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Chris Potts

@chrispottsart

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Self taught Artist | Annapolis, MD | Father 👶🏼👶🏼👦🏻
Art Instructor @chesapeakeartscenter
@chrisrotts for tattoo specific art

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A self-taught artist, Chris draws inspiration from Maryland’s landscapes, beaches, forests, and the emotions that shape our lives. For Chris, painting is both a creative outlet and a form of healing.

UPCOMING CHRIS’S FALL CLASSES:
10/18 — Acrylic Winter Scene
10/25–11/15 — Lights & Shadows in Watercolor
11/22 — Holiday Greeting Cards
12/6–12/20 — Watercolor Basics

Come create with Chris at Chesapeake Arts Center! taken in Chesapeake Arts Center by @chrispottsart

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This painting represents a transformation my friend's life that can't be explained in words, only experience. Earning a black belt in any art represents years of discipline, training, and extreme dedication. Congratulations, and Thank you @bryceharley for allowing me to paint such an important piece of art for you🥋🙇‍♂️

Acrylic on canvas, framed in oak, 16" x 20"

#chrispottsart #dmvartist #annapolisartist by @chrispottsart

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Thunderstorms on high
24" x 36"
Watercolor
300# Hot Press
See it with the whole series 7/4 & 7/5
@andrewfrenchartandgallery
67 Franklin St, Annapolis MD

#chrispottsart by @chrispottsart

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4 months ago

Enjoy this digital gallery of collaborative art between @andrewfrenchartandgallery and myself @studio67naptown

We completed these completely blindly from each other with Andrew's ink drawing and my watercolor painting. Neither of us saw the completed other's half until the end, and it was a crazy challenge🐉🐉

All pieces are 24 x 36"
@winsorandnewton colors and @birminghampens ink on @archespapers 300# cold press

@middletontavern you know you want that on your wall!

DM for availability🤙🏼 by @chrispottsart

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3 months ago

I'd like to thank spring and the new year for inspiration. This series has evolved as my painting skills grow and evolve. These are amongst the first oil and acrylic paintings I've ever completed and I put lots of hours of learning and effort into them! Days, weeks, months spent practicing technique, watching Helen van Wyk on YouTube, and countless IG creators have paid off.

Special thanks to @andrewfrenchartandgallery and @iamlasercups for encouraging me and helping me learn from the community ✌🏼✌🏼🙌

Sneak peek of the next paintings at the end😋

36" x 48" acrylic on gallery canvas taken in Annapolis, Maryland by @chrispottsart

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6 months ago

With the year closing I wanted to share highlights from my classes in 2025! @chesapeakeartscenter has been absolutely pivotal in my development and I am eternally grateful for their support in helping to burgeon my art career.

In my short 6 years of painting and being an artist, I've met so many amazing people, been sent all over the east coast showing my work in galleries, museums, shows, and festivals. Hanging out with big art world people I didn't even know I was capable of standing near, let alone panting with! Here's to many more years painting and evolving. Thank you all so much for following, and supporting my journey.

Even more so thank the haters for pushing me to become better than I was every day. 🤙🏼♥️🔥 Love, peace, and chicken grease people

#chrispottsart #annapolisartist #chesapeakeartscenter #artinstructor #dmvartist #lovepeaceandchickengrease #johnleguizamo taken in Downtown Annapolis by @chrispottsart

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10 months ago

This week was some of the most magic I've ever experienced. I feel like my whole life has been leading up to this exact moment. Wandering the streets of Annapolis late at night painting, meeting so many absolutely BREATHTAKINGLY talented people, and getting to share in their most vulnerable displays of personal vision was pure chaotic magic. I couldn't be happier to be part of @mdfedart 's Paint Annapolis. It has changed my life to say the least.

Happy to present my nocturne entry for Paint Annapolis' public artists category "5 Cornhill St."

11" x 13" painted in Holbein professional watercolors on Arches paper

#chrispottsart #paintannapolis2025 #paintannapolis #watercolorartist #pleinairpainter #thepinkhouse #38marylandavenue #annapolis taken in Annapolis, Maryland by @chrispottsart

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a year ago

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I didn’t grow up making art. I started painting in 2020. I’m AuDHD, and for most of my life everything felt too loud or too much. Painting gave me a way to process all of it without needing to explain.

I’m not aiming for perfection. I paint to feel, to reflect, and to reconnect. These pieces are records of time, thought, survival, and humanity.

Thanks for being here. More work coming soon.

#chrispottsart #neurodivergentartist #audhd #emotionalart #artistsoninstagramً taken in Annapolis, Maryland by @chrispottsart

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2 years ago

What's love got to do with it? Everything.

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#acuarelas taken in Annapolis, Maryland by @chrispottsart

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