The Studio

A Road to the Mountains

April 18, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

The kids painted a lovely landscape yesterday in class. Madeline and Mason are new to painting with me and they are doing fabulous work! Good job!

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A few days ago I posted Geraniums in the Window (see it here) and said that I needed to touch it up a little more. I did that last night. I darkened the shadow under the window and added some texture to the wall. Also, I hit the flowers with a little more light. Now it’s finished.

Posted in Flowers | Tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painting, flowers, Geranium painting, geraniums, impressionism, Virginia Artist | 2 Comments »

Free Cotton Hat Pattern

April 16, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

As promised here is the Cotton Hat crochet -2-. This is a simple, basic pattern that can be changed easily using different stitches. For example I have used a V-stitch on the main part of the hat on these before. Feel free to change it up.

Also, I have added a “Crochet page” to my blog. You will now see a tab at the top of the page that will take you to a tab that shows some of the crochet work I have done and many of them have patterns. Thanks for asking for them.

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Happy Birthday Leonardo da Vinci

April 15, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

Born on April 15, 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was truly a “Renaissance” man. Primarily known as a painter, he was also a mathematician, sculptor, scientist, musician, engineer, architect, writer, botanist and the list goes on.

Leonardo da Vinci’s Design for a Flying Machine

He painted the most famous portrait of all time, The Mona Lisa, as well as the most reproduced religious painting, The Last Supper. There was a renewed interest in many of his drawings and inventions because of a book/movie released a few years ago – The Da Vinci Code.

He is an intriguing figure to study. You can learn more about him here.

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Cotton Hats in time for Summer

April 14, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

I had a customer suggest that I make some of the crocheted hats in cotton yarn for the summer. Here is a start. And I wrote the pattern out too. I will post it tomorrow along with the new Crochet page with other patterns.

Notice the variations in the three hats shown here. They all use the same pattern but using a different stitch for a couple of them. It’s fun to play around with the pattern so feel free to do your own thing.

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Geranium in the Window Sill

April 12, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

IMG_20140405_222838 I got a good start on this Geranium sitting in the window sill this past week. I haven’t been able to complete it yet but hopefully I will find some time in the next few days and then I can show you a finished painting. For all my painting students – can you see what’s missing? Maybe a shadow under the window ledge? And some weathering on the walls. Heavier shadowing on the window frame…..and on and on. 😉

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Catching up with the Kids Art

April 11, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

Kids Paint Penguins

Kids Paint Landscape with Old Barn

I haven’t posted the kids work in the last few weeks so I wanted to catch up with them. They are doing beautiful work (and learning something too)! We have had a few new students join us. If you have a young artist have them join us on Thursday afternoons at 4:15.

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Coffee and Pie

April 10, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

The next 1st Saturday Paint Party is May 3rd at 3 pm at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. We will be doing something a little different. We will paint two small paintings – a coffee cup and a slice of pie. Our paintings will be similar to these. To register contact kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com .

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Play Ball!

April 9, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

Turner Field
Atlanta Braves

Baseball season has started and this year it feels really strange not to be painting the MLB parks like I was doing last year all during the season. My Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds was a lot of fun but kept me busy for 6 months painting those parks. (Read all about it and see the paintings here.)

If you have a favorite team you can check the Painted Diamonds page to see if that painting is still available or order a print of your favorite field.

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Crocheted Wreath

April 8, 2014 by kellywalkerstudios

I saw one of these wreathes in a magazine recently and just loved it. I had to make one. It was fun to use up some of the left-over yarn stash and create something pretty as well.

I have been asked to share more of my patterns (I make up a lot as I go) and patterns that I use. I am trying to write out some of mine and as soon as I do I will put a new page here on my blog for crochet where I will share my patterns and links to the others that I use. Hope to have it up for you soon.

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