Award winning Master Portrait Painter to hold workshop at Island Art Association

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by Ronald Rand

January 26, 2016 9:30 a.m.

Martha Carpenter acclaimed as one of the foremost Portrait Painters in America to present workshop. 

February 5, 6, and 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Island Art Association, North 2nd Street, Fernandina Beach, FL

Martha Carpenter

Through this amazing workshop, using a still life as the subject matter, Ms. Carpenter will emphasize canvas preparation, usage of materials, drawing, color mixture, composition, value, intensity of color and application of pigment. Each of the three sessions will begin with a demonstration done in the alla prima technique using a limited palette (three primary colors and white). Following the demonstrations students will create their own successful paintings working from a still life.

The cost to participate is $400.  A $200 deposit is required.  To register, contact Diane Withrow at moc.loa@13worhtiw or 904-261-8536.

For several years she worked as a freelance artist accepting assignments to design and execute massive murals, interior and exterior, some measuring  thirty by ninety feet. Throughout her career, Ms. Carpenter has been in numerous exhibitions and publications, which have culminated in a consistent influx of private and corporate portrait commissions.

Carpenter's awards include Certificate of Recognition as the Winner of the Portrait

Society of America International Competition, American Artist Magazine’s National Portrait Competition, Portrait Society of America annual portrait competition, and repeated “Top Ten” awards for her extraordinary portraits.

Ms. Carpenter's paintings have been exhibited at the Centre International

d’Art Contemporain in Paris, France, in a Salon des Nations exhibition

promoting independent American artists.

After study at the Alabama School of Fine Arts in Birmingham, Ms.

Carpenter received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Western Kentucky

University, at the Kentucky Institute for European Studies in Bregenz,

Austria, and extensive European study-travel throughout many countries.