I want my work to catch your attention.  My goal is to get a good likeness that reflects the subject’s personality.  My current work is primarily in oils, but I also use pastels and watercolors.  My style reflects my study of the “Old Masters” and various instructors with whom I have studied.

I set my art aside to earn a living as many of us do.  I picked it up again as my children began leaving the nest.  At first my medium was metal work.  I worked as an artistic blacksmith and blade smith for a number of years.  A few years before I retired I picked up my painting again.

I paint still life and landscape, but my favorite subject is the human face.  In order to get the practice needed to improve my work, I helped organize the Portrait Study Group that meets every first and third Wednesdays.  Members of the community have very graciously posed for us giving several very serious artists the opportunity to practice with a live model regularly.  I have added a painting study group on the second and fourth Wednesdays at which we practice still life and, when weather permits, landscape painting.

I am a member of the Allegany Arts Council, the Allegany Area Art Alliance and the Western Maryland Water Color Society, all in the Cumberland Maryland Area.  I am also a member of the National Portrait Society.  My work has been displayed at the Saville Gallery of the Allegany Arts Council, 60 North Centre Street Gallery, Rocky Gap Resort, and the William Gilchrist Museum of the Arts. 

I can be reached by Email at charlesacarnahan@frontiernet.net.