Color Pastel Portraits by Artist Denny Martindale

Color 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 

• 1991-1993 Served as Historian for the Tennessee Art League, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1992- Purchase Award at the Tennessee State Fair, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1993- Accepted into the 32^nd annual Central South Art Exhibition juried show at the Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1994- One of 30 artists nationwide to show in the Bettye Page Art Extravaganza, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1995- 1997- Served as Vice-President and Membership Chairman for the Tennessee Art League, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1994- One-person show at the Brentwood Library, Brentwood, Tennessee.
• 1994- One-person show at the Café Milano, Franklin, Tennessee.
• 1995- One-person show at the Tennessee Art League, Nashville, Tennessee.
• 1995- Exhibited in Celebration '95 at the Centennial Arts Center, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1996- One-person show at the Leipers Fork Library, Franklin, Tenn.
• 1997- Accepted into the 36^th annual Central South Art Exhibition juried show at the Parthenon, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1997-Accepted into the Trans Financial "Celebration of the Arts" juried exhibition, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1998- Accepted into the 37^th annual Central South Art Exhibition juried show at the Parthenon, Nashville, Tenn.
• 1998- Accepted into the Tennessee Art League's annual juried Membership show, Nashville, Tenn.
• 2001- Awarded Signature Member status with the Tennessee Art League.
• 2002- First place award in the Pastel/Graphics division at the Tennessee Art League's annual juried Membership show.
• 2002- One-person show at the Tennessee Art League.
• 2005- Two-person show with Christian Gregory at the Tennessee Art League.
• 1994-Present- numerous commissions for pet portraits across the country.
• 2007- Second Place in the TAL Juried Membership Show for "Heart and Soul"
• 2007- Accepted into the Central South Art Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee.

    My husband and I attend church at Grace Chapel in Leipers Fork, Tennessee

  .  Artists from various areas of Leipers Fork have contributed to the murals on the walls inside of Grace Chapel and I was honored to be one of those artists. Pastor Steve Berger is the Senior Pastor at Grace Chapel and if you would like to take a peek at the services just visit the website at www.gracechapel.net   and click on Listen, Download Sermons on the right side of the site.