Work samples

  • Mariachi In the Air
    Mariachi In the Air
  • Crystalline Mildred.jpg
    Crystalline Mildred.jpg

    The restored "Mildred Belle", a Chesapeake fishing vessel, tied up in Locust Point.

  • crystalline william.jpg
    crystalline william.jpg
    A crisp spring morning along a William Street sidewalk.
  • ginovsky_alley_watercolor_2018.jpg
    ginovsky_alley_watercolor_2018.jpg
    Downtown as viewed through a South Baltimore alley

About John

Baltimore City
I'm the kind of guy who has been creative all his life. At school, I doodled in the margins instead of taking notes. In college, I met pretty girls by offering to draw their portraits. Throughout my working career as a journalist and trade writer, I've painted word pictures to make points clear. I have taken courses at the Maryland Institute College of Art and elsewhere to appreciate the purely visual medium. All of which is to say that painting is fun for me. I hope that comes through in my… more
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Watercolor perceptions

Watercolor portraits of Federal Hill houses, Baltimore Harbor, and various other studies.
  • John and Alma
    John and Alma
    Our house.
  • Baltimore Harbor
    Baltimore Harbor
    View from Federal Hill.
  • Golden Porch
    Golden Porch
    Bed and breakfast hotel in Whitehaven, early morning sun
  • Durst Street
    Durst Street
    South Baltimore alley street and wires
  • Sun washed
    Sun washed
    Brilliant noon light baking row house door
  • Churchill Street
    Churchill Street
    Early morning sun against an alley garden
  • crystalline glen2.jpg
    crystalline glen2.jpg
    Fawn stepping through a crystalline wood