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Miss Inge

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, impressionism, Small Town Life, The Southerlands on July 21, 2012| 2 Comments »

One sunny day last week I took the paintings that the ladies at The Southerlands had completed in the last few months outside to give them a good coat of varnish. There were a BUNCH of them. I love going up there on Tuesday’s to work with these fun ladies. They always make me smile.

I guess that is why I was so shocked when I went a few weeks ago and learned that one of my favorite students, Miss Inge, had passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She had never painted before we started and she just loved what she created.

This is one of Inge’s last paintings. I will miss her smiling face and wonderful little Jewish sayings. She never let me squeeze out too much paint. “We shouldn’t waste”. I can hear her saying it now with a big, sweet smile on her face and twinkle in her eye.

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Painting the Mountains with a New Friend

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on July 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday morning my friend Linda and I went up to Dickey Ridge Visitor Center to do a little plein air painting. This was my set up and view to paint.

As often happens when I paint on location, curious onlookers will ask questions or comment on the painting. And yesterday I met a really nice family from India, now living in Dubai.

Their daughter, Kiara, was very interested in what I was doing so I showed her and even asked her to help. She took the brush and help put a little paint on the canvas.

Kiara’s parents watched. Her grandmother was there too. They had flown into Canada and were touring the U.S. for a month. What fun! I’m glad they stopped at Dickey Ridge while we were there painting.

And then they were gone. I had to finish the painting all by myself.

So Kiara, here it is. Our painting almost done.

Anyone interested in purchasing this or any painting can contact me at kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com . It was a great morning of painting outdoors. (And thanks Linda for snapping the shots of me and Kiara.)

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Uniforms and a Parade

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged cheerleader, majorette, Small Town Life, Uniforms on July 19, 2012| 2 Comments »

Yesterday evening in downtown Front Royal we had the Fireman’s Parade. This is a phenomenon that I have only seen in Virginia. It happens during their big fundraiser – a carnival. The parade drives through downtown with all the fire equipment from the county fire stations as well as some surrounding areas. The highlight of the parade is the queens and princesses. Every fire hall has a few from newborns to high school girls and they ride through the parade in their fanciest gowns waving to their adoring public.

Watching the parade caused me and my friends who took a break from art class to watch (the parade goes right by the arts council where we hold classes) to talk about parades we had marched in when we were in school. And that caused me to recall that I had run across my old majorette uniforms recently. My mom made these. The bright green one was my favorite. It is made of some shiny eyelash type fabric that I remember that she had such trouble sewing but all the majorettes loved them. And the dark green one is velvet!

And, of course, when football season ended I cheered during basketball season so there were even more uniforms. We were Patterson High School Eagles! Green and White Fight, Fight! 🙂

The memories, oh, the memories!

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Summer Meadow

Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Summer Meadow, oil on canvas, 5″x7″. Available for $75.

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Lincoln and the Cows

Posted in Dogs, Farm Animals on July 17, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Lincoln would love to get as close to the cows as he does to the fish but it ain’t happening.

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Lincoln and Friends

Posted in Dogs, Travel, tagged fish, Koi, Lincoln, Lincoln's Fish on July 15, 2012| 1 Comment »

Lincoln loves the Koi fish at the pond in front of the cabin. He will stand in the water waiting for them to come to him for 20 minutes. I have to call him out of the water or he would never leave his water friends.

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The “Masterpiece”

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Starry Night, Van Gogh on July 14, 2012| 1 Comment »

At the end of Art Camp week we always paint a “masterpiece”. This week it was Van Gogh’s Starry Night and we painted it on a 16″x20″ canvas. You can see how large it is with the young artists holding their finished work. What a fabulous job they all did. Don’t you love it.

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Day 3 and 4 of Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, barn, Cezanne, daily painter, impressionism, Matisse, post-impressionism on July 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Day 3 of Post-Impressionism Art Camp had us painting a copy of one of Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples. The young artists did a fabulous job with color mixing.

Then we did a quick miniature painting of a barn and even framed it.

Day 4 we spent almost the entire morning working on a copy of Matisse’s Red Fish. I love Matisse and while it was the hardest painting we have done in camp so far, the young artists did GREAT! For the final day of camp we are doing our “masterpiece”, an extra-large painting of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I’ll share it with you in the next post. Stay tuned!

This energetic group of young artists are doing splendid work!

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American billionaire is ’The Scream’ mystery buyer

Posted in daily painter on July 12, 2012| 1 Comment »

Take a look….

American billionaire is ’The Scream’ mystery buyer.

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Art Campers Paint

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on July 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp started this week with three enthusiastic painters, Isaac, Mia and Peyton. The first thing we painted was the color wheel while we learned about color mixing.