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2015 Certification Designs
to help you understand your strengths and weaknesses for the overall effect of the painting, and not personal preferences. The judges are an- swering questions on the critique form, and encouraging you to study where needed. Finishing and submitting your final painting is a huge accomplishment and one to be proud of.
As my first year as Certification Chair comes to a close, and moving into my second year, I’m excited about the accomplishments the Certi- fication Committee did this past year. Besides all the events we put on at conference we collected donated paintings from many artists to raise money to help fund our Certification booth and CDA/MDA Reception party. Thank you all who donated and purchased paintings. We raised over $2,100.
ACCREDITED DECORATIVE PAINTER
During our 2014 Conference in San Diego the Certification judg- es brainstormed the idea of a new entry level Accredited Decorative Painter (ADP) category to add to our program. The idea was then sent to the Board of Directors to request a task committee to further explore this possibility.
Seven MDA’s were chosen to help me with this task. Within two months we outlined our new Accredited Decorative Painter (ADP) category, came up with the new designs and reported back to the Board of Directors. We had to work quickly to get everything ac- complished before this year’s Conference where the new designs would be introduced.
During this year’s Annual Business Meeting, an update to the Standing Rules needed a two-thirds majority pass to include the new Accredited Decorative Painter (ADP) category. Not only did we get a unanimous vote by the membership, after the vote there was a roar of applause. It’s very rewarding to see the membership excited about this new category. We look forward to your participation.
Artists can choose to begin their journey with the Accredited Dec- orative Painter (ADP) level or the Certified Decorative Artist (CDA) level. All entries must complete the Certified Decorative Painter (CDA) level prior to moving onto the Master Decorative Artist (MDA) level.
Both the ADP and CDA Still Life Categories can be completed in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and colored pencil. The Stroke category must be painted in either oil or acrylic.
I would like to thank the task committee for a job well done. With- out their generosity of time and talent this would not have been accom- plished. The members of the task committee are: Sherry C. Nelson mda, tda, Kay Baranowski mda, Lisa Price mda, Dianne Crowther mda, Louise Jackson mda, tda, and Cheri Rol mda.
Stay tuned for more information, tips, videos, and painted examples in our . and Certification Corner articles in The Decorative Painter. I look forward to another year of chairing the Certification program.
ADP Stroke
CDA Still Life
ADP Still Life
CDA Stroke
MDA Stroke
MDA Still Life
All rights reserved. Designs may be used for personal study only and may not be taught. sdp © 2014-2015.
MDA Floral
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Congratulations to all who passed their CDA or MDA levels - you all have worked hard to achieve this goal. Please know all entries are judged as a number with no name attached. None of the judges know whose entry they are judging. The process is extremely fair and unbiased. If you submitted a board but did not pass this time around, please study your critique and read it with an open mind. The critiques are written