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Donna Shortt - Premium Artist |
Donna Shortt is a life-long Indiana resident and skilled in the use of oils, watercolors, pastels and acrylics. She is now concentrating on perfecting her skills in the pastel and oil mediums. She enjoys painting plein air landscapes and light-filled still life sets in her studio. She is part of a group that meets weekly for life drawing as it is her continuing desire to improve her drawing and painting skills. |
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 Morning Harmony
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11 x 14 inches  Greenfield Bridge
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20 x 24 inches  Broken Spring
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18 x 18 inches  Morning Grace in the Pines
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21 x 21 inches
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Recent accomplishments include a Purchase Award from the Indiana State Museum in 2008 and a Best of Show in the fine arts professional division at the Indiana State Fair in 2007. She was also honored to be part of a pastel exhibit at the Richmond Indiana Art Museum in 2008 and held a solo exhibit at the Johnson County Museum of History, Franklin Indiana, in 2011.
She has held workshops in the pastel medium as well as weekly classes that teach adult students various ways to paint and draw with pastels, the surfaces and materials used as well as composition, color and under painting techniques.
She is a member of the Hoosier Salon, Indiana Artists Club, Indiana Heritage Arts, Brown County Art Guild, Pastel Society of America, Southside Art League and Indiana Plein Air Painters.
Artist Statement:My Inspiration to paint starts with the light at early morning or late afternoon and I would be content to spend most of my time capturing it. Color is just as important which is why pastels are my favorite medium. I consider each painting not a destination but a journey.
June '11
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 By the River
pastel
16 x 20 inches  Harmony of Spring
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21 x 21 inches  Country Road
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24 x 15 inches  Creek Thaw
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30 x 15 inches
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