We often get visitors here at the house.
This is Morgan, my niece who was here a few weeks ago. The boys LOVE her and she loves them.
In the window is Max visiting this week while his people are on vacation. He loves playing with Lincoln.
And you will remember Ordo. He visits often since he stayed with us for a few weeks last May. He also loves playing with Lincoln. (Lincoln is such the little host!)
And this is Jen, Ordo’s mom, and Lincoln looking on.
We love having puppy visitors!
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During the Farm Tour last May I took lots of photos of Barns and Farms for the upcoming show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. I have painted several including this one of a horse stall barn at Butch Eastham’s farm.
There was several children there that day so excited about seeing the horses. I decided it would be better painting with the little girl in it so I made a change.
That’s one thing about painting. You can always change something if you decide you would like it better another way!
I call this Farm Tour at the Eastham Barn. It is an 8″x10″ acrylic on canvas.
Also, took this photo of Little Girl when I was at the Eastham Farm that day. Couldn’t resist showing it…
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Several weeks ago as I was preparing for Modern Art Camp for the kids I decided I needed to attempt a copy of a Matisse painting since that’s what we would be doing for camp. The one on the left, Lady in a Purple Dress, is
the one I did. My Wednesday Young Artists gave it a go too. Charlee is shown her with her beautiful version.
And this is Maggie with her excellent version. Great job girls. It was fun painting in a little different style and learning more about Matisse.
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Yesterday I spent several hours at the location where we will build the new dog park with a marvelous photographer, Amanda Hoyle, and a delightful volunteer, Kaydee Gizzi. These two worked really hard to get a great shot of every dog that came out to support our fundraiser for the park.
The lengths that Kaydee went to in order to set up the shot for Amanda was amazing. Here she is holding Flaco. Setting her up on the ground and then rolling out of the shot and Flaco runs like the wind to her mom. Really funny to watch. Many thanks ladies for your hard work and for your support of the Dog Park. We are getting so close now. Look for the next two events – Community Yard Sale at Petco on Saturday, August 20th and a Jewelry Show and Auction on Tuesday, August 23rd at the Blue Ridge Arts Council Gallery.
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The final painting during Modern Art Week Camp was a study of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can.
And look at the fabulous job each of these young artists did with their painting.
All ten students did beautiful work this whole week.
There are only two weeks of art camp left this summer. The week of August 8 and the week of August 22. Both of these weeks will explore a variety of styles from impressionism to modern. There are only a couple of slots left in each week so sign your young artist up now. Email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .
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Yesterday I gave you a tease of the Art Campers painting “Matisse”. Well here is the finished painting. SUPER!!!!
This is Modern Week at Art Camp and we have been doing some really fun pieces after Matisse, Warhol, & Johns. And we’ve discussed modern art in all its various forms.
This is our version of the famous Jasper Johns painting of the American Flag. Another terrific job guys!
Today is our final day for Modern Week and we wrap up our “Masterpiece”. Can’t wait to show it to you.
And don’t forget, if you have a young artist, ages 7-12, there are a few spaces left in Art Camp Week 4 (Aug. 8- 12) and Week 5 (Aug. 22-26). Email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to sign them up.
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Art Camp this week is going great. We are working on Modern Art paintings. We just completed our “Matisse” painting. Here are some of the young artists working on their Matisse.
Then after working with the Art Campers all morning I rushed over to Angel’s Korner where my next group was waiting….34 young artists, ages 5-11. We painted berries. Here are some of the 34 Strawberry paintings that they did.
Good job everyone!!!
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Last weekend at the Plein Air Festival in Easton, Maryland, we met a ten-year old plein air painter who competed with the adults in the Paint-out. WOW!
I know adults who are scared to paint outdoors, much less in front of thousands of people. His name is Will Ridenhour and he loves art. You could tell just by talking with him a few minutes . And kudos to his parents who were there encouraging him.
Linda and I couldn’t resist the painting so we purchased it and hope to use it in some way to raise money for our dog park.
Will was excited when we told him we wanted to buy his painting. It was great fun for all of us. Keep painting Will!!!
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Art Camp continues. This week our focus is on Modern Art. First we produced a color wheel to learn more about color mixing.
Then we applied what we had learned about color to painting Rothko-like modern paintings.
The young artists did a great job producing these wonderful colors using only blue, yellow, red and white on their palettes. Don’t you think?
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Benny and Dewey, acrylic on canvas panel, 11″x14″. Commissioned as a wedding gift. Presented this weekend and the bride and groom loved it.
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The Studio 