I love painting scenes of cyclists. I guess it makes me feel the joy of being out on two wheels while working in the studio! Here I'm using a photo by my friend and great photographer Kevin McPeake for my inspiration. You can check out his work on Facbook
Photo by Kevin McPeake. https://www.facebook.com/haagsefietschic/
I loved this photo when I saw it: love the diffused light and the mystery in the fog. I painted this image about a year ago ( middle image ), but decided to give it another try and work on the grays a little differently. Here's the second attempt ( the image on the right). I was a little bolder with the reds. Although it similar to the first painting, this one feel more like night time to me.
With all the rains, it's a good time to try to capture the force of a fast moving water fall. This is the finished plein air painting from Victory park train. This is the ruins of an old factory. The water has cut a path through it, so I call this one " Returning to Nature" I have to admit, I like the way this one turned out. I have been working on city scenes here of late, and they not my strong point, so it's nice to get back in my comfort zone for a little bit.
Cheers,
Dawn
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Happy 2016!! It's is hard to believe it's already here. I was able to take a little time off. Now, I'm looking forward to getting back the studio and classes. I have weekly classes and workshops starting soon. ***Keep an eye out for a new Abstract Workshop, with Lauren Adams, details soon.
WEEKLY CLASSES
Jan - March 1 6:15 pm - 9:30pm, 4 or 8 weeks
Tuesday Night Painting Studio - 140.00- 4 weeks, 240.00 - 8 weeks
I talked about painting starts and working with the palette knife last week in class and a few folks wanted to see how the painting progressed. This is where we left off after class.I know these are not the best photos, but I stopped to take photos of this 24 x 48 painting while it was up on the easel. I didn't take the time the set up a good shot, but I hope you get the idea.
After laying out my composition, I started making color notes.
Decided to change the boats a little bit. so I pulled out left over paint to adjust my drawing.
Still trying to decided my color palette and blocking in areas.
A little more progress, starting defining my horizon line and adding color to my boats.
That's all for know. I think I have a good idea of the direction to take it and hope to finish soon. I'll keep ya' posted
Sorry for the horrible photos and have a great time over the holiday season - Dawn
s course will cover issues like different way to handle the knife,blocking in design, color mixing , and capturing reflected light. Students
should expect to
loosen up and
create expressive paintings with a palette. Working with a palette knife allows a broad range of textures. Students learn the nuances of value, working wet in wet and layering in order to keep colors rich and vibrant. There will be an emphasis on color mixing and keep you colors clean (no muddy colors) This course will begin with a demo to cover the basic approach. Demonstrations will continue as well as working one on one with the students as you work on your paintings. All levels welcome. Appropriate for beginners. The class will be taught using oils. Please contact instructor at
In this fun and quick-paced course, students explore techniques used to create expressive paintings with a palette knife. Working with a palette knife to create a broad range of textures, students learn the nuances of value, working wet in wet and layering in order to keep colors rich and vibrant. There will be an emphasis on color mixing and keeping you colors clean (no muddy colors) This course will begin with a demo to cover the basic approach. Demonstrations will continue as well as working one on one with the students as you work on your paintings. All levels welcome, including beginners. The class will be taught using oils. Make sure to bring a sack
lunch and any snack and drinks that you need. There are no close by restaurants.
Bring what you have but this is what you need for class.
I prefer working in oils because my mixture will stay wet for the class. Acrylic will dry quickly so you will need to keep them wet with water or a retarder.
Here is a list of suggested colors. But bring what you have. I like to have cool or neutral yellow, a warm blue, and a cool red and blue. Sap Green, Yellow Ochre, and Burnt Sienna are just great to mix with.
** See more about pigment codes below*
Pick a cool red - Alizarin Crimson Pigment code PR83, or Permanent Rose Pigment code PV19 (primary).
Pick a warm red - Such as a Naphthol Red pigment code PR170, a Cadmium Red or hue - (either the light of the medium), the Cad light, PR108, will be more orange and the Cad Med, also PR108, will be more scarlett. An orange such as Cad Orange will work as well
Pick a cool or neutral Yellow - *Cadmium Yellow Light, PY 35 or PY3, or Cadmium Lemon PY 35 (primary), or Hansa Yellow PY 74
Pick a cool blue - Phthalo Blue, Phthalo Blue Green Shade PB 15 (primary), Cerulean Blue Chromium PB36. Prussia Blue, Manganese Blue – Just fine
Pick a warm blue - Ultramarine Blue PB29 , or Cobalt Blue PB 28
Titanium white 5OZ Tube (Opaque wihte)
Yellow Ochre PY 42, or Yellow Oxide, either will be fine will be fine. (Great for Mixing)
Sap green or any warm green (mixture & gray for mixing)
Optional colors to add later
Naphthol Red/ Cadmium Red or hue / an orange (Warm Red)
Dioxide Purple
(Combo of the red and blue primaries - great for mixing)
Burnt Sienna (Great for Mixing)
9 x 12, 12 x 12,12 x 16 or panel or larger (panels work better for palette knife, but canvas is fine for all other classes) Bring extra panels or canvas pad for practice
Acrylic and oil disposable Palette Pad 9 x12 . You can use a roll wax paper
Palette knives plastic or metal - The plastic 5 pack at Binders is great for beginners
***If just buying one get Utrecht 1003 or one similar to the image below
Paint thinner to help base coat your canvas. Turpenoid or liquid for oils - water for acrylics
Sketch pad
Pencil
Roll of paper towels
This is the end of the supply list - the rest is just useful info
If using oils you may want LIQUIN IMPASTO or Solvent
to extend the paint
If using acrylics you will need a
slow drying medium
or
retarder
and spray bottle for water to help slow the dry time.
