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Southerlands Paints Poppies

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , on July 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago, these lovely painters at the Southerlands created beautiful poppy paintings.  Good job girls! 

I was so busy posting art camp photos that I didn’t get them onto the blog.  Here they are!

 

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Art Camp Demos

Posted in Art Camp, daily painter, tagged , , , , , , on July 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

  Here are some of the demos that I completed during the first week of Art Camp studying and learning to paint in the Impressionist style.  We had a great week and I’m looking forward to the next week, beginning July 25th when we will begin studying Modern Art.  Fun!!!  If you know a young artist (age 7-12) let them know it’s not too late to sign up for one of the three remaining weeks of Art Camp this summer.

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Final Day of Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

 The final day of the first week of Art Camp was Friday.  We completed out Still Life paintings and then made Art Trading Cards.  Each camper painted five cards and exchanged them with their new artist friends in class.  We all had a great week.  Looking forward to the next one beginning July 25th.  Come join us.  See more information here. 

 

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Art Camp – Day 2

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , on June 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp continued yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council with the young artists producing two beautiful paintings. 

The first was these great blue birds.

 

 

 

 

 

They also painted a terrific cardinal.  They will put final touches on those this morning as well as start working on their “Masterpiece”!  Stay tuned….more to come.

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Art Camp Begins

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

We had a great first day of Art Camp yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.  I have six students (one is camera-shy) and they all produced great art.

We started with the basic color wheel, mixing colors, learning about primary and complementary colors.  They picked that up really fast!

 Then they painted their first piece of art.   It’s a beautiful mountain scene.  Everyone of them did a fabulous job!  No kiddie art for these guys…they are making real grown-up art!  I love it!!!

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Hamlet

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2011| 2 Comments »

 

Last week I was commissioned to paint Hamlet, a Japanese Chin, that was much-loved by his people.  He was a sweet old man and quite handsome. 

Here is the beginning sketch.

 

 

 

 

 

Next, I chose a background for Hamlet.  A strong blue seemed to suit this painting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 And this is the completed painting.  I think Hamlet turned out great!  How about you?

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Zen II

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , on June 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Zen II, acrylic on gallery wrap canvas, 30″x20″.

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Zen I

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

 

 

 

 

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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Quick Watercolor Sketches

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

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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Young Artist paint the Farm Gate

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

  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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