ROSEMARY CONNELLY ART

Ristorante Fontanella-a watercolor of golden yellow buildings in Perugia, Italy

Mixed media painting of red flowers on a gold and green background with collage elements

ABOUT ME

Watercolor was my first love, although I also work in acrylics, collage, and mixed media. Playful use of line and color are hallmarks of my painting style and I find joy and inspiration in historic towns, aging factories and barns, botanicals, and abstract patterns.

I lived in Italy with my late husband Bob, a photographer, where we fulfilled our dream, to "live cheap and make art." My memoir Two Years in Italy is available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and eBook. Travel remains an integral part of my life and work.

My paintings been included in shows at Peninsula Gallery in Lewes, Station Gallery in Greenville, and Biggs Museum in Dover, DE. I practice and teach the art of Watercolor Journaling and Urban Sketching and have taught workshops throughout Delaware and beyond.

I studied fine art, drawing, painting and graphic design at Arizona State University and for over 20 years I worked as a professional graphic designer. I am a board member of Mispillion Art League in Milford, DE, a member of Rehoboth Art League, a founding member of Urban Sketchers Delaware, and for five years, I was Chair for The Big Draw Festival DE, part of the world's biggest celebration of drawing presented by Mispillion Art League

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Photo of Rosemary in Cuba sketching, wearing a yellow hat and colorful shirt

"I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living."

Robert Henri

WATERCOLORS

Some with Pen and Ink - Click on the image to see the entire work

A View of Ragusa Ibla, Sicily

Seen Better Days

Storm Warning, Cinque Terre, Italy

Paestum Train Station, Napoli

Laundry Day, the Trulli, Puglia, Italy

Cascade of Orchids

Basilica di San Antonio, Padua

Piazza Duomo, Orvieto, Italy

Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain

Ristorante Fontanella, Perugia, Italy

Morning at Abbotts Mill, Milford, DE

Basilica San Marco, Venice, Italy

SONGBIRD SERIES

Mixed Media

Tufted Titmouse

Grey Catbird

Indigo Bunting

Female Yellowthroat

Chicadee

Kingbird

PLANT SERIES

Mixed Media

Yellow Tulip

Bird of Paradise

Cactus and Succulents

Peace Lily

Orchids on Blue

Pothos

URBAN SKETCHING

My Urban Sketching work is done on location with pen, ink and watercolors to capture a moment.

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Besalu, Spain

Casa Amatller, Barcelona, Spain

Odessa, Delaware

Savannah Market

Barcelonetta Beach

Neighbor's House, Brittany, France

WATERCOLOR JOURNALING

Watercolor Journaling is akin to Urban Sketching but it doesn't have to be a location. It can be done anywhere you are and of anything you wish to draw!

My Chair, on black paper

Clothing I took to Cuba

Peaches

Holly in my Green Jar

Gourds sketch

Jessica's Plants in the Window

ABSTRACTS

Mixed Media and Collage

We'll Meet Again

Songs of Girona

When I Wish

My Dreams of Italy

Coat of Many Colors

Together Again

WORKSHOPS AND EVENTS

2025 Concertina sketchbooks no background

Page in Brittany Journal for enewsleter_edited.jpg

Make a Concertina Sketchbook
and fill it with your own Nature studies

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Rehoboth Art League

12 Dodds Lane, Rehoboth Beach

www.rehobothartleague.org

302-227-8408

Always wanted to try making your own sketchbooks? The concertina or accordion fold sketchbook is one of the easiest to make! Rosemary will provide the backing board, cover papers, watercolor paper and lots of fun ephemera to enhance your books, plus the bookbinding glue and other materials required to finish this project.

(a $15 materials fee will be payable to the instructor on day of class)

Students should bring their own watercolor kits, Waterbrush size Large, a waterproof permanent pen and any ephemera they want to add.

In the morning, we’ll make our books, and, in the afternoon, we will go out on the grounds to fill it with pen, ink and watercolor nature studies!

Urban Sketching (tentative)

Friday, October 24, 2025, 9:00 to 3:00pm

Mispillion Art League

5 N. Walnut St., Milford

www.mispillionarts.org

302-43-7646

Urban Sketching is drawing on location, indoors or out, capturing what the sketcher sees from direct observation. Urban sketchers use any kind of media to tell the story of their surroundings, the places they live, and where they travel. In this class you will use a pen with waterproof, permanent ink and watercolors in a blank journal filled with watercolor paper.

UPCOMING: Mispillion Art League Artists Studio Tour on Saturday, November 15, 2025, 9am to 4pm
Visit artists studios (including mine!) www.mispillionarts

THIS IS NOW FULL!
Sketching Holiday in the Loire Valley, France
May 29 - June 7 2026

TWO YEARS IN ITALY

With over 60 color photographs and watercolors, this book is filled with excitement, joy, some frustrations, and a little heartache. This is the story of how my late husband Bob and I, two fifty-somethings, retired, sold our home, put our things in storage, got a visa and went to live in Italy. Available on Amazon in hardcover, paperback and eBook.

Purchase on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Two-Years-Italy-fifty-somethings-retired/dp/B09YQGKBF1

Front and back of my memoir "Two Years in Italy" available on Amazon

CONTACT ME

Thank you for your interest. For any inquiries, commission requests or studio visits, please contact me.

Rosemary Connelly Art

livecheapmakeart@gmail.com

Milford, Delaware

1-302-359-5534