Plein aire cartooning!

To quote Maryanne, Because -- why not?
Sketched from my backyard in NM a few springs ago.
Pastel on Canson toned paper

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Third Annual Invitational New Mexico Painters Exhibition 2016

Please visit Kennedy Alumni Hall on the NMHU campus to see the 3rd Annual Invitational. I'm thrilled to announce I have three ink brush paintings of the Southwest accepted in to the exhibit this year.

Painting on poster design by Joel Green

The Western Exhibit 

at LVAC's Gallery 140 

Amber Lon MacLean 

Title: Cattle Call (East Bay meets Western)

Chinese ink, Conte' charcoal on mulberry "rice" paper

On exhibit August 5 through September 2016

Las Vegas Arts Council, Gallery 140

140 Bridge Street, Las Vegas, New Mexico

With special guest curator, artist Gary Morton–one of the founders of the Working Ranch Cowboys Association, Chairman of the New Mexico Arts Commission, Director of the Department of Cultural Affairs and Equestrian Facility Design Task Force.

New Mexico Annual Painters Exhibition Annual Invitational 2015

   I'm very pleased to announce I had three paintings selected for the annual invitational, the New Mexico Painters Exhibition; Through October 23rd, 2015; Kennedy Alumni Gallery on the campus of New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The above piece, 'Shiprock' is the first of my new series of Chinese ink painting landscapes of New Mexico. 

Welcome

Welcome

    

Above: 'The Castle at Montezuma' (c)Amber L. MacLean 2010

Las Vegas Arts Council at The Plaza Hotel - Amber Lon MacLean: Drawings, Paintings, & Tinwork

Correction: through July 28, 2015

FROM THE MIDDLE OF SOMEWHERE Spring Art exhibit at El Fidel Restaurant, Las Vegas, New Mexico

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I'm really excited about this show. I'm sharing the walls with printmaker and NMHU art faculty professor, Todd Christensen. I'm debuting a large scale floral tinwork, as well as a large scale painting of the newly purchased Castaneda Harvey House Hotel. Todd is exhibiting several pieces from his new series.  Please stop in! The food and people are wonderful. Some of the best in town.
El Fidel Restaurant, located inside the El Fidel Hotel: 510 Douglas Avenue, Las Vegas, New Mexico 87701
Now through June 6, 2015