News & Blog
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Award-winning
See my announcement on Instagram! For immediate release: Readers’ Favorite recognizes “Catching Waves” by Dawn Marie Hooks in its annual international book award contest, currently available at Amazon. The Readers’ Favorite International Book Award Contest featured thousands of contestants from over a dozen countries, ranging from new independent authors to NYT best-sellers and celebrities. Readers’…
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Brave Little Hearts Series™ Logo
Thank you so much to all those who helped create and decide on the logo for Brave Little Heart Series™!!! While I’ve had the series name for a long time, I decided it was time to create a logo for it (instead of simply a title). Thank you to my daughter, who’s in marketing, for…
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Available Now in Hardcover
Catching Waves is available in hardcover, paperback, and as an ebook! Catching Waves is part of my Brave Little Hearts Series. See here to read more about it!
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CATCHING WAVES: A BOARD, A PIG, AND HOW A LITTLE GIRL BECAME A WAKESURF CHAMPION
This is the true story about how Raleigh Hager, with determination and dreams of a mini pig, became the youngest professional world wakesurf champion. From the moment little Raleigh Hager popped up on a surfboard at five years old, the waves held her heart. She couldn’t imagine anything as exciting as becoming a surfer girl…
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Brave Little Hearts Series
A NEW BOOK WILL SOON BE ADDED TO THE BRAVE LITTLE HEART SERIES. Stories of courage, connection, and the heart of childhood. The Brave Little Hearts Series is a heartfelt picture book series that celebrates the everyday bravery of children as they face life’s joys, changes, and challenges. Whether they’re asking big questions, coping with change,…
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Surf Art: Dawn Hooks Artist Series
I love seeing my artwork on these Soulcraft custom boards as part of their “Dawn Hooks Artist Series.” It’s even more awesome to see the boards on the water!
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Watercolor Surf Art
I created six large original watercolor paintings for Soulcraft’s Dawn Hooks Artist Series, using vibrant colors and layers of paint. To paint larger pieces like these, I start by painting eight smaller ones. Then, I choose the six I want to paint larger. The challenge here was choosing the best method to stretch the giant…
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Surf Art: Dawn Hooks Artist Series
I painted these images for Soulcraft Boarding, inspired by my love of wakesurfing. Have you been wakesurfing? It’s always best to go when the waters are glassy. Soon, though, our boat creates the perfect endless wave, and all the wakesurfers on board take turns shredding. I absolutely love to see artwork on boards as they…
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Surf Art
I created these six paintings as part of a project with Soulcraft Boarding. I love to use multiple layers of paint to create texture and movement. I think my favorite step was splattering paint to create the water spray. It’s awesome to see how the texture shows even on printed images — both on Giclée…
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Paint Night
Occasionally, I have the pleasure of teaching a paint night. Last night, I led this group of lovely ladies as they painted desert scenes on 8×10” canvases. I demonstrated each step while encouraging them to be creative as they blended sunset colors and painted whatever cacti they chose. Just as each of them are beautifully…
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Two Favorite Things
Two of my favorite things are wakesurfing and painting. I painted a sunset wave using acrylic paints on a 16″×40″ canvas. Blusurf used my art on the bottom of my custom wakesurf board. The original painting is hanging on my wall, and I get to wakesurf on this awesome board every time I go out. Check out…
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Watercolor Painting Lessons
I teach watercolor to this awesome student. We’ve explored watercolor pencils and different type of watercolor paints (liquid, pan, and cream). This student is particularly interested in painting colorful creatures. For the “Colorful Cow,” she used watercolor pencils and liquid watercolor and learned to splatter and drip paint. We also talked about balance. It’s fun…