Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Farms and Barns Show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council opened last night with a good crowd coming in to see it.
Here is my Oxbow Sunflowers along with my four Thursday young artists version of the same scene. It looks great hanging all together.
I also have a display of Farm Animals hanging for this show. They look pretty good altogether like this.
Stop by BRAC to see these and all the other nice paintings of Warren County.
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on August 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Last week my young artists at Angel’s Korner began painting a larger painting (11″x14″). They made nice progress.
Yesterday they completed their paintings and didn’t they do a really nice job??!!
After leaving my 34 young artists I met with Jacob and Kelsey, my private students from West Virginia who come here to make beautiful art. Their paintings were really great!
Then at regular Wednesday Kids Class we painted a wonderful landscape scene. This is Maggie and Judd. This was Judd’s first lesson with me and he did great. He’s a cute guy and quite a talker and I think he will be a wonderful artist too!
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, barn, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary, weathervane on August 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Eastham Weathervane, acrylic on canvas panel, 12″x9″. On display at Blue Ridge Arts Council “Farms and Barns of Warren County” show beginning today.
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Oxbow Farms, Rockland, sunflower, sunflowers, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Oxbow Sunflowers is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x30″. (SOLD) It was painted for the show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council that opens this Thursday called “Farms and Barns of Warren County” to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the county. It will be available at the show this week.
This is painted combining two photos taken by the owner of this Rockland farm showing the brilliant large sunflowers that took over the landscape there this summer.
Posted in Travel, tagged Chester Dale exhibit, Modigliani, National Gallery of Art, Picasso, Travel on August 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
In July I spent a day at the National Gallery of Art enjoying the Chester Dale Exhibit. If you haven’t seen it, you must go. And as promised I am sharing with you some of the paintings that I saw there. I chose these three today because I re-watched an amazing film yesterday that involves these two painters. It’s called Modigliani. Andy Garcia plays the painter and does an excellent job.
Painter Amedeo Modigliani is famous for his portraits with the singularly recognizable elongated faces. And one of his greatest rivals is Picasso.
Here are two of the Modigliani’s and a Picasso from the Chester Dale exhibit for you to enjoy.
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| 1 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.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on August 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
One of the artists that we studied this week for Art Camp was Van Gogh. And yesterday we began our “Masterpiece” painting – a 16″x20″ Starry Night painting. It won’t be finished until after today’s class. But earlier in the week we also talked about Van Gogh and we painted a sunflower. Here is the first of our homage to Vincent! Great job guys!!!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, Jackson Pollack, pollack, Virginia Artist on August 11, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the famous painter that we discussed was Jackson Pollack. Then we went outside to immolate his style by painting with sticks to drip and splatter the canvas.
Of course, this was the most fun the kids have had painting so far. Here they are with their finished paintings and at work:
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, dancer, Degas, Small Town Life on August 10, 2011| 3 Comments »
Famous Painters Art Camp continued yesterday with a study of Degas. We painted a ballet dancer in his style.
Everyone did a great job on a very difficult subject.
Today we will continue with Van Gogh and maybe a little Jackson Pollack!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, Virginia Artist on August 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I have been so impressed with the young artists I have met this summer during the weeks of Art Camp that we have been having at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. We have been having loads of fun painting wonderful art.
Today another camp started – Famous Painters week. We started as always with the color wheel and making all these 
colors just using yellow, red and blue.
Then we painted like the first famous artist we are studying this week, Monet. And we only used those three colors -yellow, blue and red, plus white to create this entire painting.
What do you think? Didn’t they do a fantastic job!!!???
The Studio 