Posted in Animals, Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged Fin, Sander's Ranch, sheep on April 21, 2017| Leave a Comment »
On Monday I visited with friends at the Battlefield Equestrian Center (Sander’s Ranch) and met loads of beautiful animals. Of course, I took many reference photos because the kids in my art classes LOVE to paint animals. So at this week’s classes we painted Finn. What a handsome guy! Here are the paintings that the kids did along with my demo piece and more photos of Finn and Lucky.
Posted in Dogs, Farm Animals, Paint Party, Pet Portaits, tagged pets on February 20, 2017| Leave a Comment »
I had a really fun Paint Party yesterday with a wonderful group of ladies that come out from Northern Virginia to paint every few months. They are all delightful and we have lots of laughs as we paint beautiful pets. Great work ladies. Can’t wait till April.
Posted in Farm Animals, Flowers, Workshop/Retreat, tagged mixed media, paper, paper painting on September 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We had a “Painting with Paper” class at The Studio yesterday and so many people created beautiful art. We had flowers and fish and elephants and buffaloes and foxes and roosters and more! What a fun day.
Denise Kupiszewski from The Mud Peddler in Shepherdstown came to teach us this fun form of art. And the good news is she agreed to come back next month so if you missed out this time you still have an opportunity. Keep an eye out on The Studio calendar for the next class as well as other great classes coming up. Click here for the schedule.
Posted in Animals, Dogs, Farm Animals, Paint Party, Pet Portaits, tagged Bridal Shower, Paint Party, Pet Portraits on August 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »
What a fun way to celebrate such a special event with friends…especially when many of these friends work at the Conservation Research Center here in Front Royal and they decide to paint Pet Portraits. It was perfect. And everyone laughed and enjoyed themselves so much as we celebrated the bride. Then they left with beautiful paintings of their pets (or favorite animals because I am pretty sure that the one lady doesn’t keep a Bongo in her backyard)!
Posted in Farm Animals, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Alpacca, lamb, Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, sheep on May 9, 2016| 1 Comment »
I spent Mother’s Day with one of my best friends, Deb, at the Maryland Sheep &Wool Festival outside of Frederick, Maryland. Deb spins wool into yarn as well as dyes her own wool so it was fascinating to see the whole thing from her perspective. There was loads of beautiful yarn for purchase as well as lots of other beautiful items. I found several new things I would like to learn to do. 🙂
But best of all I got lots of good reference photos for painting. And I got to hold a one day old lamb….her mother rejected her…not the best mother on Mother’s Day…but the people who own her were bottle feeding her and they have lots of sheep and know just what to do. They make lovely blankets and throws from their wool. Check them out here.
Posted in Animals, Commissions, Farm Animals, tagged donkey, mule on March 19, 2016| Leave a Comment »
Clarence is a painting I did several years ago. (See it here.) He belongs to a friend and when she posted a photo of him on Facebook I asked her if I could paint from her photo. I love the way he looks. Well so does someone else because I was asked to paint him again. This Clarence (#2) now lives in New Jersey.
Posted in Farm Animals, Flowers, Landscape, tagged scarecrow on March 8, 2016| 1 Comment »
I had a little time to go back and develop my scarecrow a little more after the Kid’s Class last week. It was a fun one!
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Farm Animals, Landscape, tagged daisy, daisy field, scarecrows on March 3, 2016| Leave a Comment »
The kids painted summer time scarecrows yesterday in a lovely field of daisies. Great work kids!
Posted in Farm Animals, Private Lesson, tagged farm animals, pig on September 5, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Sophia working on Pig painting
Sophia painted the cutest little pig at her lesson this week. Great job.
If you are interested in a private painting lesson just contact Kelly at kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com .
Posted in Farm Animals, Paint Party, tagged barn, Hydrangea on July 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Hydrangea Barn
I did another version of the barn as a sample for a Paint Party today. The host wanted hydrangeas included.
The Studio 