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Warhol Eagle ….and Flamingo?

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, Eagle, flamingo, Warhol on August 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The final day of the final week of Art Camp this summer saw us finishing our Warhol Pop Art paintings. Half of the group painted the Warhol Eagle and the other half painted a flamingo in the pop art style of Warhol.

We had a fabulous week of painting. And the favorite part of every art camp week for the kids is the Artist Trading Cards.

Each young artist paints a small painting, the size of a trading card, and then exchanges them with their fellow artists. It’s a nice memento of their week with new friends.

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Final Week of Art Camp Begins

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The final week of Art Camp started yesterday with a fine group of young painters. And as usual, we started by painting a color wheel. As I told the ones who have painted with me before and already painted a color wheel, you can never paint enough of them. I’ll bet I’ve painted several hundred over the last few years and learn something every time I paint one.

The first painting we did was a landscape in an impressionistic style. And didn’t everyone do a fantastic job? Just wait to see what we do tomorrow!

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Lots of Artists!

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, daily painter, Farm Animals, tagged Abstract, abstract art, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on August 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »

My Wednesday Adult Class was jealous that I had only posted my young artist’s paintings recently so they posed for me last night. Here’s Pat with her terrific painting of Jack and Pokey. And Shelly is hiding behind the lovely door painting that she is working on this week. Nice job ladies.

And here are the young artists with their finished Jackson Pollack inspired drip painting. Excellent!

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Road to the Cabin

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, art lessons, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 24, 2012| 1 Comment »

This is a painting that I have done four times in the past few weeks. It is a good painting for art lessons. It works for young painters as well as more experienced ones.

You can see here that Rachel painted it recently. And so did Jacob.

He’s my youngest student. He did a great job with his painting too.

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Rachel’s First Oil Painting

Posted in Art Class, tagged art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

This is Rachel. Her grandparents live in Front Royal and when she visits she often takes an art lesson with me. Yesterday we painted together and she worked in oil for the first time. What a terrific job Rachel. Can’t wait until we paint together again!

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Miss Inge

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, impressionism, Small Town Life, The Southerlands on July 21, 2012| 2 Comments »

One sunny day last week I took the paintings that the ladies at The Southerlands had completed in the last few months outside to give them a good coat of varnish. There were a BUNCH of them. I love going up there on Tuesday’s to work with these fun ladies. They always make me smile.

I guess that is why I was so shocked when I went a few weeks ago and learned that one of my favorite students, Miss Inge, had passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She had never painted before we started and she just loved what she created.

This is one of Inge’s last paintings. I will miss her smiling face and wonderful little Jewish sayings. She never let me squeeze out too much paint. “We shouldn’t waste”. I can hear her saying it now with a big, sweet smile on her face and twinkle in her eye.

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The “Masterpiece”

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Starry Night, Van Gogh on July 14, 2012| 1 Comment »

At the end of Art Camp week we always paint a “masterpiece”. This week it was Van Gogh’s Starry Night and we painted it on a 16″x20″ canvas. You can see how large it is with the young artists holding their finished work. What a fabulous job they all did. Don’t you love it.

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Jacob and Buffy

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, Golden Retriever, impressionism, pet portrait, Rescue dogs, Virginia Artist on June 26, 2012| 1 Comment »

This is Jacob. He is one of my private students. He’s 6.

A few weeks ago I asked him what he wanted to paint next and he said Buffy. Buffy is his old golden retriever. Buffy is almost twice as old as Jacob and you can tell he loves her.

So we painted Buffy. It took two lessons and he did a terrific job. I love helping young artists paint their pets.

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Olivia, Flags and Art Camp!

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, American flag, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, flag, flags, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Washington Monument on June 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Olivia paints flags

Olivia did a terrific job painting the flags that circle the Washington Monument. It looks fabulous!We will painting things like this at Art Camp. Don’t forget to sign up your young artist ages 7-13. The first week begins next week! See more here.

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