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A Little Thank You Gift

Posted in daily painter, Landscape, tagged Beach, Beach Grass on April 20, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Just painted this little 5″x7″ Beach Scene as a thank you gift for someone who did us a really big favor recently. Hope she likes it.

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Little Fruit Commission

Posted in Commissions, tagged acrylic, apple, cherry, fruit, miniature on April 19, 2015| Leave a Comment »

I am working on a commission of a series of small fruit paintings.Here are the first ones. I showed you the cherries earlier this week and the change in background color. (See it here.)

Now here they are almost finished along with the two apple paintings. Each is 5″x7″, acrylic on canvas. Now I need to work on the two pear and two grape paintings. Then I will put the final touches on all of them. Look for them soon!

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Super Fun Birthday Paint Party!

Posted in Paint Party, tagged Birthday Paint Party, Hydrangea, Paint Party on April 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Emily’s Birthday Paint Party

We had a wonderful group of ladies celebrating a birthday last night at The Studio. Family and friends painting together…how much fun is that?!

Learn more about Paint Parties here.

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Changing Cherries

Posted in daily painter, tagged cherry, fruit on April 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Sometimes when I paint I have to make a change. I started these little cherry paintings with a darker background and then changed it to lighten up the top part of the background. Often adjustments need to be made after you start. The trick is being able to see what changes are needed…and that just comes with practice.

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Kids Paint Green Grapes

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, grapes on April 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Kids Paint Grapes

The kids painted green grapes at class yesterday at The Studio. Fabulous!

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Happy Birthday Leonardo!

Posted in Little Known Facts, tagged Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci on April 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »

da Vinci’s Last Supper, 181″x 346″, tempera, 1494-1498

On this day in 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born. He is often considered the most diversely talented person who ever lived. He was a painter, sculptor, writer, architect, musician, engineer, cartographer, inventor, and more.

Study Sheet with Cats, Dragons and other animals, Leonardo da Vinci

“His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination”. (from Wikipedia)

Learn more about Leonardo da Vinci here and here. And see his works here.

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2015 Summer Art Camp Schedule Released

Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, Summer art camp on April 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Art Campers Take a Break

Art Campers Paint Entrance to National Park

Art Camp Week 1
copy of Renoir’s Girl with Watering Can

Summer Art Camp is so much fun! And now the schedule is out for this summer. If you have a young person, ages 5-18, we have something exciting for them to do this summer at The Studio.

Be sure to check out the flyer and sign up now. (Flyer for Kids Summer Art Camp Final 2015)

These camp sessions are limited in size. Learn more about and see the schedule here.

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The Photo Bomber

Posted in Commissions, Pet Portaits, tagged Lab, Low water bridge, pet portrait on April 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Reference Photo

I just completed this commission that was mailed off to Pennsylvania this week. The person ordering the work had a very specific composition in mind for this pet portrait, as you can see here. For me, it looks like the dog is photo bombing the landscape scene. 🙂

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April’s Paint Party and Deb’s First

Posted in Art Class, Paint Party, tagged Blue Bells, Paint Party on April 11, 2015| Leave a Comment »

April’s Paint Party

I love sharing photos of paintings done by people who come to the Paint Parties as well as students in my art classes. Here is the group from April’s 1st Saturday Paint Party. They did a great job on their flowers!

Deb’s First Painting

And this is Deb, a new art student. This is her first painting. Terrific, huh?!

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Hannah’s Crocheted Vest!

Posted in Crochet, tagged Crochet, crochet vest on April 10, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Hannah Front of Vest

Vest Back View

Vest Side View

Several weeks ago I shared a couple of crochet vests that I had made. Since I was on such a roll I decided to try another one and it started out great. But about a little over half way through I could tell that the pattern sizing was off. It was much smaller than I needed but instead of ripping it out I decided to finish it and give it to someone tall and skinny. LOL

I happen to have a young student in my art class that I thought it would be cute on and asked her if she liked the “retro” look and when she said yes I was glad. So here’s Hannah wearing “HER” new vest. Doesn’t she look cute?! I will have to try it again for myself.

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