THE PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF ATLANTA JURIED SPRING EXHIBITION

JOIN US FOR THE PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF ATLANTA'S JURIED SPRING EXHIBITION

Opening reception: Saturday, May 8th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
The Gallery at Paper Mill Village, 255 Village Parkway, Suite, 320, Marietta, GA 30067

Judge: Dawn Whitelaw (Tennessee)

Show dates through May 28th.

GARY BODNER - ALWAYS ONE TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS!

Donna Thomas, Angela Nesbit, and Gary Bodner sharing a KODAK moment!!! We hade a great evening at The Gallery at Paper Mill Village.

MERIT AWARD WINNERS - PALETTE KNIFE EXHIBIT

Judge: Angela Nesbit, Gallery Director, Donna Thomas, Melissa Payne Baker, Beth Stormont, and Arleen Turzo. Missing: Maureen Engle, Julie Mann, Patricia Meyers.

MERIT AWARD WINNERS - PALETTE KNIFE EXHIBIT

Melissa Payne Baker (award winner) and Beth Stormont (two time winner) stand with Beth's husband, Jim, in celebrating an exciting opening reception for the Palette Knife Exhibition.

ANGELA NESBIT - JUDGE FOR PALETTE KNIFE EXHIBIT

The Gallery at Paper Mill Village is currently hosting a palette knife exhibit which Angela judged for merit awards. One of the recipients is of the painting behind her, that by Arleen Turzo who attended her workshop, "Roses & Neutrals".

ANGELA'S GROUP

The entire group enjoyed Angela's style of instruction. She was able to give every student ample instruction in palette knife technique...

ANGELA NESBIT - DEMO

Angela Nesbit discussing the design of her painting to the well attended demo!

ANGELA NESBIT - PREPARING FOR PALETTE KNIFE WORKSHOP

Selecting the best flowers for her bouquet demo...a real challenge for .

KEN AUSTER AT WORK!

CITY LIGHTS - AUSTER

The warm and the cool side of the street....amazing!!! He brings life to people out of dark splotches of color!

ALIEN COLOR - KEN AUSTER

Ken Auster's first demo...with alien color (in this case phthalo blue) and all in the bell tower... how he wormed his way through with value lines to direct the eye to the focal point...he discussed having the ability to take a viewer exactly where he wanted to take them with line, color, detail and contrast...the focal point which is where he begins his paintings in making a road map the first fifteen minutes to lay out the design.

FROM THOSE BLACK BLOBS OF PAINT...

The finished Ken Auster product! Finished in about an hour...

A phrase Ken used over and over again...if it is "not working" in the first 30 minutes, start over!!!

KEN AUSTER - DEMO WORKS

Wow! It has been too long. Since I last wrote both Ken Auster (Laguna Beach, CA) and Angela Nesbit (Charlotte, NC) have been her to hold workshops!

So, to begin with Ken...BRILLIANT!!! You could hear a pin drop during his incredible demo and lecture. What a master at his art!!

To begin...the focal point - his spider with its abstract web. How he was able to control the viewer's eyes with line, value, contrast and "alien" color...a color that is not found anywhere else in the work.

And, my how he is able to pull off actual gestural figures from a black blob of paint.