Renoir’s Blue Cup
The 3rd session of Art Camp begins today with young artists, ages 8-13, as we study the Impressionists. We will paint like Monet, Degas and Renoir! Doesn’t that sound like fun? Well, it will be.
Today we will discuss Pierre-Auguste Renoir who was a leader in the development of the Impressionists style. He is best known for his use of light and saturated color and his feminine subject matter. You can read more about Renoir here. The young artists will be painting Renoir’s Blue Cup today. Check in tomorrow to see how their painting turns out.
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Yesterday the young painters at Art Camp did this fabulous Vincent Van Gogh painting. We discussed Van Gogh and his interesting history and family. And didn’t these girls do a stunning job recreating Van Gogh’s chair!?! I really enjoyed this session of camp with these girls. They are all very good painters and interested in art and the process. Great work!
Next week Art Camp continues with young artists age 8-13 studying Impressionism and painters like Monet, Degas and Renoir. This particular week is full but there are others available if you have young painters interested in having fun with art this summer. See the schedule here.
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Session 2 of Art Camp started yesterday with young artists (age 14-18) painting a Georgia O’Keeffe Seashell. We discussed her work as well as talked about differences in oil and acrylic paints. We did this one in oil.
Fabulous!!!
And these girls worked so quickly that we were able to do a little miniature landscape also. I love how we all painted from the same reference photo but all got a little different look. Great job!!! Tomorrow we work in acrylics and we’ll be visiting Vincent. 😉
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Turner Field
Atlanta Braves
Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves, is the 13th field in the series of Major League Baseball parks that I have painted for the Kickstarter project. The Braves are my team. I grew up in Georgia and we were Braves fans. We went to Florida for Spring Training to watch them each year. We suffered when they had bad seasons and celebrated those good years. And while I went to more games at Fulton County stadium than I have at the newer Turner Field I look forward to seeing more here. It’s one of those really large stadiums that has the feel of a small baseball field.
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Art Camp, Ages 5-7 with Monet’s Poppies
We had a great day of Art Camp with the young artists painting Monet’s Poppy Field. We talked about Monet (that they like to call Money) and impressionism and they painted these fabulous paintings. Great job!
This was the first time we have offered camp for this young age group and they were great. How can you resist their happy faces when they show off their art.
The Twins with Framed Blue Dogs
Here are the Grady twins (with Gryffin photo-bombing) with their painting of Blue Dog. They brought it back in for me to frame for them. Wonderful!
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Art Camp 2013
Session 1, ages 5-7
Art Camp started yesterday with six great young artists. These kids are just 5 – 7 years old and look at what a great job they did on Rodriguez Blue Dog! Super work everyone. Keep it up.
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A few weeks ago I shared with you my day at Long Green where I went to paint with other artists for an upcoming show that will benefit Blue Ridge Hospice. (Read more about it here.) I completed one of the paintings that I started that day. When I get more details about the show I will pass it along.
Long Green, oil on canvas, 9″x12″.
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Minute Maid Park
Houston Astros
Completed Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. This is the second domed field in the series that I’ve painted. To see all the paintings that are done so far in the Painted Diamonds series click here.
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Ethan and Lincoln
Because of the really stormy weather we had yesterday I only had one young artist come to class yesterday. When this happens I let them choose what they want to paint from the paintings they may have missed in previous classes. Ethan chose to paint Lincoln. And what a great job you did Ethan! Wonderful. You can see what the other artists did with this painting last year by clicking here.
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Pat
Gretchen
Jan
Kathy
I am always so proud of my art students and love sharing their work with you. I often post photos of the kids paintings and forget to take photos of the adults as they finish their paintings. But yesterday it seems that everyone was finishing paintings at the same time so I got some great shots. These are all Wednesday morning or evening students. Keep it up girls. Great job by all!!!
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