While just five paintings were added to my "2 by 2" series in 2022, three of them were the unexpected byproducts of travels, two from visit to the Rio Grande in Texas and one form an artist residency in Virginia. 

My "2 by 2" series continued through 2021 when in Maryland going maskless became almost the rule in Baltimore.  The veterans and the CASA paintings were created while in residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

To see the complete "2 by 2" series go to:http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/stand-ups/

My "2 by 2" watercolor series of couples began in 2017 and has spanned the COVID pandemic. This portfolio begins with paintings at the start of 2021 when folks wore masks in public in Baltimore. By April with vaccinations well underway, people began appeared in public without masks. This portfolio follows that transition.

 To see the complete "2 by 2" series go to:http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/stand-ups/
And for COVID mask wearing go to: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/pandemic-pairs/

The complete "Pandemic Pairs" series can be found on my website at:  http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/pandemic-pairs/

And for COVID mask wearing go to: http://www.scottponemone.com/portfolio/pandemic-pairs/

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/

The series "Pandemic Pairs" can be found on 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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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/