Hard to believe but summer is almost here and it’s time to start planning the fun camp events for your kids for the summer. Take a look here for information about Art Camp for Kids for this summer. We have five fun and exciting weeks planned where kids ages 7-13 will paint beautiful creations based [...]
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TIme to Sign up for Summer Art Camp
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, art class, art lessons, Small Town Life, Summer art camp, Virginia Artist on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Three by Matisse, Well Sort of…
Posted in Art Camp, art class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on March 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I spent some time yesterday evening working on ideas for the kids to paint at Art Camp this summer. Check out info here for this summer’s schedule and photos from last summer. The three Matisse’s you see here are my copies of three of his paintings that we did in art camp or art classes [...]
Art Campers Celebrate – One with 4 Generations!!!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, daily painter, reception, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist, young artists on October 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We had a great opening reception for the art campers yesterday afternoon at the Community Center. Many of the students were there and lots of art admirers to encourage their work. It was good to see the students showing off their work to their family and friends. And I especially loved that [...]
Art Camp Show Opening
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art class, art lessons, impressionism, Landscape on October 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
We had the BEST weeks of Art Camp this summer. Some of you may have watched as the kids progressed with their work. We studied impressionism, post-impressionism, modern & abstract art. This afternoon from 5-6 at the Community Center there will be a reception for these young artists. If you are in Front Royal and [...]
Final Day of Art Camp
Posted in art class, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, art class, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our final painting for Art Camp was a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. He did a couple of them…most people only recognize the one. Here are the kids working on theirs. We got so busy finalizing everything and framing their works for the week that I forgot to take a photo of the final [...]
Art Camp – Matisse
Posted in Art Camp, art class, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Over the ages it has been a common practice for artists to copy famous painters work in order to learn technique, style, and color mixing. Degas, Monet, Renoir, and many of the famous names you will recognize applied and received copiers permission to copy paintings in the Louvre. Following in their footsteps, our Art Campers [...]
Art Camp – Day 3
Posted in Art Camp, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, art class, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week’s theme at Art Camp is a combination of several types of art. Yesterday at Art Camp we talked about Modern Art. We began painting a Matisse. You see Tyler here working on his. Once we got the Matisse to a good place, we went on to work [...]
Degas’ Horses
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Degas, farm animals, horses, impressionism, Virginia Artist on August 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Day Two of Art Camp: We painted Degas’ Horses. Beautiful job!
Art Camp Week 5 – Monet’s Poppies
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, poppies, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The final week of Art Camp for the summer began yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. We started by painting the color wheel and learning about color mixing. Then the young artists went on to learn about Monet and we painted this lovely version of Monet’s poppy field using just the three basic colors [...]
Van Gogh’s Starry Night by Art Campers
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Van Gogh, Van Gogn Starry Night, Virginia Artist on August 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The final “Masterpiece” that the Art Campers did during Art Camp was Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Great job guys! You did beautiful work this week.
