Dogwood interview on CBS

The Dogwood festival was this past weekend. This is always a great home show for me. 

People always come out in droves looking for unique finds. My art was lucky enough to receive a little media attention. Check out my interview on CBS.

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?clipId=7002871&autostart=true

Hope to see you out there. 

Cheers,

Dawn

Around Town @ The Atlanta Dogwood Festival

My few seconds of Fame at the Dogwood Festival

Article by Rob Levins for the Midtown Patch


LIGHTS, CAMERA AND ACTION...... it’s the 76th Annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park. So far I rank it the most exciting Dogwood Festival in years... it's EXPLOSIVELY fun!

Well it's finally the weekend and your wondering what to do. Well for starters, hop on your bike, cruise down in your car, or if your like myself take a leisurely stroll down to Piedmont Park for the arts and entertainment event of the season. Because I was blown away yesterday by the impact this years Festival has to offer, I plan to return again today to be able to take in the many things I just couldn't get to because there was so much to see and do.

To make things easy for you, here is a snapshot of the hundreds of things you will encounter on your stroll through the park. So put on your comfortable walking shoes and let's have some FUN!

Festival Dates and Times:

• Saturday: 10 a.m. – 11 p.m.
• Sunday: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. 

Art Market- a total of 260 artists who are both local and from throughout the country have converged to Midtown to bring you an exciting variety of jewelry, sculpture, mixed media, paintings, photography and fiber art. What's exciting this year is that there are many NEW and creative works of art that will catch your attention and hopefully catch you to buy before somebody else does. Here are several "key" artists I caught up with to give us a little background on their incredible talent.

Booth 116- OBAMETALSMITH / goldsmith-silversmith- Artist, Obayana B Ajanaku

• Obayana (Oh-bey-yana) was born in Texas and transplanted to Decatur, Ga. A skilled gold and silversmith for 37 years, Obayana has trained with talented instructors from Mexico, Russia and Japan. His most popular jewelry style is his U hoop stirrup earrings that are reflective of the metal designs incorporated onto horse stirrups he saw in Texas while visiting rodeos with his grandfather. His creations are a must see if your looking for great jewelry.

Booth 120- DAWNART / expressionist oil painter-Dawn Kinney Martin

• Dawn is a 13-year resident of Atlanta and creates bold and colorful artwork in her Midtown studio home. The impact of COLOR is her trademark. Her passion to explore the depth and drama of color brings excitement to those viewing her art. She is also available for creating custom works of art for your home. So, if COLOR is your passion, Dawn is the person to see. 

Here is a link to read the full article by Rob Levins 

http://midtown.patch.com/blog_posts/around-town-the-atlanta-dogwood-festival

Hope to see you out there.

Cheers!

Dawn

Dogwood Festival April 20 - 22

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Dawn Art White Hot Lilies 40"x30" Oil on canvas Dawn Art @ The Atlanta Dogwood Festival The Dogwood Festival is Celebrating 76 years, and there are so many cool things going on this weekend to celebrate: great art, music, and kiddie stuff.  But I'm really looking forward to the great concert Saturday night - Roberta Flack at 7:30l! WooHoo - what fun. I have been painting all winter and have lots of new work. There is nothing like painting colorful still lifes  to get you through the cooler months, but I'm also having a lot of fun painting new local scenes as well. So come by and check it out. I'm in  Booth #120 (same as last year, near the 14th Street entrance) Dates and Times April 20-22 Friday 12 - 7 Saturday 10 - 7 Sunday 10 - 6 Booth #120 - Close to the 14th Street entrance Atlanta, GA more info...   The Atlanta Dogwood  Festival website -http://www.dogwood.org/ Hope to see you there! Zocalo 9"x12" oil and acrylic on canvas Upcoming Atlanta art showings Unsubscribe dawn165.dawndog1414@blogger.com from this list. Our mailing address is: Dawn Kinney Martin 180 B 11th St NE Atlanta, GA 30309 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2012 Dawn Kinney Martin All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile

The Process of teaching : Palette Knife Workshop - Landscapes

This is a little bit about my approach to teaching a one day workshop.

 I had a wonderful group show up for a 5 hour workshop today at Spruill. I know that it's a lot of information in a short amount of time. We covered some of the various techniques of the palette knife, along with a little color theory, and composition. 

Okay, maybe I should call it palette knife boot camp. 

I just like the idea of learning new techniques while working on a painting. 

Somethings will work, some not, ahh, that's better than just writing your abc over and over, right?

The first thing I do is work through the painting Alla Prima, which just means I do the painting in one sitting. I work wet paint into wet paint instead of working in stages and allowing paint to dry.

Once I have completed the painting once, I will break it down into stages.  By bringing in several different canvases showing the building process, I hope this will give the class a visual aid as I am lecturing and demonstrating in class.

Now I am ready to teach class.  I start with a talk about composition, value scale, tricks for landscape painting, and just how to prepare the canvas.  Now the class is ready to create their masterpieces.   Well, I  always throw in a little color theory through the class, but just in small doses.

Let the paintings begin!

I have my sample steps up. I hope that these will help show where I am going.  Also, it  is always helpful to see how just messy a palette knife painting can be while you are working on it.

This is one of the paintings I worked on in the workshop today.

I had a wonderful class today. Thank you for all the artists that came out and spent their Saturday with me. Keep up the good work.

Cheers,

Dawn

New painting demos from my winter classes

12x16 Demo for the palette knife workshop at Spruill in Feb (acrylics) 

9x10 Demo for the palette knife class at SCAD Atlanta  this March  (oils)

Oil painting class at GA TECh 16 x 16 - brush and palette knife

Ocean and Sky class and Callanwolde 36 x 48 - okay - lot's of color theory thrown in there as well. (oils)

20x24 Ocean and Water one day workshop demo at Callanwolde. (acrylics)

12 x 16 Ocean and Sky demo one day workshop at Spruill. (oils)

New work coming out of the studio. I love this time of year. I have a little break from traveling and get to spend most of my time in the studio. Below are the pieces I am working on right now.

36 x 48 Golden Sky Over Low Tide

24 x 48 Red Trees by the River

40 x 30 White Lilys 

Okay, this one might be more difficult to finish. My still life froze in the studio last night! Brrrr

36 x 48 Red Hot, White Lily and Blue

Having a great time working on new pieces. This year I am working simplifying my subjects and letting the color tell the story. 2012, here I come.

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!

Still Life #1 - This is my husbands favorite and he wants to hang it in the house. Very Cool

Still Life Demo #2 12 x 16

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