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Dogwood Blossom

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Dogwood, dogwood blossom, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

This is a painting I did last week as an art lesson in an adult class. It’s “Dogwood Blossom“, acrylic on canvas, 11″x14”, available for $125. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

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Reen’s Birthday Paint Party

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Paint Party, Virginia Artist on April 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I had the most delightful evening leading a Paint Party for Reen’s Birthday. This was a fun group of ladies and they painted some wonderful dogwood paintings. Everyone was so enthusiastic about painting and it came through in their work. Great job everyone….and Happy Birthday Reen!

And the little cutie in the front middle is Cassie. She was the life of the party. 🙂 For more information on Paint Parties click here.

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Luzia’s and the Leadership Class Paints

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on April 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Luzia joined our art class last night and this is her first painting. Great job! And the best part, she had a great time. Painting is fun. Why don’t you come join us too.

Yesterday was a day of firsts. I was asked to work with the Front Royal-Warren County Leadership Class during their Art and Tourism Day and they all painted their first landscapes of the mountains and did wonderful work. And they had fun too. I think there is a theme here: PAINTING IS FUN!!!

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Wonderful Artists at The Southerlands

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, fruit, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on April 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Miss Eyeleen working on her Strawberry painting

Miss Gaylor – the Queen of Strawberry paintings

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Donation to Warren County Government Center

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on April 9, 2013| 1 Comment »

In 2011 I taught an artist residency with kids at all five elementary schools to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Warren County. We painted a large painting that each school now hangs for everyone to see. Read more about that project here and here.) For that project I painted a sample painting for the kids to see what it was that they would be producing during our time together. In the upper left corner of each painting that the school kids produced they painted their school.

I decided to paint out the school and paint the Government Center on the sample painting and then donate it to hang at the Center. Here is the completed painting. I am meeting Brandy at the Center this morning to hang the painting and I am very happy that they want to hang it right away. I’ll try to have some photos to share soon.

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Nationals Park

Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball park, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Landscape, MLB, Nationals Park, Virginia Artist on April 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Nationals Park
Washington Nationals

The painting of Nationals Park is about 95% finished. It is the first in the series of 30 Major League Baseball parks I am painting as part of my Kickstarter Project. If you haven’t looked at my project PLEASE take a minute to look and pledge to make the project a reality. Thanks!

Now back to the painting. I often get questions about the process of finishing a painting. The way I work is that I get a painting to a point where I feel like it’s done and then I hang it and live with it so that I can look at it for a while. That way I can see if there is anything that I want to tweak. Maybe there is something that needs to be made stronger or maybe there is something that needs eliminating in order for the painting to work. With this one I am at the “living with it stage”. Now on to paint Orioles Field at Camden Yards.

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Forsythia Means Spring

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Spring is finally peeking out and the kids painted “Forsythia” this week at class. And they did a very nice job! Now come on Spring so we have more flowers to paint.

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My Kickstarter Project Has Launched – Yikes!

Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball fields, daily painter, daily painting, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, Virginia Artist on April 3, 2013| 2 Comments »

I am so excited and so scared at the same time. I launched a Kickstarter project last night so the clock is ticking to make it work. My project is “Painted Diamonds – 30 Ball Parks in 30 Weeks“. I plan to paint every major league ball park between now and the World Series. You can click here to see the project.
If you are new to Kickstarter take a look. They promote their site as a new way to fund creativity. They only accept creative projects. An artist lays out the project, writes it up and submits it for approval. If approved, it launches on the Kickstarter website for the world to see and hopefully to fund.
Funding is all or nothing. If the project doesn’t reach its goal then no money is exchanged. And for whatever amount is pledged a reward is offered.
It sounds confusing but it really is not. Please take a look. I’m asking all my friends and followers to please share this post with your friends. The more people who see it the better chance I have of making it happen. I’ll be updating you as the month goes on. I’ll try not to bore you with it but I want to keep you posted on my progress.
So here we go. I have a month to get the word out. Thanks for your help and consideration.

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Palmer’s First Painting

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on March 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We had a fun art class with kids yesterday. This was Palmer’s first class with me. And didn’t he do a great job on his Capital View painting?! Terrific! And Zach did a wonderful painting as well. That’s Zach behind his painting. His mom won’t let me post his cute face. 🙂

Good job boys. Now what might we do next week?

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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.