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Around Williamsburg

Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, Travel, tagged sculpture, Williamsburg on May 16, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Still taking reference photos while on my little vacation. Yesterday we arrived in Williamsburg and had a chance to catch a few shots. Hope to get many more today.

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Scenes from a Day @ Chincoteague

Posted in daily painter, Landscape, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Assateague, Chincoteague, flamingos, lighthouse, Water Birds on May 15, 2016| Leave a Comment »

I do love to go places where there are lots of things to see and do and especially when there are great scenes for photos that may serve as reference photos for paintings. Yesterday I spent at day at Chincoteague and Assateague Islands taking LOTS of photos. There was a really neat “Artful Flea” event where many local artist sold their wares at the Farmer’s Market. I saw many nice pieces of art and crafts. My favorite was the decorated Flamingos that were for sale to benefit a local scholarship fund. Really cute and fun. Then off to the lighthouse for photos and a drive around Assateague to take wildlife photos.

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Huge Modern Art Sale

Posted in Abstract, Serendipity, tagged Sotheby's, Twombly on May 12, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Untitled 1968 – Cy Twombly

Modern Art is very popular at auctions. When I asked my students, however, it’s not always their favorite. But still…..it sells and sells big.

Take a look at the sale this week at Sotheby’s that fetched $242 million in sales including this Twombly Untitled piece from 1968 that went for $36.7 million. What do you think?

Take 2 minutes to watch this quick video that describes several modern art painters including Twombly’s “Blackboard” paintings.

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Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

Posted in Farm Animals, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Alpacca, lamb, Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, sheep on May 9, 2016| 1 Comment »

Cute Sheep

Day old Baby

Baby Sydney

Favorite Shot with little one

Alpaccas

Deb with her new friend

Great Face

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.

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Andrei Kushnir at MSV

Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Andrei Kushnir, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley on May 5, 2016| Leave a Comment »

MSV AK 1 There is a wonderful exhibit of paintings from around the Shenandoah Valley by Andrei Kushnir at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley. It’s worth going to see. His impressionistic style is very appealing and you will recognize many of the painting locations.

Take a look here for more information.

And while you are there be sure to see the marvelous Mucha exhibit that we posted about yesterday. See it here.

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Mucha at MSV

Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Art Nouveau, Mucha, Museum of the Shenandoah Valley on May 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »

MSV M 1 The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley has a wonderful Art Nouveau exhibit featuring Alphonse Mucha. I visited it yesterday with some friends and it is a MUST see. If you live near Winchester you need to make time to go. It runs through the end of July.

Click here to see more photos and information about the exhibit.

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Remembering Mama

Posted in Serendipity, tagged family, mama on April 20, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Mama 2 Twenty-two years ago today I lost my Mama. She was young…just 52 when she died of cancer. It was and still is the hardest day. For those of you who have lost your mom you understand. I know I will never stop missing her. She was a teacher so today as I teach my art classes I will be thinking of her and know that she is looking down on us smiling…

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Painting for Meals on Wheels

Posted in Paint Party, Serendipity, Small Town Life, tagged Flowerrs, fundraiser, Meals on Wheels, Tree of Life on April 10, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Tree of Life

20160228_170317-1-1 On Saturday, April 23rd at 3 pm we will be painting for a fundraiser for Meals on Wheels. This is a wonderful program that provides hot meals to home bound seniors in our region. The program services Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah, or Warren County, and the City of Winchester. We can use your help. Come paint your choice of two selections and help this worthwhile cause. And make it a family affair. Family members can paint separate panels that will create one beautiful work of art to showcase in your home.

Fee includes everything needed to paint and light refreshments.

Tickets: One painter $45-your choice of 16″x20″ Tree of Life or Field of Flowers painting. Click here to register for 1 painter.

Two painters $80- two 12″x16″ canvas to create Field of Flowers painting. Click here to register for 2 painters.
The Senior Center does great work for our community and they can always use donations. Bring any of the following items to help the Center and receive a $10 gift certificate to The Studio: Gallon Zip Lock Freezer Bags, Zip Lock sandwich bags and quart bags, plastic cutlery, napkins, #10 fruit cans, fresh fruit, and cookies. Help us help the community!

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A Stop at Black Dog Salvage

Posted in daily painter, Furniture, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Black Dog Salvage, Lamps, Roanoke on March 31, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Spot Lamp

I was asked why we stopped in Roanoke on the trip back from ConGT last weekend. (Read about ConGT here.) We were looking for a place to stop where we could do something fun that was on the way home. Carolyn and Jen suggested Black Dog Salvage. They watch Salvage Dogs, a DIY TV show that specializes in reclaiming items and repurposing them. We went to their warehouse. It was AMAZING! Check their website out here.

Cake Cover Lamp

We met some of the guys and gals from the show and we met their Black Dog, Sally, who is an old girl getting ready to retire and her replacement, Maggie May. I know you can’t believe I didn’t get a photo of them but I was too busy petting them. 🙂 I did make a couple of purchases. I got a really cool pair of lamps with spot lights that will work great a The Studio to help shed light in some areas that get a little dark at night. I also found a cool “Cake Cover” lamp that was just too cute to leave behind.

If you ever get to Roanoke…or better yet make a special trip there just to go to Black Dog Salvage. It’s worth it!

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Virginia Safari Park

Posted in Animals, Serendipity, Travel, tagged Animals, Virginia Safari Park on March 30, 2016| 2 Comments »

SP Buf SP Camel SP Deer SP Deer2 SP Llama 1 SP Ost2 SP Ostr SP View SP Zebra The trip home from ConGT was almost as exciting as the convention itself. Since we allowed a couple of days to get home so we could stop along the way that is just what we did. When we saw a sign yesterday that said Virginia Safari Park it reminded me that I had seen some photos on Facebook that friends had posted when they went there and decided we should stop and see what it was all about. It was so much fun. It’s 180 acres with over 1000 animals where you drive through a 3 mile path and can open the windows and feed the animals from buckets of feed that you purchase from the park. We laughed so hard at the silly llamas and deer trying to take the buckets from us. And we saw buffalo, long horn cattle, zebras, ostrich, giraffe, wildebeest, rhinos, and much much more. IT IS WORTH THE TRIP!