Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged collage, Demonstration painting, Relay for Life on November 17, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Relay for Life Sample Painting
Last night I was invited by the organizers of the “Relay for Life” committee to do a demonstration painting for their kick-off meeting. Their theme this year is “Paint Your World Purple”. So I did a demo of what our mountains would look like purple. Here is the sample painting I did for them. After the demo we invited people to paint with paper and create an inspirational piece to take with them. Here are some of the wonderful collages they created. 
Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged dog, Dogs on November 5, 2015| 1 Comment »
Gretchen with Lincoln and Jed
Lucky on the stoop at The Studio
Hannah and Hershey
Seems that it was Dog Day at The Studio yesterday. I took my boys to work for the morning art class and of course, they were all over everyone. Gretchen made the mistake of sitting down on the floor so Lincoln tried to show her that he is really a lap dog.
Then Lucky came to bring his “sister” to kids class. Sometimes he likes to walk her to class and pick her up. I guess just to be sure she’s safe. With a face like that he does scare off a few folks but he really is just a big sugar lump!
And then finally for the evening adult class Hannah brought her sweet little Hershey to class. She enjoyed all the treats and loving she got from everyone there.
All in all a really good dog day at The Studio!
Posted in daily painter, Landscape, tagged golf, Shenandoah Valley Golf Course on October 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Shenandoah Valley Golf Course View I
Shenandoah Valley Golf Course View II
For Allen’s Birthday yesterday, I gave him two little paintings of Shenandoah Valley Golf Course. He spends lots of time there playing golf so I thought he might like them.
They are acrylic on canvas measuring 6″x12″.
Posted in Crochet, daily painter, tagged cat basket, Cat bec, cat bowl, Crochet on October 16, 2015| Leave a Comment »
When the weather cools I get in the mood to crochet. So I cleaned out a bag of yarn scraps and decided to make a few things that I can donate to the Animal Shelter. These are “Cat Bowls”. LOL At least I hope that cats might like to lay in these little bowls/baskets. And since I didn’t have a cat to try it out I took a photo with my sock dog. You get the idea.
Posted in daily painter, Landscape, tagged tree on October 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Here’s another fall tree from a different perspective. Acrylic on hardboard.
Posted in daily painter, tagged Fall, tree on October 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Taking a look from a different perspective of this fall tree. It3done with acrylic on canvas measuring 14″x7″.
Posted in daily painter, Flowers, Travel, tagged Van Gogh, Van Gogh flowers on October 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Van Gogh’s Irises
Van Gogh’s Oleanders
Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
Here is my finished version of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers from our Famous Painters Paint Party series last week.
The others are Van Gogh’s floral paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from my visit last week.
Enjoy!
Posted in daily painter, Landscape, tagged acrylic, American flag, barn, Barn with Flag, Farm, flag, Landscape on October 3, 2015| Leave a Comment »
While we were painting the Barn with Flag a few months ago at Paint Parties (see those here and here) I started working on this one as well. I finally had some time at Open Studio yesterday to wrap it up.
I like the image of old barns with our flag hanging proudly.
All-American Barn, acrylic, 9″x12″, available for sale.
Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, Small Town Life, tagged Award, Best of Winners, Northern Virginia Daily on September 29, 2015| Leave a Comment »
I returned from my short vacation to NYC to find the Best of Winners announced. Many thanks to everyone who voted for me this year! I am so thrilled to be named “Best Local Artist” for 2015. 
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
(Tomorrow I will share more photos from the wonderful museums I visited while on vacation. So much good stuff to share.)
Posted in daily painter, tagged Abstract on September 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Sophia learned to work with a palette knife at her lesson yesterday. She turned out a really cool painting!
The Studio 