by hankinslawrenceimages | Oct 3, 2019 | News
Bill and I each have several photos in the Montgomery County Camera Club Exhibit, “Emergence of Artistry” at ArtSeen Gallery in Rockville this month.
A portion of the proceeds from sales from the show will be donated to Arts on the Block which empowers creative youth to imagine and shape fulfilling futures, join the creative workforce, and contribute to their communities. They provide real-world training in a working mosaic studio and on public art projects throughout the DC metro region.
The Opening Reception for the show will be on Sunday October 6 from 2 – 6 PM at 12115-G Parklawn Drive in Rockville, Maryland. We’d love to see you there
by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 15, 2019 | News
I just wanted to take a moment to share some of the wonderful things that have happened in early March.
The first big event was the opening reception for my show, The Beauty of Flowers, in the Horticulture Center at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia. Thank you everyone who came to the opening. It was wonderful to see you and have a chance to share my photography with you.
Here are a few photos from the opening reception. Thank you to Jeanine Cummings and Bill Lawrence for taking some photos at the reception.
A few days after the reception, Bill and I headed to Rochester, New York to take a Digital Negative Making workshop at the George Eastman Museum. We had an extra day in Rochester to do some exploring – so of course, I photographed the local cemetery, Mount Hope Cemetery. Here’s one of the graveyard angels I saw that morning.
Graveyard Angel, Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester NY © 2019 Patty Hankins
That afternoon, we had a chance to meet Jen Perena at Flower City Arts Center in Rochester. I connected with Jen on Instagram after I saw the kallitypes she created as part of her artist residency at the Flower City Arts Center. I’ve been printing my cemetery photographs as kallitypes so I was eager to meet up with someone else using the same late 19th-century photographic printing process. Unlike most kallitypes that are monochromatic images, Jen applies watercolor paints to her kallitypes to create color images. You can learn more about Jen’s work on her website at https://kallitypegirl.com/
Here’s a photo I took of Jen with her unique color kallitypes.
Finally on Wednesday, the workshop began! I’ll admit to be a little nervous about taking the workshop – after all, I’m fine with photoshop so I wasn’t worried about creating the negatives – but it’s been over 25 years since I spent much time in a darkroom – and here I was going to probably the best place in the country to learn historic printing processes!
It turns out, I had nothing to worry about. Our two instructors, Nick Brandreth and Mark Osterman, were fabulous. The first two days of the workshop were the technical part. We learned how to calibrate our process so we could produce dense enough negatives for printing and how to print the negatives using the Salt Printing process first developed by Henry Fox Talbot in the 1830’s.
These are photos of one of my calibration tools in the first wash and of my final digital negatives.
On Friday, we spent the day printing! Not only did we print our photos, we toned them with gold, and then waxed them with beeswax and lavender oil to ensure their longevity.
Here’s my salt print of Kitty Dusty as Frida Kahlo and a quick photo of my two prints with my official George Eastman Museum Workshop darkroom apron!
I had a fabulous time at the workshop. Not only did I learn how to create better digital negatives and how to make salt prints – I got to spend 3 days at the George Eastman Museum! During slow times in the class, the instructors would pull out photographs printed with all sorts of historic processes, or various camera models, including hand-made cameras made from cardboard! We never knew who was going to stop by the workshop to say hello and chat, one of the people who dropped in had been instrumental in developing the emulsion for my favorite Black & White film. And then there was all the wonderful Kodak and photographic history on display. If the door on one of the rooms between our classroom and the ladies room was open – I could see some original Kodak Girl advertising posters from the early 1900’s!
Between the opening reception, meeting Jen and seeing her work, and the workshop – it was an incredible week. And now that I’m home, the weather is finally warming up and I can start photographing flowers outdoors again.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Mar 1, 2019 | News
I’m so excited! Bill and I hung my show The Beauty of Flowers at the beginning of the week. It looks amazing! I can’t wait for you to see it.
Please join me at the opening reception on Saturday March 2 from 1 – 3 PM in the Horticulture Center at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia.
If you are able to join me on Saturday here are some directions to the Horticulture Center. Please do not put the address – 4603 Green Spring Road – in your GPS. If you do, it is likely to take you to the Green Spring Road off of Little River Turnpike that does not connect to the parking area for the gardens. If you need to put an address in your GPS, use Witch Hazel Road in Alexandria to get to the garden entrance.
From the intersection of Little River Turnpike and Braddock Road in Alexandria, go north on Braddock Road. Turn right on Witch Hazel Road at the entrance sign to the gardens. At the end of Witch Hazel Road, turn right on Green Spring Road (it’s the parking lot). The Horticulture Center is located at the far end of Green Spring Road/the parking area.
If you aren’t able to join me on the March 2, my show will be on display until the end of April. If you’re going to be in the area, I’d love to meet you at Green Spring Gardens to share my show with you. Just drop me a note and we’ll see if we can find a time to meet.
