The start of a large painting.
Continuing to work. Developing a zen garden rock stack.
And it’s finished. Zen I, acrylic
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Something you don’t see everyday…..
…a girl rolling a harp down the street.
After chatting with her, I found that she was on her way to the gazebo as part of the Celtic Festival on Saturday. She was selling this harp because she had just gotten a new one. Imagine!
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I got a call late on Tuesday afternoon and met with a client to do a quick watercolor sketch of his ideas for changes to his building. He needed them quickly for a meeting today. It would have been fun to spend a little more time tweaking them but with the short notice all I had time to do was try to get his ideas on paper. S
While this is not my most favorite type of painting to do, it is something that comes up from time to time and it does help pay the bills. 🙂
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Ordo came for a play date.
It caused much excitement with Lincoln and Jed resumed his supervisory duties.
We could learn a lot from these two – play hard but don’t forget to take a break!
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This is why I love to crochet. This little angel is holding a bunny that her aunt purchased for her at Delilah’s. She loves it. And I love the photo. Thanks for sharing it with me Auntie.
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These young artist did a great job painting the Farm Gate a few weeks ago.
This is just an example of the kinds of paintings that the kids will do in Summer Art Camp. The first weeklong camp will begin June 27th and is for students ages 7 – 12. If you have a budding artist, please contact me for more information. There is still a couple of spaces left for that week. There are five weeks to choose from so if that week doesn’t work for you, just email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com and I can send you the full schedule.
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This is what I call 4 Lincoln. These are the two paintings of Stinkin’ Lincoln that I did for the Bark for the Park series. They are both 12″x12″ acrylic on canvas. The green one sold at the reception for Bark for the Park and the teal one is hanging in my living room with the portraits of all the dogs I have had. 🙂
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I had a delightful time yesterday painting at The Southerlands with three lovely artists: Annajean, Charlotte, and Inge.
They created beautiful landscapes during their first lesson with me. And what a good job they did. I’m looking forward to next week’s session!
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I love going to Washington DC. The first time I went was as a child of about 10 years on a family vacation. I fell in love with the history, the museums, everything about it and I think that was the start my love of history and the reason I majored in history in college. (Yes, history, not art.)
Yesterday, my cousin Linda, who is visiting from Georgia, and I spent the day at the National Gallery. There are so many wonderful exhibits there now that we couldn’t see it all.
However, we did get to see the Gauguin: Maker of Myths exhibit. It was the last day and terribly crowded but worth it. You can see more here. We also saw the Small French Paintings exhibit which is a permanent exhibit that I’ve seen many times but I love it and always enjoy it so. 
This Boudin is an example of the beautiful paintings in that collection and you can read more that collection here.
But the most amazing thing we saw was the Chester Dale collection. What a stunning collection of art. And what an interesting couple they were. Well worth a trip to the NGA. Go if you haven’t already. The Dale’s left a generous endowment as well as a tremendous collection of work from impressionism to modern art to the NGA. This huge collection is a must see. Read more about it here.
Any day spent viewing art with a good friend is a perfect day. And when the art includes dogs ….
well, need I say more!
(This is Toulouse–Lautrec’s Fleche)
(Renoir’s dog)
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Several months ago I got a commission for a painting as an anniversary gift from a man for his wife. It was a photo of their wedding dance. But he also wanted it to reflect a favorite book that they had.
So I worked to incorporate the two. This is the beginning.
After working on it for a while, this is what I had.
Eventually I made a few more changes to make them each stand out more.
And this was the final painting. He loved it. I hope she did too!
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The Studio 