Stone Wall with Picket Gate is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x30″ and is available for $325.
Have a safe Memorial Day!
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, pickett fence, Shenandoah Valley, Stone Fence, stone wall, Virginia, Virginia Artist on May 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, oil painting, Quince, still life, Virginia Artist on May 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
White Quince is an oil on canvas measuring 20″x16″ and is available for $295.
I love this time of the year when everything is blooming. There are so many subjects for painting. I generally take lots of photos during April and May so that I have subject matter for painting throughout the year. Building a reference file is important if you paint everyday.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, oil painting, painting, Rooster, Virginia Artist on May 26, 2010| 1 Comment »
Mean Rooster III is an oil on canvas panel measuring 8″x6″ and is available for $125.
Mean Rooster belonged to Suzanne McMinn of Chickens in the Road.com fame. If you haven’t checked out her blog yet take a look to the left at Sites of Interest and you will see a link to her blog. It’s terrific.
Mean Rooster chased her around the yard and she had to fend him off with a broom!
Posted in daily painter, tagged baby sheep, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, lamb, Landscape, oil painting, painting, sheep, Virginia Artist on May 25, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painting, impressionism, Virginia Artist on May 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Every Wednesday at 4:15 p.m. you can find me at the Blue Ridge Arts Council with my young students working on a painting. This is what Isabella (left) and Brooke painted last Wednesday.
Didn’t they do a great job?
If you have a young student (ages 8-11) interested in art, contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com and let’s get them started painting!
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 3rd Thursday Art Walk, Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Walk, daily painter, Small Town Life on May 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Art Walk last night was great fun. Many different people helped to paint the two canvases that I had down at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. There were three other locations where people were painting as well.
Here are some of the artist hard at work!!! 
Be sure to mark your calendar for the 3rd Thursday in June and come down and join us on Main Street.
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 3rd Thursday Art Walk, Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, art lessons, Art Walk, daily painter, daily painting, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on May 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Join us from 5-8 p.m. tonight for the 3rd Thursday Art Walk. I will be painting at the Blue Ridge Arts Council and I invite you to join me. Tonight’s theme is “Minds Wide Open” and we will be working on abstract pieces…and you can join in. I’ll have all the supplies. You just come ready to paint!!!
And abstract doesn’t always mean non-representational. As you can see here there is a representational element to abstract art as well. Come on down and see more.
Posted in daily painter, tagged 3rd Thursday Art Walk, Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, art lessons, Art Walk, daily painter, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia, Virginia Artist on May 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Tomorrow is the 3rd Thursday Art Walk. Each 3rd Thursday in downtown Front Royal many shops extend their hours until 8 p.m. and from 5-8 p.m. artists demonstrate at several locations. Tomorrow not only will they demonstrate but they will encourage viewers to paint as well.
The theme for tomorrow’s art walk is “Minds Wide Open”, the same theme as my current show at the arts council. Marlene Kline and I will be at BRAC, 305 East Main Street, demonstrating and hopefully helping you paint an abstract work of art.
Please join us and try your hand at painting. We’d love to see you there.
Shown here today are some of the abstract works in the current show that Marlene and I have on display at BRAC.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Day Lilies, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on May 18, 2010| 1 Comment »
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Festival, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries, Wine Festival on May 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Saturday was a beautiful day for a festival and we had a great one downtown Front Royal. The Wine & Craft Festival brought lots of people to Main Street and many stopped by to see us at Delilah’s.

And I worked on several paintings that day. I even had a couple of children who helped paint a little.
I used to get really nervous painting in front of others but now that I have done it so often it doesn’t bother me. I enjoy it in fact. People generally have interesting questions about painting and are very encouraging.
We had a drawing for those who came into Delilah’s to register and this was our winner. Sheron Nicodemus from Richmond was the lucky one and this was the painting she selected. I got to spend a few minutes chatting with Sheron and she was just delightful. Congratulations!
(Special thanks to Sandy Patterson for taking the photos of me painting and with Sheron.)