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Sam and Shadow

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, impressionism on July 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

There has been so many great photos of students with their art to post lately that I didn’t want to forget to get this one in. Sam just joined my class about a month ago. She is a wonderful young artist and she just completed this beautiful painting of her dog Shadow who just turned one! Great job Sam! Keep up the good work.

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The Wednesday Night Girls!

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, daily painter, Virginia Artist on July 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Pat

Shelly

Jean

The Wednesday Night Art Class always has a great time. These “girls” have been my longest running art students. Maybe because we have so much fun together. Last night they surprised me with a birthday party. (My birthday was Tuesday, the same as Jed’s. Read here.) Thanks Shelly, Pat and Jean. Even with all the eating, singing and laughing, we still got around to doing some painting. Thanks again!

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Logan’s Sock Monkey

Posted in Animals, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, monkey, sock monkey, Virginia Artist on June 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

After having the Art Camp kids all week it was a nice break to only have one young artist in the regular class this week. (Some of my regulars were in art camp.) So she chose a sock monkey to paint. And a really great job she did on him!!!!

Way to go Logan. Keep up the great work!

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Ballots are Ready!

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Serendipity, Small Town Life on June 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The end of last month I wrote that we had been nominated in the Northern Virginia Daily’s “Best of” Awards. Read about it here. The ballots are out. It was printed in yesterday’s paper or you can vote online at www.nvdaily.com . Just click on the right side on “Best of” Front Royal/Warren County. We are nominated in categories # 2, 133, 199, and 216. Please vote! Thanks so much for the support!

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Ethan and Stinkin’ Lincoln

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait on June 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Ethan and Lincoln

Because of the really stormy weather we had yesterday I only had one young artist come to class yesterday. When this happens I let them choose what they want to paint from the paintings they may have missed in previous classes. Ethan chose to paint Lincoln. And what a great job you did Ethan! Wonderful. You can see what the other artists did with this painting last year by clicking here.

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Always Proud of My Students

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley on June 13, 2013| 2 Comments »

Pat

Gretchen

Jan

Kathy

I am always so proud of my art students and love sharing their work with you. I often post photos of the kids paintings and forget to take photos of the adults as they finish their paintings. But yesterday it seems that everyone was finishing paintings at the same time so I got some great shots. These are all Wednesday morning or evening students. Keep it up girls. Great job by all!!!

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Acrylics for Painted Diamonds

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Allen Montague Fine Non-toxic Acrylics, art lessons, Atelier Interactive Artists' Acrylic, daily painter, Fundamentals Artist Acrylic, Master's Touch Acrylic, SoHo Urban Acrylic, Virginia Artist, Winsor & Newton Artists' Acrylic on June 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Acrylic Paints

I am using acrylic paints for the baseball parks that I am doing for the Kickstarter project. I chose acrylic for a couple of reasons. First, they dry quickly which makes it easier to put in the details I need in the background scenery. And second, because acrylic dries quicker than oils I can store these paintings as I work on them. Thirty 18″ x 24″ canvas are not easy to store so being able to stack them really helps. 🙂

As you can see from the photo there is quite a few different brands. As I tell my students in art class, every painter has to explore different brands and colors and find their own favorites. These are some of mine. Here are the acrylics I am using:

Winsor & Newton Artists’ Acrylic: Graphite Grey, Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow Light, Yellow Ochre, Buff Titanium, Naphthol Red Medium, Permanent Sap Green

Master’s Touch Acrylic: Pale Blue, Warm Grey, Flesh Yellow

Atelier Interactive Artists’ Acrylic: French Ultramarine Blue, Burnt Umber

Fundamentals Artist Acrylic: Azo Red Deep, Red Ochre, Crimson

SoHo Urban Acrylic: Burnt Sienna

Allen Montague Fine Non-toxic Acrylics: St. Johns Blue

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Great Student Art

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting on June 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We had a good evening at art class. The kids painted a bird nest in a tree. Not the easiest of subject matter and they did a wonderful job.

And Luzia, one of my newest students in Thursday class, completed just her second painting – these wonderful parrots. Great job!

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Kids and Abstract Florals

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, flowers on June 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We try various styles of art in our classes. The kids are open to trying it all. Here are the representational abstract floral that we did some time back. Very imaginative and striking! Good job!

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Poppies, Poppies, Poppies

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, poppies, poppy, Virginia Artist on May 31, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The young artists did a fabulous job on their poppy paintings yesterday. We had a little “test” to be sure they are remembering some of the things I tell them in class and they all did a terrific job. I so glad that what I teach is sticking with them. Great job everyone!!!