• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Marni Maree Art

Marni Maree's Art

watercolor and oil artist, teacher

  • Art Classes
  • Art Work
    • Watercolors
    • Cicadas
      • Cicada Painting Videos
    • Oils
    • Sketches
    • Abstracts
    • Camels
  • Student Art
  • Exhibits & Bio
    • Drawn to Travel Exhibit
    • About
    • Resume
  • Reproductions

Cicadas

Find beauty inside and out at Green Spring Gardens
as the Horticulture Center opens for the first art show since the pandemic.
Beautiful Bugs!
June 30 – August 15
Green Spring Gardens Horticultural Center
4603 Green Spring Road, Alexandria, VA 22312
A collection of watercolor and mixed media paintings by Marni Maree.  
Exclusive to this exhibit, watch the artist create virtually! Using your mobile device, scan the QR code associated with an art piece and be taken to a video of Marni as she creates that piece!
Art displayed is for sale and a portion of proceeds goes to Green Spring for use in the Historic House. This free art show runs through August 15 in the Horticultural Center.
The center is open to the public Monday through Saturday from 9 am to 4:30 pm and on Sundays from noon to 4:30 pm. The exhibit space occasionally closes for program use. You can check if the exhibit will be open during your visit by calling 703-642-5172.
Cica da Mayo
Cicada Across the Potomac
Cicada at the Beach
Cicada Bubbles
Cicada Celebration
Cicada Costume Change
Cicada Cuddles
Cicada in Circles
Cicada in Hiding
Cicada in the Garden
Cicada Smiles
Cicada Splatters
Cicada to the Music
Cicada Wing
CicaDAD
Colorful Cicada
Complementary Cicada
Dancing Cicada aka June Bug
Dancing Cicada
Emerging Cicada
Ground Breaking Cicadas
Here Come the Cicadas
IMG_5453 (2)
My Red Eyed Girl

Marni Maree Art

marni@marnimaree.com
571-499-8272

Studio 509

Workhouse Arts Center
9518 Workhouse Way
Lorton, VA 22079

Signup to Stay in Touch

And receive a list of my favorite watercolor supplies!

@marnimareepaints

View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Oct 3

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18139752136441305
My students and I are traveling with @ilchiostroworkshops  in the Dolomites, staying at the beautiful Stadt Hotel Città in Bolzano. For the next few days, the Dolomites are our home studio.

We’re spending our time sketching together, sometimes diving into a creative lesson, other times finishing pages in our sketchbooks. This group of artists has traveled with me before through Il Chiostro. They are seasoned travelers and dedicated drawers, yet there’s always something new to learn from each other.

Artists are never bored when drawing. Everything feels fresh, even familiar sights, once you put pencil to paper. Today was a perfect day for capturing the many layers of mountains using one of my favorite approaches: modified blind contour drawing.

  #ilchiostro 

Mary Archambault  #MaryArchambault
@cobentley124 
@teresatindlebrunson  #Teresabrunson
@pathafkemeyer  #Patriciahafkemeyer
@sherryhawkins4698  #sherryhawkins
@terryholmanartist 
@dlandi006  #Deebarneslandi
#LynnMartin
@ohohsandyo  #sandyolszowy
@lynnsords  #lynnmccaffreysords
#ronmaree 
#JohnSingley
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 30

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18108245119580845
Title: Coronabstraction, 6x6 watercolor and ink
I painted at the start of the pandemic; red germs swirling, fear turned into joy on the page.
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 26

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18078285347047079
Adventures drawing around the world!
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 24

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18089582542827999
Another from my Cicada series! This is called Complementary Cicada.
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 22

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 17893730013323302
To the Beach, 6x6, watercolor and ink

After painting this warm abstract I saw bubbles, beach blankets, umbrellas,  boardwalks, and fish!
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 18

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18072318401126323
My mom, Clare McCarthy, taught me how to work with alcohol inks. We had so much fun playing with this medium and watching these colors become flowers. Somehow, Mom and I can turn anything into flowers!
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 16

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18094542784688447
Ron and I are so fortunate for the many opportunities we’ve had to travel together. Sometimes I’m teaching, sometimes I’m not—but we always make it an adventure. To keep these moments alive long after the trip is over, Ron creates memory books, and I fill my sketchbook.
View Instagram post by marnimareepaints

Sep 12

Open post by marnimareepaints with ID 18077527271070780
Cicada Across the Potomac, Cicada Cuddles, Dancing Cicada

They became my unexpected muses, with their segmented bodies, bold eyes, and delicate, lacy wings. The more I painted them, the more beauty I discovered in these fascinating little creatures.
Follow on Instagram

Copyright © 2025 · Marni Maree Art · All Rights Reserved · Privacy Policy