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Spring Flowers 2

We painted flowerish shapes then inked them in a beautiful way!

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Watercolor on Canvas

Watercolor on canvas is very different than painting on paper and it is very fun!

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Furry Critters

A Watercolor by Heart Creative Challenge

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Shiny Objects

a Watercolor by Heart Creative Challenge

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Pointillism

Watercolor by Heart Creative Challenge

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SNOWY TREES

Many watercolor techniques were used to make these magical and colorful trees!

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Shelf Portraits

Not all portraits are exact likenesses. In this class, the challenge was: Create a ‘portrait’ using some of the things in your home that describe YOU. To prepare for this class, look around you for things to draw and/or paint on your ‘shelf’. They can be arranged as a still life or lined up or …

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Reflections of Venice

We can't travel there now but we can go there in our minds and on paper!

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Watercolor Basics

A series of 4 classes focusing on the Foundations of painting with watercolor. Here are just a few samples from these ongoing classes.
1 - Brush Control
2 - Color Wheel
3 - The Value of Color
4 - Color Intensity

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Vacation Memories

In this class we used some of our past vacation photos to paint a fun memory.  Remember when we could travel? We focused on foreground, middle ground and back ground as well as adding people to the scene. Some worked from one photo and some combined multiple images to recreate our memory.

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Genesis Creation Story Art

This was an introductory fellowship class for a Bible Study on the book of Genesis lead by Jennifer K. This art was created in 7 steps. Beautiful creations! More art to come!

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Parts of a Whole

In this challenge we took apart the subject piece by piece as we drew it! We rearranged the parts into a whole new design! Some are orderly and lined up. Some are exploded or randomly arranged. Our personalities show in the compositions!

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Cinque Terre on Zoom

We can’t go in person, but we can pretend we are there. I taught a class with IlChiostro and we pretended that we were able to see all 5 towns in just a few hours using my photos from my last Workshop. Here are the wonderful results! More to come soon…

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Details Details

In this class, we focused on the DETAILS!  We found the little things in our subject that interested us and spent some time drawing and painting them in great detail.  It was very fun!

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More Wonky Hands

I taught the Vienna Arts Society Artists a Fearless Drawing Class!Everyone drew with their Non-Dominant hand and came up with these wonky and wonderful pieces!

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Found Poems

In this class everyone found the words to their poem already written on a page full of words. They blacked out the words NOT in the poem. Then they decorated and embellished their page. It was a very fun thing to do! It’s called Black Out Poetry ‘invented’ by Austin Kleon. Thanks for the idea, …

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Zoom In

In this class, the artists use their photos to zoom in closer and closer in different areas as they discovered various compositions, shapes and textures in a whole new way. Look at the results!

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Painting With Scissors

In this Creativity Challenge, each artist painted various papers with colors and textures. Using this new paper and many other found papers, the paintings were cut and redesigned into a whole new painting!

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Fearless Drawing

Look what happened when the artists drew their hand with their non-dominant hand!

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Spring Flowers

Using watercolors and ink everyone painted beautiful imaginary flowers. It was all about the amount of water on the brush, the choice of colors and the twisted brush stroke.

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Peace Church Pentecost Art

I taught an Pentecost themed art lesson after Church via Zoom. See how everyone did!

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marni@marnimaree.com
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Workhouse Arts Center
9518 Workhouse Way
Lorton, VA 22079

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Sep 25

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Join me on Saturday, October 10th, from 6 to 9 p.m. for my opening reception of Reimagined, One Piece at a Time. 

This is a collection featuring my exploration into collage. You'll discover rich textures, unexpected colors, and lots of fun, creative choices. Experience new art and old; reimagined. 

If you can't make it on opening night, the show will be on display during Workhouse hours from October 7 until November 11, at Gallery Five.

@galleryfivestudios 
@workhousearts
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Sep 17

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“Personal Space” describes what it sometimes feels like in a crowded space with no escape. 

Being an introvert (yes, I am!) it can be exhausting at times. Yet, if I am teaching anywhere, I am fine!  The more people,  the better! 

Then I need my personal space back to re-energize.
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Sep 12

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Cobbler House was painted during my Artist Residency in Dinan, France. I painted as many of the half timber homes as I could during my time there. Cobbler House now lives in the home of a friend, Danny Gregory!  What a great place to be. Thanks Danny!
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Sep 5

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A sweet treat for my sketchbook collection.
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Sep 3

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I do love my life. What a glorious view. Thank you, God!
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Aug 28

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This was painted in many layers using watercolor. Some layers were “wet in wet” and others more controlled. 

“Fish Tales”
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Aug 25

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“Icelandic Bouquet”. I love the way flowers can become something completely different when you stop trying to paint them perfectly. This piece is all about color, pattern, and letting the individual shapes and textures play together.

Leaves, berries, petals, seed pods, each little detail became part of a bigger, almost fantastical bouquet.

And, as always, I had the most fun getting lost in the details.
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Aug 22

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This started as a watercolor painting of a beautiful path to the beach. The path was beautiful but my painting was not. To fix this, I collaged over it. I found some perfect papers in my stack of Gelli prints. Next thing I know, THIS happened! 

This was part of a Summer Challenge with my Studio Time students past and present. There were so many creative paintings at the reveal party and everyone had a blast. We will be doing this again!
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