Posted in daily painter, Flowers, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, potted flowers, Virginia Artist on May 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
1- Sketched
2 – Background
3 – Colors Determined
4 – Flowers In
5 – 90% complete
While working at Delilah’s Art & Gift Shop on Sunday I set up a table on the porch and painted. I like to do that because people are curious and will ask questions about art and painting when they see you working on a piece. This is a look at the progression of my Sunday painting.
Posted in Landscape, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Rowboat, Virginia Artist on May 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Paint this Rowboat at the June 7th Paint Party.
The 1st Saturday Paint Party coming up on June 7th will have us painting a rowboat. This is the demo piece I painted this week as our sample. If you want to join in on the Paint Party fun just contact me to sign up for the party. It is held at 3 pm at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Hope to see you there.
Posted in Art Class, Flowers, tagged acrylic, Art Class, impressionism, Tulips on May 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The boys painted tulips in class this week and didn’t they do a great job! Keep up the good work Mason and Jacob.
Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, sheep on April 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The kids class painted a nice little farm landscape with sheep yesterday. They did a terrific job with this painting. Keep up the good work!
Posted in daily painter, Flowers, tagged acrylic, Bluebells, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
We go to the Dog Park almost every morning and for the last week or so the Bluebells have been blooming along the path by the river leading to the park. It’s beautiful.
Of course my “kids” like to take a look and a sniff and sometimes they aren’t so gentle so flowers get smushed. So yesterday when they trampled some I picked them up and put them in a vase when we got home and took them to art class.
Bluebells
This is the little painting that I did inspired by the Bluebells. They are happy, sweet little flowers.
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Little Known Facts, Travel, tagged acrylic, Chicago Cubs paintings, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter, Landscape, Major League Baseball, Painted Diamonds, painting of Wrigley field, Virginia Artist, Wrigley Field on April 23, 2014| 1 Comment »
Wrigley Field
Home of the Chicago Cubs
Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, turns 100 today.
When asked last year while I was painting the Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds what is my favorite ball park to go see a ball game I said Wrigley Field. If you haven’t been there you really have to go if you like baseball. It’s a ball park – not a stadium. It has an intimate feel about it. According to where you sit you may have to lean around posts to see. I love Wrigley. It’s a great old park.
Happy Birthday Wrigley!
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, impressionism, Landscape on April 18, 2014| 1 Comment »
The kids painted a lovely landscape yesterday in class. Madeline and Mason are new to painting with me and they are doing fabulous work! Good job!
Posted in Flowers, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painting, flowers, Geranium painting, geraniums, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 17, 2014| 2 Comments »
A few days ago I posted Geraniums in the Window (see it here) and said that I needed to touch it up a little more. I did that last night. I darkened the shadow under the window and added some texture to the wall. Also, I hit the flowers with a little more light. Now it’s finished.
Posted in daily painter, Flowers, tagged acrylic, daily painter, geraniums, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I got a good start on this Geranium sitting in the window sill this past week. I haven’t been able to complete it yet but hopefully I will find some time in the next few days and then I can show you a finished painting. For all my painting students – can you see what’s missing? Maybe a shadow under the window ledge? And some weathering on the walls. Heavier shadowing on the window frame…..and on and on. 😉
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape on April 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Kids Paint Penguins
Kids Paint Landscape with Old Barn
I haven’t posted the kids work in the last few weeks so I wanted to catch up with them. They are doing beautiful work (and learning something too)! We have had a few new students join us. If you have a young artist have them join us on Thursday afternoons at 4:15.
The Studio 