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12 x 12 oil on panel, plein air Sold
With all the rain we've had, I've had the wonderful challenge of painting grey days! Here's my attempt at the Elizabeth City Harbor!
Cheers - Dawn
Harbor Hangout
Plein air Thursday - 2013
This year my friend and fellow painter, Carol Violanda, and I started a new plein air group in Atlanta that meets up every Thursday. Our motto " We create the group, they will come!"
And so far it has worked out really well. I have made new arts friends and discovered all sorts of new places in Atlanta that I didn't even know existed. Here are few of the highlights of our adventures.
Hope to paint with you in 2014!
Hope to paint with you in 2014!
Using your Values to building a composition
| I just finished teaching a workshop on painting landscapes and I thought I would share a few tips. |
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| Original photo. This is a scene in France that I am working on. |
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| I often like to make a black and white copy so that I can just focus on the values and not be distracted by the color. |
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| I forgot to photograph Step 1 which was a monochromatic value study. This is Step 2 | . |
| Step 2: now that you have blocked in the large areas of light and dark, check to make sure you like the design of your composition. This is the time to make adjustments. You can know start to build on the information you have down. |
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Step 3: Working within in the pattern of your light and dark values, start to build the color.
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Step 4: continue to build the color, still mindful of your values. You can now begin to add details
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Step 5: Adding more detail and adjust the colors. If you keep your colors in the correct value range, you will keep the compositional design.
Now for the fun to start - laying in the details and rich color. At this point, you are free to paint. You have your foundation set, so have fun.
I will post the finished painting ASAP
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I will post the finished painting ASAP
Cheers, Dawn
Paintings from the Still Life Workshops last week
I had 20 wonderful artist join me this past weekend for a palette knife work shop. I had a class of 10 both days. Below are the demonstrations I completed in class to show the different steps of building a painting. The students were great and really got a lot of work done.
Thanks to all of you wonderful artist for coming out and spending the weekend with me. I hope to see you again!
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| Still Life #1 - This is my husbands favorite and he wants to hang it in the house. Very Cool |
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| Still Life Demo #2 12 x 16 |
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| Still life #3 12 x 16 It is always interesting to see the variety of paintings you can get from one still life. The flowers are still fresh enough, so I started a 36 x 48 of the same still life. I'll post a photo soon. I Will be offering one more work shop on the Palette Knife Still Life Saturday, February 18, 10 - 3 pm Spruill Center for the Arts 5339 Chamblee Dunwoody More info Cheers! Dawn |
Winter Painting Classes
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Dogwood Festival is this weekend @ Piedmont Park
Make sure to stop by and see me this weekend at the Dogwood Festival.
It is back in Piedmont Park this year and you can find me at booth # 119.
Come in at the 14th street entrance and go left.
Friday 12 - 9
Saturday 10 - 9
Sunday 12 - 7
Hope to see you this weekend.
Cheers!
Dawn
SCAD SUMMER SERIES:PAINTNG
We are almost finished with the first week of SCAD summer series. Here are a few photos from the painting class. Check in tomorrow to see their completed projects.
Feature students of the week!
Kathryn Bomar
Debbie Ezell Both of these students finished a painting in just 3 classes. Congratulations Kathryn and Debbie!!
Well, we have finished classes for the summer. When classes start back in the fall, I think it will be fun to feature different students every week. Something to look forward to.
Classes will begin at Spruill on September 16th and will still be on Tuesday from 1:00 - 3:30.
Artist hard at work on the last class at Spruill Annex.
I want to thank you all for your hard work this summer. Have a great 4th of July and I will see you in September.
Cheers!
4th Annual Art Show at Binders
Every year Binders hosts a gallery opening for my painting students from SCAD Atlanta and Spruill Community Arts Center. We had another great and successful show this year. Seven paintings were sold on opening night.
Thank you for all those you helped out and made it possible. The food and wine were excellent (thanks to 103 West and Bret Kathey from Icon Estates) and of course there was the great music preformed by Eddie Varsalona!!
The show will be up through July 2nd. Please stop by if you get a chance.
Binders is located at
3330 Piedmont Rd
Atlanta GA 30305
404 237 6331