I will be teaching a flower photography workshop at Green Spring Gardens on Saturday April 13. We’ll photograph in the gardens and then end the workshop with a tour of my show in the Horticulture Center. You can learn more about the workshop at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/morning-at-green-spring-april-2019/
I realize not all of you live close enough to see my show in person. So I have created a page on my website with all the photos from the show at https://beautifulflowerpictures.com/store/the-beauty-of-flowers-spring-2019/
Green Spring Gardens will be receiving a 20% commision on photos in the show sold at the Gardens and from my website between now and the end of April. So if you’ve been thinking of purchasing one of my photos, know that you’ll be supporting a wonderful garden if you order soon.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Feb 15, 2019 | News
It’s almost here! My spring 2019 solo show “The Beauty of Flowers” will be on display from Tuesday February 26 through Sunday April 28 at the Horticulture Center at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia
I’m hard at work finishing up the photographs for the show. I will have close to 50 of my flower photographs on display along the ramp and in the Atrium.
The NOVA Plein Air Artists group will be showing paintings in “Beyond the Garden Gates” in the Meeting Room of the Horticulture Center.
I’d love for you to join me at a joint Opening Reception for the two shows on Saturday March 2 from 1 – 3 PM.
The Horticulture Center is located at 4603 Green Spring Road in Alexandria. When you visit Green Spring, please don’t put that address in your GPS! If you do – chances are you will end up at a closed off entrance to the garden. The entrance to the Green Spring Gardens is on Witch Hazel Road off of Braddock Road in Alexandria.
I hope to see you on March 2!
by hankinslawrenceimages | Jan 11, 2019 | News
Just a quick post to let you know about a couple of places I’ll be showing my photography in the next few months.
Graveyard Angel, Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah Georgia
My Palladium-toned Kallitype of my Graveyard Angel at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia will be exhibited in Night: The 28th Annual Strathmore Juried Exhibition at Strathmore Mansion, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, MD. The show will be on display from January 12 – February 17, 2019.
The opening reception for Night will be on Thursday January 17, 2019 at 7 PM at the Strathmore Mansion. The reception is open to the public and gives you the opportunity to not only see the work in the show, but also to meet many of the artists.
I hope to see you at Strathmore Mansion on the 17th.
And then starting in late February, I’ll have a solo show – The Beauty of Flowers – at the Horticulture Center at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia. The show will be on display from February 26 – April 28, 2019. The opening reception is open to the public and will be on Saturday afternoon March 2.
As more information about my Beauty of Flowers show becomes available, I’ll let you know.
by hankinslawrenceimages | Jan 7, 2019 | News
Last week, I had a chance to see the Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist Exhibit at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Quite simply, it was one of most inspiring art exhibitions I’ve seen in recent years. I fell in love with her work and am inspired to try to create some photographs in the style of some of her paintings, the way I created my Inspired by Frida series in 2018.
Before seeing the exhibit, I knew very little about Morisot. I knew she had exhibited with the Impressionists in Paris, and that she was married to Edourd Manet’s brother. Somehow I had the impression she hadn’t done much work, and that her work was similar to Mary Cassatt’s work. We’ll just say – I was so wrong!
I thought I’d share some of my photos of paintings in the exhibit with you. I apologize in advance for the quality of the photos – I was using my phone to take the photos – and as you can see – I cannot hold it level (now you know one on the reasons I use a tripod!)
This painting of Morisot’s sister was one of the few I’d seen before visiting the exhibit. I think this is why I though her work reminded me of Mary Cassatt.
The Cradle, Berthe Morisot, 1872
Hide & Seek. Berthe Morisot, 1873
I loved seeing all the shades of green Morisot used in this painting and in many others.
Reading (The Green Umbrella). Berthe Morisot. 1873
Woman and Children on the Lawn (The Lilacs at Mourecourt ). Berthe Morisot. 1874
In England. Berthe Morisot. 1875
Woman at Her Toilette. Berthe Morisot. 1875 – 1880
At the Ball. Berthe Morisot. 1876
Young Woman Dressed for the Ball. Berthe Morisot. 1879.
Like many of the American Impressionists would later do, Morisot painted some of her subjects in gardens.
The Fence at Bougival. Berthe Morisot. 1884.
The self-portrait was in the “Women at Work” section of the exhibit. Morisot was a professional working artist. Her husband gave up his artistic career to support hers!
Self Portrait. Berthe Morisot. 1885.
Child in a Red Apron. Berthe Morisot, 1886.
Cottage Interior. Berthe Morisot, 1886
Model at Rest. Berthe Morisot. 1887
I kept going back to this painting in the exhibit. There was just something about the flowers, the portrait and raw canvas at the edges I found fascinating.
Young Girl With A Vase. Berthe Morisot. 1889
As I looked at this painting, I could hear the music the girl was playing in my mind – and felt like I could see the music coming from the mandolin in the blue brush strokes to the right of the instrument.
Girl Playing the Mandolin. Berthe Morisot. 1890
Lucy Leon at the Piano, Berthe Morisot. 1892
Young Girl in a Green Coat, Berthe Morisot. 1894
“I am approaching the end of my life, and yet I am still a mere beginner. ” Berthe Morisot. 1890
The Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist exhibit will be on display at the Barnes Foundation through January 14, 2019. If you can get to Philladelphia to see it before it closes, I really recommend taking the time to see this magnificent exhibit and learn more about Berthe Morisot.
