At yesterdays Paint Party the painters created some beautiful portraits of their pets. And fun was had by all!!! Terrific job ladies.
The next Paint Your Pet Portrait Party is Saturday, March 15th at 3 pm. Register early for your spot by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com . See you there.
Posted in Paint Parties, Pet Portaits | Tagged Blue Ridge Arts Council, cat, Dog Park, Dogs, Paint Party, pet portrait | Leave a Comment »
Paint Parties continue today with a group painting their pets this afternoon. Have you registered to paint your pet’s portrait yet? Or if you’d rather, come paint a beautiful landscape or still life on the 1st Saturday of the month. If you haven’t tried a paint party you are missing all the fun. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to sign up for one soon. Read more about Paint Parties here.
Posted in Paint Parties | Tagged Paint Party | Leave a Comment »
With all this snow I am crocheting hats like crazy. I love to crochet when it’s cold out and boy, has it been cold out! Here are some of the newest ones. They are available for purchase at Delilah’s on Main Street in Front Royal or by order.
For those of you who crochet I am going to try to write out the pattern for these. I don’t use a written pattern so I will do the best I can to write it out and post it here soon.
Posted in Crochet | Tagged Crochet, crochet hats | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t forgotten about the book still life I showed the sketch of a few days ago. I finally had some time to lay in some color yesterday.
Here you can see the reference photo at the top, the painting on the easel and the palette at the bottom of the photo. There is still quite a bit to do to it but it’s shaping up nicely.
Posted in Books | Tagged acrylic, Books, Books still life, daily painter, impressionism, Virginia Artist | Leave a Comment »
Today is Lincoln’s Birthday! Yes, that Lincoln and my Lincoln. Since my Lincoln is adopted and we are not sure of his exact birthday we thought this would be the best date for him. (We adopted him in the fall and the vet guessed that he was less than a year old so we figured his birthday was sometime right after the first of the year.)
He has been a mess ever since we adopted him but he is our mess and we love him anyway.
So HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINCOLN…you little stinker!
A couple of years ago my young artists painted Lincoln’s portrait. It is one of my favorites. See it here.
Posted in Dogs | Tagged Dogs, Lincoln, Rescue dogs | 2 Comments »
More hats available at Delilah’s. I enjoy making these when the weather is cold outside.
Posted in Crochet | Tagged Crochet, crochet hats | 1 Comment »
Bill Whiting exhibit
photo by Laura Henderson
There is a wonderful retrospective exhibit at the Barns of Rose Hill through March 9th featuring Bill Whitings beautiful oil paintings. Read more about it here in this tribute by “Emily Frost” on the Shenandoah Living Blog.
Posted in Travel | Tagged Barns of Rose Hill, Bill Whiting | Leave a Comment »
The boys created these lovely floral paintings in kids class this week. Just in time for Valentine’s Day. If you know of a young person who would like to paint with us just contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register. We meet on Thursdays at 4:15 at the Arts Council.
Posted in Art Class | Tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism | Leave a Comment »
Warm-up Abstract
Warm-up Floral
Warm-up Pear
In our Wednesday morning adult art class this week I gave a demonstration on “Loosening up” your paintings. I took a workshop several years ago from Robert Burridge, a terrific California painter and teacher, who taught us to do these warm-up paintings. His idea is to line up 6-8 sheets of watercolor paper and then quickly lay on several colors of paint. They will then all look like abstract paintings. The second step is to paint out anything that doesn’t look like whatever subject you want the painting to be. For instance, in the floral painting shown here I filled in background and added a vase. Then I shaped up a few of the colors to look like flowers and leaves. This entire process, all three of these paintings, took about 20 minutes. This forces a painter to work quickly and loose.
Posted in Abstract, Art Class, Tips for Better Painting | Tagged Abstract, abstract art, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, floral, impressionism, pear, Virginia Artist | 5 Comments »
The layout for a new painting of books for all my reading friends.
Stay tuned for more…
Posted in daily painter | Tagged composition | Leave a Comment »
The Studio 