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Happy Halloween!

Posted in daily painter, tagged cat, daily painting, paper painting, Shenandoah Valley Artist, Virginia Artist on October 31, 2014| 1 Comment »

Black Cat, Paper Painting

Happy Halloween!

Today’s painting is a paper painting on cardboard. Black cat, 9×12, acrylic and paper.

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Great Work by Students

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Dogs, flowers, impressionism, Lilacs on October 30, 2014| Leave a Comment »

The Wednesday students are producing some terrific art. The young artists painted this adorable little pup. So cute!

And Pat continues to produce wonderful paintings like this copy of Mary Cassatt’s Lilacs. Great job Pat!!!

Pat’s Halloween Costume – A Bubble Bath Tub

And I just couldn’t resist posting this photo of Pat in her Halloween costume. She always comes up with the BEST ones. This year she is “Taking A Bath in the Tub”. So clever.

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Kids Paint Today

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, impressionism on October 29, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kids class is today at 4:15-5:15 at The Studio. Do you have a young painter ages 7-13 interested in joining us?

We have a great time. Last week we did this Halloween painting. Great job!

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Life is Better with Dogs!

Posted in Embroidery, tagged Dogs, embroidery on October 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

“Life is Better with Dogs” pillow

“Life is Better with Dogs!” is the saying on this little embroidered pillow that I just finished. And it is! Everyone who knows me knows how I love my dogs….well, all dogs, but mine in particular.

And my little Mamie has been sick the past few days so I haven’t been painting but I have been doing some needlework while I stay near her. So there is more embroidery to come.

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Students Art on Display

Posted in Art Class, tagged Shenandoah Confections, Student Art on October 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Several of my adult art class student’s art are on display at Shenandoah Confections & Tea Shop at 124 E. Main Street in Front Royal. Stop in for a cup of tea or a little piece of chocolate and take a look at their work.

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The Next Paint Party

Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, daily painter, Paint Party, Pumpkin Patch, Shenandoah Valley Artist, sunflowers, Virginia Artist on October 26, 2014| 2 Comments »

The 1st Saturday Paint Party is coming up on November 1st at 3 pm. Why don’t you join us? No experience is necessary.

This painting allows you to select what you would like to include. You can paint it with just sunflowers or with just the pumpkins….or go for it and include both! Anyone can do it and be successful. Just contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to sign up.

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Cat Loves a Box

Posted in Embroidery, tagged embroidery, Shenandoah Valley Artist on October 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

I embroidered this little piece for Allen’s birthday this past week. He loves his cats!

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Painted Diamonds Revisited

Posted in daily painter, tagged AT&T Park, Kansas City Royals, Kauffman Stadium, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Painted Diamonds, San Francisco Giants on October 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kauffman Stadium
Kansas City Royals

The World Series is underway with San Francisco and Kansas City.

San Francisco Giants
AT&T Park

The Painted Diamonds series of paintings is currently on display at the Community Center on Villa Avenue.

“Painted Diamonds – 30 Parks in 30 Weeks”, created a painting of every major league ball park, all thirty of them, between April and October 2013. The project was documented and published in a catalog as well as on Kelly’s blog. There was an exhibition of the entire series at the Blue Ridge Arts Council in Front Royal, VA, during World Series Week, October 23-31, 2013. Eleven of the original paintings were pre-sold during the Kickstarter project and several more have sold since the original show.

The paintings will remain on display at the Community Center until the end of October. The remaining original paintings as well as prints of every park are available for purchase.

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Embroidery Pillows

Posted in Embroidery, tagged embroidery on October 23, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Soft Kitty Pillow

Lincoln posing with the new Puppy Pillow

I made the Soft Kitty embroidery piece into a pillow this week….as well as another little dog embroidery piece.

I like how they turned out. Embroidery is so relaxing and a great hobby and the projects make great gifts!

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Exciting News – WE WON!!!!!

Posted in Serendipity, Small Town Life, tagged Entrepreneur Cafe, The Studio, The Studio-A Place for Learning on October 22, 2014| 3 Comments »

The Studio’s Table at the Entrepreneur Cafe

WE WON!!! Yesterday I invited you to an event called “Entrepreneur Cafe” that our Chamber of Commerce hosts that gives 5 selected businesses an opportunity to vie for a prize package that included $500 cash and $1000 newspaper advertising budget. I am so excited that our project – to add audio-visual equipment to The Studio- was the one selected. Now I can’t wait to get it set up so we can watch instructional DVDs while creating. Yeah!!!

And even better than all of that, I got to tell a room full of people just what it is we do at The Studio. Everyone knows that we have art classes (because that is what I do) but most people have no idea that we offer so much more like embroidery, collage, photography, bookbinding, quilting, sewing, knitting, crochet, fabric arts, social media, kids crafts, Pinterest picks, air dry pottery, cookie decorating, cupcake decorations, gingerbread houses, and more, more, more!!!!! Did you know that?

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