Representational Abstract is a form of painting that combines the loose ease of abstract with art we recognize. Even though we see the bright colors and long brush strokes in this work we can still see that it looks like a landscape scene. This is some of the things we will explore on Saturday at [...]
Posts Tagged ‘art lessons’
Abstract Landscape
Posted in daily painter, art class, Abstract, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, art class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
More Hearts…
Posted in art class, tagged acrylic, art class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, heart, impressionism, valentine, Virginia Artist on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
More hearts. The one on the left I did with the Thursday Kids Class and the one with the dark background I painted with the ladies at The Southerlands. We had a wonderful time painting abstract hearts as valentines for our “sweethearts”.
Young Artists and Hearts
Posted in art class, tagged Abstract, acrylic, art class, art lessons, heart, hearts on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This week we painted beautiful abstract hearts as a run up to Valentine’s Day. I love how different they all are. Terrific job everyone!
A Green Sock Monkey?
Posted in art class, tagged acrylic, art class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, pet portrait, sock monkey, Virginia Artist on January 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago Mia (on the left in photo) brought in a sock monkey that she had gotten. It sings! We decided to have a photo shoot and took some pictures of sock monkey and painted his portrait. Good job girls.
Pandas
Posted in art class, tagged acrylic, art class, art lessons, daily painting, impressionism, Panda, Panda bear on January 27, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Wednesday Young Painters Thursday Young Painters This week the young artists painted Pandas. Super cute! Great job everyone. If you have a young artists, ages 7-13, that might like to paint with us just let me know. kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com
More Ducks
Posted in art class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, art class, art lessons, daily painter, duck, farm animals, impressionism, Virginia Artist, young artist on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week you saw the Thursday Young Artist’s duck paintings. Here are the Wednesday’s Young Artists with their ducks from yesterdays class. Great job! Remember that there is class every Wednesday or Thursday at 4:15-5:15 for kids ages 7-12 at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Just contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com if you have a young artist who [...]
Fancy, the German Short Hair Pointer Pup and Jade!
Posted in art class, daily painter, dogs, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, dogs, German Shorthair Pointer, GSP, impressionism, pet portrait, Rescue dogs, Virginia Artist on January 17, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Meet Fancy. She’s a German Shorthair Pointer pup that belongs to some friends. I met her yesterday and you talk about cute!!!! She oozes cute. Now meet Jade. Fancy is a member of her family and she wanted to paint a picture of her for her mom. We met yesterday for a lesson and she [...]
Olivia with an Iris
Posted in art class, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on January 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Olivia painted this beautiful Iris last weekend for her grandparents. She did a lovely job. She takes private lessons with me. I have many young artists painters that I work with either in class (ages 7-12) or taking private lessons. Kids younger than 7 often do best with one on one instruction in art. If you [...]
Polar Bears
Posted in art class, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, polar bear on December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our young artists painted polar bears this week. You can see the photograph that we used on the wall behind Michael’s head. My friend, Jennie, took this photo while on an expedition to visit these beautiful creatures last year. She shared this photo and a couple of others with me so they kids could paint [...]
