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Final Day of Art Camp

Posted in Art Class, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Our final painting for Art Camp was a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. He did a couple of them…most people only recognize the one.

Here are the kids working on theirs. We got so busy finalizing everything and framing their works for the week that I forgot to take a photo of the final painting. Maybe when the show goes up at the Community Center featuring their works I can get one then. 😦

All in all, we had a fabulous summer of painting and discovered the talent of many young painters in our community!

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Art Camp – Matisse

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Over the ages it has been a common practice for artists to copy famous painters work in order to learn technique, style, and color mixing. Degas, Monet, Renoir, and many of the famous names you will recognize applied and received copiers permission to copy paintings in the Louvre.

Following in their footsteps, our Art Campers are learning about a variety of artists this week by copying famous paintings. They completed their Matisse painting. They turned out great.

Today we will finish up art camp by finishing our Picassos and our Van Goghs! Good job everyone.

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Farms & Barns Show at BRAC

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The Farms and Barns Show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council opened last night with a good crowd coming in to see it.

Here is my Oxbow Sunflowers along with my four Thursday young artists version of the same scene. It looks great hanging all together.

I also have a display of Farm Animals hanging for this show. They look pretty good altogether like this.

Stop by BRAC to see these and all the other nice paintings of Warren County.

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34 Trees, 2 Private Students and a New Guy in Class!

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on August 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Last week my young artists at Angel’s Korner began painting a larger painting (11″x14″). They made nice progress.

Yesterday they completed their paintings and didn’t they do a really nice job??!!

After leaving my 34 young artists I met with Jacob and Kelsey, my private students from West Virginia who come here to make beautiful art. Their paintings were really great!

Then at regular Wednesday Kids Class we painted a wonderful landscape scene. This is Maggie and Judd. This was Judd’s first lesson with me and he did great. He’s a cute guy and quite a talker and I think he will be a wonderful artist too!

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Degas’ Dancer

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, dancer, Degas, Small Town Life on August 10, 2011| 3 Comments »

Famous Painters Art Camp continued yesterday with a study of Degas. We painted a ballet dancer in his style.

Everyone did a great job on a very difficult subject.

Today we will continue with Van Gogh and maybe a little Jackson Pollack!

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Matisse Discovered

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Matisse, Virginia Artist on August 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Several weeks ago as I was preparing for Modern Art Camp for the kids I decided I needed to attempt a copy of a Matisse painting since that’s what we would be doing for camp. The one on the left, Lady in a Purple Dress, is the one I did. My Wednesday Young Artists gave it a go too. Charlee is shown her with her beautiful version.

And this is Maggie with her excellent version. Great job girls. It was fun painting in a little different style and learning more about Matisse.

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26 Young Artists x 4 Poppies = 104 Poppies

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, poppies, Small Town Life on July 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday afternoon I worked with 26 young artists at Angel’s Korner and we painted poppies….lots and lots of poppies.

The students range in ages from 5 -12. They painted beautiful orange-red flowers. Good job everyone!

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Southerlands Paints Poppies

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago, these lovely painters at the Southerlands created beautiful poppy paintings. Good job girls!

I was so busy posting art camp photos that I didn’t get them onto the blog. Here they are!

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Young Artist paint the Farm Gate

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, Farm Gate, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia, Virginia Artist on June 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

These young artist did a great job painting the Farm Gate a few weeks ago.

This is just an example of the kinds of paintings that the kids will do in Summer Art Camp. The first weeklong camp will begin June 27th and is for students ages 7 – 12. If you have a budding artist, please contact me for more information. There is still a couple of spaces left for that week. There are five weeks to choose from so if that week doesn’t work for you, just email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com and I can send you the full schedule.

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