* All have the same code PY35. Make sure to open the tube on Cad yellow light, Lemon and some times Cad Yellow Medium and check to see it doesn't have an orange tint. Same name and pigment code Cad Yellow - but some are neutral and some have too much red. Cad Lemon should be the coolest. You can always add red, but you can’t take it out**
**Where do you find the pigment codes and what does it tell me?
Manufacturers are free to give their art supply colors whatever name they deem appropriate. Different manufacturers give different names to the same color, even if the same pigments are used. Therefore, names may vary from one brand to another. I tend to buy single pigments except for color that I mix all the time. If love a mixture that I don’t want to buy, often the codes on the back will tell me how to mix it myself. Also, I like working with a lot of transparent colors. You can always add a touch of white to make them opaque.
Alizarin Crimson PR: 83 (single pigment)
PR: 83 – The first letter Identifies whether a pigment or a dye is used. Here the P indicates that a pigment is used.
PR: 83 – The second letter identifies the pigment code. Here, the pigment code stands for red.
PR: 83 – The number indicates the specific pigment number.
Sap Green PG7, PY75, PBk9 (mixture of three pigments)
***If just buying one, pick one of these
This is a good
variety to started
March 24 Spring Tues Painting Studio starts back Dawn Art Studios.
In this fun and
quick-paced course, students explore techniques used to create expressive
paintings with a palette knife. Working with a palette knife to create a broad
range of textures, students learn the nuances of value working wet in wet and
layering in order to keep colors rich and vibrant. There will be an emphasis on color missing
and keep you colors clean (no muddy colors). Also, as a landscape class, it
will address how to make your colors recede to suggest distance. This course
will begin with a demo to cover the basic approach. Demonstrations will continue as well as
working one on one with the students as you work on your paintings. All levels welcome. Appropriate for beginners.
The class will be taught using oils. Please contact instructor at dawn@dawnart.com with any questions.
Well, the studio is finally open and last night was the first class. It was such a hubbub of activity, I completely forgot to take any photos. But here it is the next day. I love having all this activity in the studio. Just feels great to walk through it. Maybe next week I'll remember to take a photo of artists at work.
In
this fun and quick-paced course, students explore techniques used to create
expressive paintings with a palette knife. Working with a palette knife to
create a broad range of textures, students learn the nuances of value, working
wet in wet and layering in order to keep colors rich and vibrant. There will be an emphasis on color missing and
keep you colors clean (no muddy colors) This course will begin with a demo to
cover the basic approach. Demonstrations
will continue as well as working one on one with the students as you work on
your paintings. All levels welcome. Appropriate for beginners. The class will
be taught using oils. Please contact instructor at dawn@dawnart.com with any questions.
In this fun and quick-paced course, students explore techniques used to create expressive paintings with a palette knife. Working with a palette knife to create a broad range of textures, students learn the nuances of value, working wet in wet, and layering in order to keep colors rich and vibrant. There will be an emphasis on color missing and keep you colors clean (no muddy colors) This course will begin with a demo to cover the basic approach. Demonstrations will continue as well as working one on one with the students as you work on your paintings. All levels welcome. Appropriate for beginners. The class will be taught using oils. Please contact instructor at dawn@dawnart.com with any questions.
Supply List Palette Knife Workshop / Beginning painting
For questions email dawn@dawnart.com
If you already have paints, bring what you have but this is what you need for class.
I prefer working in oils because my mixture will stay wet for the class. Acrylic will dry quickly so you will need to keep them wet with water or a retarder.
Here is a list of suggested colors. But bring what you have. I like to have Cadmuim Yellow and a warn red and blue and a cool red and blue. Sap Green, Naples Yellow. and Burnt Sienna are just great to mix with, but you don't have to have them.
