Venice Streetside (left) is currently being exhibited with the South Carolina Watermedia Society traveling show.  This painting won the Daler-Rowney Merchandise Award for the 2007 SCWS exhibit.  Go to: fineartsemporium.com for further information and the schedule for the traveling show.

Sun and Daughter, Assisi, and Hot Seat (below) were exhibited in the 2008 Art Educators Annual Invitational exhibit at Columbia University, SC during January and February 2008. 

Assisi was published in Splash 8: The Best of Watercolor published by North Light Publications 2004.  Sun and Daughter was published in Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets 2006.  Hot Seat is scheduled to be published in the Fall of 2008 with Splash 10: Passionate Brushstrokes.  

Summer 2008, Russell Jewell has been accepted as one of the top 30 plein air painters from across the US to participate in Colorado's Telluride Plein Air Competition June 29- July 5. 

Eastons' Venice (left) won second place in the Quick Draw competition in 2006 with Easton's Plein Air Competition in Easton, Maryland.

Summer 2008, Russell Jewell has been accepted as one of fifty plein air painters to participate in the fourth annual Plein Air Easton in Easton, Maryland.

Also in the news...Russell Jewell is in the process of developing a plein air viewfinder. Jewell anticipates receiving a US Patent on his product during the Summer of 2008.