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Completed Painting from Peebles

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, vineyards, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Virginia winery, Winding Road Cellars on September 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Earlier this week I wrote about painting at Pebbles last Saturday. (Read about it here.) I finally got a few minutes to touch up the painting and get it closer to a finished work. Here it is. I have been invited to hang my work at a new winery in Hume, Winding Road Cellars so I am working on some vineyard scenes for that. I hope to take them out there next week.

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Valley Vineyard

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley on September 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Logan and Ethan did a great job yesterday in the Kid’s Art Class painting a beautiful view of a Shenandoah Valley vineyard. Super!

If you have a young person, ages 7-13 that is interested in painting contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com and sign them up for a painting class. It’s a great way for them to learn about color mixing and composition in a fun and productive environment. And just look at the wonderful art they have at the end of each class!

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Painting at Peebles

Posted in daily painter, Tips for Better Painting, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Peebles, Shenandoah Valley, Vineyard, Virginia Artist, Virginia Wine, Virginia wineries, Wine, wine glass on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Carley, my helper

Doing Grandma’s make-up

Making progress

Adding the wine

Putting in details

I get invited to paint at special events from time to time. A good friend of mine is manager at Peebles here in town and invited me to paint there for a special promotion they were doing last spring. They had me back this weekend. I painted a larger version of a small painting (Virginia WIne I, see it here) that I did a few weeks ago and I enlisted a helper. Often, when painting on location, I invite kids to “help” me. And usually they jump right in. This little girl was so much fun. She helped me paint for a while and then she did her grandmothers make-up at a table they had set-up for people to try out some new things. Adorable.

Virginia Wine II, is acrylic on canvas, 18″x24″ and is almost finished. I still have a little more to do to it but we got a great deal done at the event.

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Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Comerica Park, daily painter, Detroit Tigers, Landscape, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on September 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Comerica Park
Detroit Tigers

Number 26 in the series of 30, Comerica Park is the home of the Detroit Tigers. It is one of only two modern ball parks that feature the dirt strip between home plate and the pitcher’s mound. (The other being Chase Field.) Beyond the outfield is a beautiful view of the Detroit skyline. The scoreboard at Comerica features two large tigers on top and when a home run is scored their eyes light up and growls are played on the loud speakers.

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Paint Party!

Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, art lessons, Beach scene, impressionism, Landscape, Paint Party, Virginia Artist on September 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We had a really fun Paint Party last night and we turned back time to summer and painted a beach scene. Great job everyone!

The next Paint Party open for anyone is Saturday, October 5 from 4 – 6:30 at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register. Get a friend or two together and come see what all the fun is about for yourself.

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Stacy’s Tree

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Weeping Cherry Tree on September 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Completed painting of “Stacy’s Tree”

Reference Photo for Stacy’s Tree

I took a short break yesterday from painting Ball Parks to paint one of my favorite trees in my neighborhood. I have taken several photos of this Weeping Cherry over the years thinking I would paint it and just never took the time. But yesterday I made myself paint it because I want to give it to Stacy, whose tree it is. Stacy was a life saver to me a few weeks ago when I couldn’t walk because of my knee. She’s a physical therapist and wonderful neighbor. On the day that my knee pain was the worst and I didn’t know what to do she took out time from walking Willie, her cattle dog, to look at my problem; talk me through what I should do; and even went home and brought back crutches for me to use. And then over the course of the next several weeks while I was hobbling around she checked on me to make sure I was making good progress. She was such a BIG help and made me feel as if I were not going crazy. So today when I return her crutches I wanted to give her something to say thanks. I thought this little painting might be good. I call it Stacy’s Tree. It’s an acrylic on canvas measuring 6″x8″.

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Milwaukee Brewers’ Miller Park

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Major League Baseball, Miller Park, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Miller Park
Milwaukee Brewers

Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, is number 25 in the series of 30. And it has a retractable roof. The left field corner features Bernie’s Dugout, where the Brewers mascot, Bernie Brewer resides. At the beginning of the game, after every Brewers home run, and if the Brewers win, fireworks go off and Bernie slides down his slide.

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Virginia Wine

Posted in daily painter, Tips for Better Painting, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, red wine, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia Wine, Virginia wineries, wine glass, winery on September 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Virginia Wine” complete

Step 1 – A sketch and laying in the sky

Step 2 – Adding distance with mountains and meadow

Step 3 – Adding middle distance – vineyards

Step 4 – Adding the foreground – a table and glass

I did this painting that I call Virginia Wine for a special request this week. It is an acrylic on 6″ x 8″ canvas.

As I painted it I tried to take photos because several of you have told me that you enjoy seeing how the paintings develop. So here you are:

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Coors Field

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Colorado Rockies, Coors Field, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Major League Baseball, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Coors Field
Colorado Rockies

Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, in Denver, Colorado features a center field bleacher area known as the “Rock Pile”. And the seats beginning at Row 20 on the Upper Deck are purple indicating the city’s one mile elevation point.

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Winding Down a BIG Project

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Kickstarter project, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, MLB, Painted Diamonds, Virginia Artist on September 14, 2013| 2 Comments »

The last few weeks I have been feeling a lot of pressure to finish the last few ball park paintings in the Kickstarter Painted Diamonds project. There are only a few more to go. What I did this past week was start several and work on parts of each every day. I find this is more interesting at this point in the project. Yesterday was spent painting, painting, painting. And that is the plan for this weekend too!