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Janice is a Winner!

Posted in Art Class, Serendipity on August 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday Jan, one of my Wednesday morning art students, shared with me her success!

Great job Jan….a blue ribbon from this year’s fair. Good work!

Commission of View from Harrisonburg

Posted in Commissions, Landscape, tagged daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

I recently received a commission to paint a scene from Harrisonburg with the mountains in the background. It is a graduation gift. It took a little longer than normal because it’s a larger painting, 18″x24″ acrylic on canvas.

You can see the progress in these photos:

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The Studio Calendar

Posted in daily painter, tagged The Studio on August 19, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Since The Studio opened on August 1st we have had all sorts of exciting and creative classes from painting to cupcake decorating to yard art totem making to social media seminars and much more. It’s hard to believe we are packing so much fun into that little building but we are.

So don’t miss out. Take a look at the calendar for the rest of this month and beyond and you will see we have even more great workshops and classes planned. Coming up is Intro to Digital Photography and Bookbinding and Embroidery and Marketing and……

Take a look by clicking here.

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Learn at Sassafras Farm

Posted in Workshop/Retreat, tagged Chickens in the Road, Primitives & Pioneers Retreat, Suzanne McMinn on August 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »

“Chickens in the Road”
photo by Suzanne McMinn

It’s time to register now to go learn at the Chickens in the Road Farm! I will be teaching again with my friend Suzanne McMinn at Sassafras Farm in West Virginia in September and October. Here is the info that Suzanne just posted on her blog: Chickens in the Road

Primitives & Pioneers Retreat — Canning, Cooking, Arts and Crafts!
September 13 – September 14, 2014 OR October 11 – October 12, 2014

This retreat will span two days, offered in both September and October, taking you from the kitchen, to the woods, and to the art easel with workshops including “Oh, Pioneer”–including corn cob jelly, hand-dipped tapers, homemade potpourri, rustic breads, fresh lard, and burnt sugar cake, along with “Let’s Paint Primitive”–an awesome art experience in which you’ll be led step-by-step to create two works of art, one on canvas and one on a old-fashioned bucket. (No prior experience required!) Three meals per day are included along with all your supplies, materials, and take-home projects. All workshops and activities will take place at Sassafras Farm in Roane County, West Virginia. Click here for information on registration.

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Pet Portraits

Posted in Pet Portaits, tagged Pet Portraits on August 17, 2014| 2 Comments »

What fun we had yesterday painting Pet Portraits. Here are some of the wonderful paintings.

Great job everyone!!!

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The Horse Portrait

Posted in Animals, Farm Animals, Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, farm animals, horse, pet portrait on August 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago a gentleman came by The Studio asking about portraits. He had a pretty faint photo of a horse that belongs to his daughter and he wanted it done for her birthday. This is the horse. I do quite a few dog portraits, even some cats but very seldom do I get to do a horse.

They were very happy with the results.

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Cupcake Critters

Posted in daily painter, tagged Cupcake Critters, cupcake decorating on August 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Cupcake Decorating 2 Yesterday I had a chance to help with the “Cupcake Critters” decorating class at The Studio. What fun! We made frogs and horses and lions and dogs and Angry Birds and more.

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Cupcake Critters by Ruth Wahl

The kids had fun making cupcakes to take home for dessert…and maybe they ate a little icing along the way. 🙂

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Summer Art Camp Ends with Matisse

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Henri Matisse, impressionism on August 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp Aug 12 Summer Art Camp wrapped up yesterday with ten young painters, ages 5-7, recreating the wonderful Matisse painting – Interior with a Dog (although a couple of them made them into cats). Great job!

We have had a wonderful summer of Art Camp Painters and will be announcing soon some dates for weekend workshops and a holiday camp. We hope to see you all there!

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Art Campers & Van Gogh

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, impressionism, The Studio, The Studio-A Place for Learning, Vincent Van Gogh on August 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Campers & Van Gogh

Art Campers Take a Break

My youngest group of Art Campers, ages 5-7, painted a wonderful copy of “Van Gogh’s Sprig of Almond” and what an amazing job they did!

Good work everyone. And many thanks to my student Logan who came in to work as my assistant with this young group. She was terrific at everything from mixing paint to opening water bottles at break! 🙂

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Jon’s Abstract

Posted in Abstract, Art Camp, Art Class, tagged Abstract, acrylic on August 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Jon at Adult Class Last week Jon attended Art Camp.

His grandmother takes my Wednesday Adult Art Class so Jon stayed after Camp on Wednesday and painted this great work of art. Don’t you love it!!!! Great job Jon.

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