Alizarin Crimson
Cadmium yellow, or hue
Ultramarine blue or phtalo blue
Sap green
Titanium white 5OZ Tube
Yellow Ochre or Yellow Oxide or Naples Yellow. Any will be fine
Optional colors
Burnt sienna
Cobalt Blue
Naphthol Red/ Cadmuim Red or hue / an orange- Optional
12x12, 12 x 16 Canvas or larger
Acrylic and oil disposable Palette Pad 9 x12 . You can use a roll wax paper
Palette knives plastic or metal - The plastic 5 pack is great to start with
If just buying one get Utrecht 1003
Sketch pad
Pencil
Roll of paper towels
If using oils you may want LIQUIN IMPASTO to extend the paint
Still in works but here's what 's scheduled so far
Tuesday Night Painting Studio Sept 23 - Nov 18 Tues evenings 6:30 - 9:30 DawnArt Studios Palette Knife Workshop: FAll Trees September 27 @Spruill Art Center Plein air workshop
Paint the Fall colors
Parker Ranch in Clayton GA Oct 10 - 12 Friday - Sunday 210.00 includes instruction, lodging, breakfast, and social hour
Palette knife workshop Nov 1 @ Callanwolde Fine ArtsCenter
Palette Knife Workshop Capture the Light Dec 13 @ Spruill
Announcing the Zoo’s first-annual plein air event, “Art Gone Wild,” Over 30 artists have spent the week capture the zoo on canvas. Stop by this Saturday to see what we've created. An art show and silent auction will take place on Saturday, June 14. Check out the website
Upcoming classes, workshops, and events
Tuesday Night Painting Studio
July 8 - July 29
Tues evenings 6:30 - 9:30 4 week session
As an ongoing class you have lots of flexibility and can always make up classes.
Callanwolde Fine Arts Center
Tuesday Night Painting Studio 6:30 - 9:30 Sept 23 - Nov 18
Tuesday Night Painting Studio 6:30 - 9:30Sept 23 - Nov 18
DawnArt Studios 180 11th St Ne, Atlanta GA 404 399 0853 dawn@dawnart.com September 23 - November 18, Tuesdays 6:30 - 9:30 No Class Nov 4th
This course emphasizes artistic development in a relaxed and fun studio environment with a variety of music to keep you motivated. Regardless of your level of training or ability, you work on your own projects, using any medium you choose, in this self-paced class. You are encouraged to pursue individual interests and further develop your unique style. The instructor is available for guidance, motivation and demonstrations of technique. There will be class demos as well as individual assistance. Bring your painting supplies and reference materials to the first class sessions and be prepared to work. This is an on going class that offers a lot of flexibility for the students. Be a part of it, ongoing student are invited to participate in the 11 annual art show at Binders. Please contact the instructor with any questions about materials and what to bring for the first class.
Mark you calendars for May 30 - June 1. The plein air group is headed to the Parker Ranch for a great weekend of plein air painting. We can come up Friday evening or Saturday morning, it's up to you! Contact Becky Hoover becky@parkersranch.com
I will be in booth 21 which is right there on Old Canton.
Stop by and check out my new paintings!
Presenting artists from throughout the U.S., the Alpharetta Arts Streetfest is a yearly celebration of the arts in the Alpharetta Historic District. We will close downtown streets and fill them with original high-quality art, jazz and acoustical music, cultural arts performances, and children’s activities.
After such a long standing pattern of great weather for the start of the only to lead to horrible weather on Thursdays, the pattern has finally broken and we've had a couple of nice Thursdays in a row. This week it was actually cold and rainy on Wed and Friday, but perfect for us on Thursday.
My friend Carol and I started Pleinairthurdays back in September. We meet each Thursday somewhere in the Atlanta area and paint plein air. We have a Facebook page for the group where we post the location each week and anyone can join us. I love the practice! I have always been an outdoorsy sort and I just love the challenge of painting on location. It has turned out to be a great way to explore the city, but really the best part is the fellowship with other artists. It's so great to out of the studio and paint with other artists.
If you think you might want to join us, check out our page pleinairthursdays .
After painting the afternoon away, I decided to take advantage of the location and hike Kennesaw Mountain.
Update - I just touched this up in the studio and I think I'm happy with it. I have been trying for awhile to figure out how paint the scrubby trees as they are just coming out to bloom.
What a great day to be out there painting! A good start for spring. I went back to the Nature Reserve this week and tried to finish my painting from last week.
I was listening to the book"Julia Child" while painting today, I got so involved, I forgot to snap a photo before leaving. Here's what I got done today.
"Just 'cause it's sunny doesn't mean it's warm!" 5x7 oil on canvas. Okay, I knew it was going to be cold, but I wasn't prepared for the wind. It might have gotten up to 40, but I was still chilly all day. Oh, well, at least I 'm here in sunny Florida painting up a storm!
Apparently my subject wasn't very warm either. Just as I started my painting, he went in to warm up and never can back! I ended up just having to make someone up to be the artist at work. Maybe I should title this on "Union Break". Haha! Tomorrow should be cooler, so I'll be wearing more layers for sure. Saturdays weather should be perfect!!
RECEPTION, 5:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M., LAKESIDE BUILDING, 1290 CIRCLE DRIVE. FREE & OPEN TO PUBLIC.
LakeYard, Circle Drive
Plein Air Paint Out - Professional artists will be dotting the Lake Yard landscape to paint their individual conception of activities, buildings, people and whatever else they envision going on in this area. Observe the artists at work. Individual finished works of art will be on display in the Hall of Brotherhood as they dry and will be available for purchase.
