Posted in Animals, Serendipity, Travel, tagged American Museum of Natural History, New York City on October 1, 2015| Leave a Comment »
On my final day of vacation we went to the Natural History Museum. I was pleasantly surprised by all the art that I saw there. Of course, there was loads of interesting animals and artifacts but the backdrops of many of the displays included wonderful art. Here are just a small sampling of the fabulous things that we saw on Monday.
Posted in Animals, Art Class, tagged Blue Jay, kids art class on September 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The kids painted a Blue Jay at class yesterday, continuing their series of birds. (See the wren here.) Great work!
Posted in Animals, Landscape, The Studio/Classes, tagged garden, Landscape on September 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The Garden Chair
The Garden Chair, acrylic, 12″x12″.
This is the demonstration painting from the September Paint Party last week. You can see the paintings that everyone did here….and the original painting here.
Posted in Animals, Serendipity, tagged Calendar contest, Humane Society, pets, Rescue dogs on August 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
You know how much we love Rescue Pets! And we admire the wonderful people who work at our shelter to help pets find homes. Now here is a fun way you can help and show off your favorite pet at the same time. It’s time to submit entries for their upcoming calendar. (Remember that Lincoln was Mr. January in the 2015 calendar. You can see that here.)
Please enter your favorite pet photo in the calendar contest and help our shelter and the pets they are saving. They do GREAT work and can use our help. Here is the info and entry form. Just click here: 2016calendar flyer revised
Thanks!
Posted in Animals, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Bird Nest, Birdnest, Robin's Eggs on May 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Robin’s Eggs in Bird Nest
Today we are introducing a new feature – eBay auction for some original paintings. From time to time we will list art on eBay and it starts with today’s painting of this little Robin’s Egg Bird Nest. It’s an acrylic on 6″x6″ gallery wrap canvas. If we get this right you can click on this link or on the photo and go to eBay to bid (or buy) this original work of art. (UPDATE on June 6: This painting SOLD on eBay. Thanks!)
And thanks for looking!
Posted in Animals, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, duck, farm animals, flamingo on March 6, 2015| 1 Comment »
The kids got to choose from a couple of subjects this week in class. They did great! Flamingos and a Duck!!!
Kids Painting Class is every Wednesday at 4:15.
Posted in Animals, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, daily painter, farm animals, impressionism, Rooster, Shenandoah Valley Artist, Virginia Artist on January 26, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Completed Rooster
Rooster going to his new home
Rooster in original state
Rooster with Gesso
Yesterday Lynne and her very funny hubby, Michael, came by The Studio to pick up their Rooster-a commissioned piece she asked me to do. (You might remember that Lynne is my friend who went to the Pioneers and Primitives Retreat at Sassafras Farm with me last September. You can read more about that here. Lynne is the first one on the left on the second row from the bottom in the photo.)
She purchased this large cut-out of a rooster and wanted it painted. It was a little bit of a challenge as it had the grooves cut in it but in the end that made it really interesting.
I started by painting it with a coat of Gesso. Then it was a matter of laying in a variety of colors to make him have some depth. In the end, it turned out great. I liked it and I think Lynne and Michael were happy with the result.
Posted in Animals, Dogs, Paint Parties, Pet Portaits, tagged cat, Dogs, impressionism, Paint Party, pet portrait on January 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We had a great time with the “Paint Your Pet’s Portrait” Party yesterday. Great work!
Posted in Animals, Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, cat, impressionism, pet portrait on January 14, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I continued with the 3-Day Challenge on Facebook where I was asked to post three paintings a day for a week and challenge another artist to do the same. My three paintings yesterday were of pet portraits…one of my favorite subjects. One of the paintings I shared was of Bob Cat, one of Allen’s warehouse kitties. He is a handsome cat and got his name because he loves to sit on the seat of the Bobcat equipment there. If he was a human his job would be “heavy equipment operator”. 🙂
Painting pets is so great fun. You can do it too at our 3rd Saturday Paint Party coming up this Saturday at 3 pm at The Studio. Check out more information here.
Posted in Animals, Farm Animals, tagged donkey, goat, jack-ass, sheep on January 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »
“Mr. Cottswold”, oil, 6″x8″
I was challenged by a friend and fellow artist to participate in the 3-A-Day Challenge where I have to post 3 paintings per day for one week on my wall on Facebook. Today is Day 3 of the challenge. The first day I posted three paintings that were demonstration paintings from Paint Parties and yesterday I posted 3 paintings from the Farm Animal series that I did several years ago. The farm animals lit up the comment section…and they reminded me how much fun they were to do. Here are the three paintings I shared.
Not sure what I will be showing for my three for today but it has been fun going back and looking at some of the older paintings that I have done. Thanks Cindy for the challenge.
The Studio 