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Martindale Artworks Custom Pastel Pet & People Portraits & Original Design Greeting Cards |
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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who, with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun." Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) My Space Page |
Color Pastel Portraits by Artist Denny MartindaleColor Pastel Portraits by Artist Denny Martindale
About the Artist, Denny Martindale Hello! Welcome to the Martindale Artworks Website.
My name is Denny Martindale, I reside in Franklin Tennessee, and I am the proprietor of Martindale Artworks. I am a custom pastel portrait artist that hand draws each and every portrait without the help of a projector and I'm proud to be able to inform you that I have recently won an award from the Tennessee Art League's Juried Membership Show. I have harbored a love of art, animals, and nature from a very early age. I received my license in Veterinary Technology at Michigan State University. I also studied first year art at Mott Community College in Flint, Michigan. A change of work venue brought my husband David and me to beautiful Franklin, Tennessee (South of Nashville) where I have become intensely associated with the Tennessee Art League, located in Nashville's Music City. Here I started to combine my interests and my career as an artist. I am told that I am now considered one of the more popular Tennessee (TN) custom pastel portrait artists, but I think I'll leave those statistics to the pros. I have had numerous commissions for pet portraits, murals, landscape portraits and people portraits as well as a couple of book covers. There has been an increase in the amount of commissions for human portraits in the last two years and I have really enjoyed the challenge and the growth that has happened to my talent while painting these portraits. I work with photographs as a reference for the pet portraits. Each piece is hand drawn in charcoal, then layers of soft pastels are applied for the finished piece. With pastels, pencil, watercolor, oil, and a camera, I enjoy creating and expressing my concern for the environment through images of both wild and domestic animals. I thank God for letting me borrow these talents! Besides animals, I also enjoy the occasional floral or landscape painting. My work has been accepted into the Central South Art Exhibition, as well as other juried shows through the Tennessee Art League. I have also won awards at the Tennessee State Fair in the Tennessee Art Division and was invited to show in the Bettye Page Art Extravaganza in Nashville, TN. In 2001, I became a signature member of the Tennessee Art League, where I have served as historian, docent, and Vice-President and Membership Chairman. To learn more about the Tennessee Art League, visit http://www.tennesseeartleague.org/ Bio
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Custom hand drawn color pastel portraits. Get the cooperation you need and the quality portrait you deserve with my state-of-the-art painting techniques. Get all mats, frames, portrait previews, unlimited portfolio views and free address labels that include your portrait! I guarantee you will be satisfied! Denny Martindale is an extremely talented artist who has a beautiful eye for detail. Her portraits look like photographs instead of paintings. I literally had to ask her if what I was looking at was a photograph of a pet or an actual painting of the pet. As it turned out, it was one of her custom pet portraits that she had created for a mutual friend of ours. I knew the dogs in the portrait, and the techniques that Denny used in creating this portrait were just amazing to me; the dogs' coats looked shiny in the portrait, just like they do in real life, I just couldn't get over the talent that Denny posses that allows her to create the detail that just reached out and grabbed me while I gazed at the portrait. |
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