Once I became comfortable wearing a mask in April 2020, I began a variation on the "2 by 2" series that I call "Pandemic Pairs."  I wanted to reflect how the world abruptly changed after folks took the crisis seriously in Baltimore.  I still asked people to stare at my iPhone and not to smile because a smile shows up in the eyes, not just the mouth.

This sereies can be found at my website at: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/pandemic-pairs/

These "2 by 2" paintings were completed between October 2019 and April 2020. A complete portfolio of the series can be found at: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/stand-ups/
 

More from my series of watercolor double portraits: from April 2019 to September 2019. Omitted are four paintings done in Tetuoan,  Morocco, during an artist residency at Green Olive Arts. The complete series paintings can be found at: http://www.scottponemone.com/sidewalk-studio-deja-vu/

"2 by 2" watercolors painted between June 2018 and February 2019. The complete series paintings can be found at:  http://www.scottponemone.com/sidewalk-studio-deja-vu/
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In the summer of 2017 I decided to see what would happen if I returned to photographing people in public spaces like as I was doing over 30 years ago.  This meant not doing such programmatic paintings like the UP IN ARMS series that I worked on for four years starting in 2013. There I asked folks to hold up above their heads an object closely associated with themselves so that I could paint only their arms and the object.  In returning to the whole figure, the resulting watercolors become portrature in a way that projects personal confidence and intiates a one-on-one conversation/confrontation with the viewer.  A recent blog post of mine talks about how a group of paintings from 1983 is similar but much different from these new people-in-public-places paintings. Here's the link: http://www.scottponemone.com/sidewalk-studio-deja-vu/

The use of guns is so epidemic in this county that this series is dedicated to the victims of gunfire. But it also raises questions as to who are the shooters and who are the victims and what are the relationships between the two.  After I finished the painting, I went to an indoor shooting range and had each painting shot up.

These paintings from the winter of 2017 were the culmination of my "Up In Arms" series of watercolors that bergan in 2013. They can be viewed on my website at: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/up-in-arms-2/

This a grouping of paintings from my "Up In Arms" series that ran from 2013 to 2017.  They can be viewed on my website at: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/up-in-arms-2/

These paintings were part of my "Up In Arms" series of watercolor. They can be viewed on my website at: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/up-in-arms-2/