People • Katherine Dolgy Ludwig

I have painted hundreds of portraits and these are some.

Sometimes these are about individual personalities, like this oil portrait of Connie in Manhattan, which shortlisted in London UK for both the National Portrait Gallery Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

And this large oil portrait of a woman in a New York studio.

A spontaneous watercolor of Sofia in her own room.

And here is an oil portrait of Claudia on Toronto Island.

And three giant watercolor portraits of Sofia on Toronto Island.

And a giant watercolor portrait of Richard and Charles at home.

_EveryoneWhoHelpedGetMy01Visa_ was a portrait series of individuals in a large group exhibited together. Some from the series of over 100:

_FaithPainting_ was a series of 60 individual portraits of Catholic Nuns, Arab Muslims, Orthodox Jews, and Hindus, all living together in Brooklyn, exhibited together for the New York Mayor’s Office Immigrant Heritage Week. Here are some:

_IndividualInUniform_ was a series of 75 individual portraits of 15 of each of the five branches of the U.S. Military — Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Army, and Air Force — exhibited first at the National Arts Club and then at the Pentagon. In the permanent collection of the Pentagon now remain 15 of these life-size watercolors from the series, 3 of each branch. Here are some:

In the ongoing series _freedom2BRselves_, I paint whole classrooms of Grade 5/6ers around the world and invite all of them and their families to visit the growing exhibits. Preteens look the same wherever you go and they all want that same thing, just to choose who they are. Here are some: