Posted in Animals, Farm Animals, Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, farm animals, horse, pet portrait on August 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago a gentleman came by The Studio asking about portraits. He had a pretty faint photo of a horse that belongs to his daughter and he wanted it done for her birthday. This is the horse. I do quite a few dog portraits, even some cats but very seldom do I get to do a horse.
They were very happy with the results.
Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, duck, farm animals, impressionism on May 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago a friend posted a photo of her duck, Jase, on Facebook. I immediately asked her if we could paint the photo in our kids class and she gave us permission.
The kids did a great job painting Jase’s portrait. Don’t you love it??? Good job everyone. I’ll bet Jase would like them.
Posted in Farm Animals, Plein Air, tagged Plein Air, Sassafras Farm, sheep on May 7, 2014| 1 Comment »
This is the second plein air painting that I worked on while at Sassafras Farm a few weekends ago. (See the first one here.) I still have a little more to add but it’s almost done. Now that the weather is beginning to cooperate I plan to get outside to paint more.
Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, sheep on April 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The kids class painted a nice little farm landscape with sheep yesterday. They did a terrific job with this painting. Keep up the good work!
Posted in Animals, daily painter, Farm Animals, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Llama, Virginia Artist on September 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Llama painting with reference photo
A few weekends ago I took an art workshop in Staunton at the Beverley Street Studio School. What a neat place! The workshop was all about painting animals. So, of course, the week before I went to the workshop I took photos of animals I have been wanting to paint — like a llama. I have some friends with all kinds of animals and they allowed me to come and take pictures. This Llama, I think his name is Tony, was a real character. He kept photo-bombing every time I tried to take a photo of the other llamas that were there, especially the baby llama. He and the other two adults did not want me to photo the baby. So long story short, I got lots of cool photos of Tony but no good ones of the other three. Here is the first painting of Tony. It’s a 6″x8″ oil on canvas. It is available at Delilah’s or by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com
Posted in Farm Animals, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, goat, goats, impressionism, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
George’s Goat, oil on canvas, 8″x6″, available for $135. After taking the workshop last weekend on “Painting Animals” it reminded me that I need to paint more animals for the Farm Animal series that I did several years ago. (You can see more about it here.) Many of these have sold so I need to come up with some more of these cute faces to add to the series. Stay tuned….next, a Llama!
Goat Reference Photo
Posted in Animals, Farm Animals, Small Town Life, Travel, tagged Llama, photography, reference photos, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on August 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
There are very few days that I don’t actually paint. Yesterday was one of them. I spent the afternoon riding around the county taking photos of animals for an upcoming workshop that I will be attending on “Painting Animals”. I’m very excited to be taking the workshop. It’s my birthday do-over since I was sick on my birthday this year. A good do-over, huh?!
These are some of the photos that I got yesterday. A good friend was kind enough to let me come to his place and get some Llama shots. I have been wanting to paint one so here is my chance. Just look at that FACE!!!
Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, belted galloway, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Oreo cow, Virginia Artist on March 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The kids painted a nice landscape this week with a Belted Galloway. It’s from a photo I took when in Newport a few years ago. I love these Oreo cows. They looks so cool. 
Good job kids with your paintings!
Here is my painting (right) along with the reference photo on the left. I swear these cows don’t even look real with their funny coloring!
Posted in Farm Animals, Travel, tagged chickens, Chickens in the Road, hay ride, Sassafras Farm, West Virginia on September 20, 2012| 1 Comment »
Retreat Teachers
Many people enjoyed the hay ride, especially the kids.
It was a fabulous weekend of new friends, good food, and creativity and learning. I can’t wait til next year. And to read more about the Retreat and life at Sassafras Farm check out www.chickensintheroad.com .
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!
The Studio 