Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Through faux finishes, fine art techniques and general originality, Reneé Roberts is able to leave her artistic imprint almost anywhere.
Reneé Roberts will paint on anything for anyone. This trained artist said she loves a challenge and has painted on everything from cabinets to wedding dresses; yes, to be worn during the wedding. Art comes easily to her, and her clients benefit from her prowess. The daughter of a military surgeon, Roberts was constantly on the move. After her father passed from cancer, Roberts and a high school friend moved to Atlanta where Roberts earned an art scholarship at a little known high school in Druid Hills. She took her artistic assets to the American College for Applied Arts in Buckhead and focused on fine art. “When I was in school, fine art was really my thing. I painted exactly what I saw, really detailed stuff,” Roberts explained. Since …
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Emma Hoeflinger has an innate love and talent for music and strives to give this joy to her audience.
Emma Hoeflinger, Copper Coin barista and local musician, started out performing in talent shows with her sisters, but later decided to push herself musically. She learned to play the guitar as a means to accompany herself as a vocalist. She knew she wanted to impart the emotions music can bring, and her family was instrumental in her resulting success. “I would be nothing as a musician if it wasn't for the great guidance from my father and his incredible talent as a guitarist and vocalist," Hoeflinger said of the greatest influence on her music. "I grew up watching my father play in churches all over the world. Seeing the way his music filled people up with joy and gave them such feeling simply astonished me as a child. I knew I wanted to …
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Mary Zeman brightens her life with the creations she makes on her canvases.
With no formal training under her belt, local artist Mary Zeman finds all of her artistic skills within herself. She first began painting in 1997 after she underwent brain surgery at Piedmont for a benign tumor. Unable to work her job at Turner Broadcasting for two months, Zeman arranged a ride to the arts and crafts store Michaels for her first set of paints. Zeman first painted on an old dresser drawer set and claims she did not paint on canvas for about a year. She still continues to paint on whatever she can find, and her choices result in unique and varied art. When she finally returned to her job later that year, she hung a variety of pieces in her cubicle. Passing coworkers suggested she research Howard Finster. Zeman felt prompted …
Sunday, May 1, 2011
David Eldridge Smith has experienced the tribulations of cancer multiple times and uses his art to work through his struggles.
For local artist and cancer patient David Eldridge Smith, life has been anything but easy. He was born into a military family; his Air Force enlisted father met his Italian mother in North Africa. Eldridge was dealt a bad hand early in life in 1952 when he was diagnosed with his first cancer, a tumor in his left femur at 6 months old. During this time, radiation was one of the only options for treating cancer and was still a relatively new procedure. Eldridge's doctor convinced the boy's mother to give the treatment a try rather than amputation. The therapy was effective for treating the cancer, but caused Eldridge's leg to grow incorrectly. From six months until age 16, Eldridge underwent corrective leg surgery every 18 months. Missing …
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Etowah student plans to attend art school and perfect his already impressive techniques.
Local artist Christopher McCarthy is a senior at Etowah busily planning his artistic future. He is a talented painter, usually employing oils as his medium. His work also involves mixed media, graphite and charcoal. Eighteen-year-old McCarthy's style is difficult to describe because it involves both surrealism and magic realism. His obsessive attention to detail allows his paintings to be multidimensional and visually fascinating. He has contrasting styles at times, one consisting of collage-like, chaotic images and the other more minimalistic. “It's weird to be that polar. It's not so much that I'm versatile, I just enjoy it all. Stylistically, most things appeal to me. There are few major art movements in general that repel me,” McCarthy…
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Jas Watkins' unique style led to his victory in Patch's Facebook Art Contest, and he revealed the winning qualities that make him tick.
Artists everywhere strive for the type of creative determination that drives local artist and native Georgian Jas Watkins. He classifies his work as emotionalism saying that he intends to incite some sort of reaction from his viewers. Through his art, he shares his inner joy or strife and wants an emotional reciprocation from his audience. “I like creating things that either make people very happy or infuriates them. I want my work to always invoke some sort of emotional response," Watkins explained. "To me, that's what art is. Either people are put off by it or they embrace it, but it makes them stop and think." Watkins is a versatile artist, and his arsenal of artistic media includes pen, ink, pencil, spray paint, acrylic and oil. He is …
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Aaron Gibson played his own originals and some familiar covers for the audience on Saturday night.
Self-taught acoustic guitarist Aaron Gibson amazed the audience at Woodstock Coffeehouse on Saturday with his finger-picking skills. Gibson, Georgia resident for five years, said he originally learned guitar in response to a challenge. “Initially, I learned guitar to show up a kid that was on my bus freshman year of high school who told me I couldn't learn 'Tears in Heaven'. Then I learned it and started really enjoying the guitar." His mainly instrumental set included lots of originals, which he says come naturally to him. “If I had to pick one aspect of my music that I like, it is that for the most part I've never had to force it. If I have an idea in my head and I want to put it to music it either happens in 15 minutes or I simply can't…
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DONNIE CLAYTON BARBER
5:57 am on Monday, May 2, 2011
AMERICA IS ONE NATION UNDER GOD. I'M JUST A OLD MAN OF 60 YEARS OLD AND I'M A VIETNAM VET. PART INDIAN AND DISABLED. THAT DON'T MEAN ANYTHING TO ANYONE THAT LIVES ON THIS DEADEND STREET THAT I LIVE ON. I HAVE SMITHS ON 2 SIDES IN MY FAMILY. THANK YOU. YOURS TRULY DONNIE CLAYTON BARBER. more ›