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Demo to Loosen Up Your Work

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, Tips for Better Painting, tagged Abstract, abstract art, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, floral, impressionism, pear, Virginia Artist on February 7, 2014| 5 Comments »

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.

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O Christmas Tree

Posted in Art Camp, Holidays, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Christmas tree on December 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The boys painted these wonderful “Abstract Christmas Trees” in class yesterday. Fun! Great job guys. Next week will be the last Kids Painting Class of 2013. If you have a young artist, consider signing them up for classes in the New Year or give them a gift certificate to get them started. Contact kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com for more information.

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A Fun Transformation

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on September 6, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Before

After

We had a fun lesson yesterday with my young artist. We transformed an old canvas that had been painted as an abstract and turned it into a fun post-impressionist painting in the style of Matisse. Take a look at the before and after. What do you think?

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Pat’s Favorite

Posted in Abstract, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on July 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Pat’s Favorite is an acrylic abstract, 12″ x 12″, on gallery wrap canvas. From time to time one of my students wants to experiment with abstract. That happened last week in art class so this is the demonstration painting that I did while explaining abstract.

One of my favorite students, Pat (see her here), is not a fan of abstract so I named this for her. 🙂

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Blue Dogs at Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, Dogs, Virginia Artist on June 18, 2013| 1 Comment »

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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Kids Paint Abstract Flowers

Posted in Art Class, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers on May 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We had a terrific class this week where the kids painted representational abstract flowers. Great job everyone. If you have a young artist don’t forget about Art Camp coming up this summer. You can learn more about it here and download the PDF file with schedule and registration form.

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Transforming an Old Painting

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, Tips for Better Painting, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, Virginia Artist on May 2, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Adding a Table to an old Abstract

At class last night I decided to transform an old abstract painting into something else. You can paint right over some paints and make an entirely different creation. If the paint is especially thick you can sand it down lightly with a fine sandpaper. I am working in acrylic paints with this one that didn’t need sanding. I started with an abstract that I did back in February (you can read about it here) and started painting in a table.

Next I started thinking about where I wanted to add a vase of flowers so that I could paint in a background all around where the flowers would be. And I added a vase and started firming up the shapes of the flowers. Tonight I hope to continue putting in details that will finish it off as a “representational abstract” painting.

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Ready for Spring

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on March 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »

At our young artists class this week we painted a representational abstract of a floral arrangement. We called it Spring Explosion. We use brushes but also our fingers to get the abstract effect. And yes, they LOVED that! If you have a young artists ages 7-13 contact us and come join the fun.

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Blue Abstracts

Posted in Abstract, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on January 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Interlude in Blue I & II, acrylic on canvas, 12″x12″, available by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com.

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Drip Art

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, Drip art, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

As you know, I work with kids art classes on Wednesday and Thursday at 4:15 at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. And while I attempt to complete a painting, a still life, a landscape, etc., almost every week, this is what they would love to do. Drip paintings or splatter art is one of their favorites. This is a piece I did on wood with them several weeks ago. They love to just drip the paint and see what happens.