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Wonderful Student Art

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , on February 28, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Gretchen with her "Alpine View"

Gretchen with her “Alpine View”

Kathy with her "Cat in the Door"

Kathy with her “Cat in the Door”

I love helping my students create beautiful paintings each week in class.  For those who don’t know in our weekly art classes each student paints whatever subject matter they prefer and I help each person individually instead of everyone painting the same thing as we do at the Paint Parties.  This allows each painter to have something they really want when they complete a painting rather than just the subjects that I select.

Here are a couple of really nice ones that Gretchen and Kathy completed this past week.  Great job!!!

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Book Demo Finished

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , , on February 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CAM06368I finally got back to the demonstration painting from the 1st Saturday Paint Party and finished it up.  I often start demo paintings while teaching and don’t get back to them to finish because I get busy helping students complete theirs.  I like this one and wanted to wrap it up.

The next 1st Saturday Paint Party is this Saturday, March 1 at 4 pm.  There are a few spaces left to paint a landscape this time so register today.

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More with Books

Posted in Art Class, Books, tagged , , , , , , on February 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CAM06317As I continue to work on the book series (I haven’t given up…just been misdirected for a week or so) we decided to paint a book with my young student yesterday.  Here is Ethan with a wonderful painting of an open book and glasses.  We painted side by side so you see his version on the left, mine on the right and the reference photo above my painting.

We decided a plain background was too dull so we put “wallpaper” on the wall behind our tables.   Great job Ethan!

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Beautiful Florals

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , on February 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CAM06107The boys created these lovely floral paintings in kids class this week.  Just in time for Valentine’s Day.  If you know of a young person who would like to paint with us just contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register.  We meet on Thursdays at 4:15 at the Arts Council.

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Demo to Loosen Up Your Work

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, Tips for Better Painting, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2014| 5 Comments »

Warm-up Abstract

Warm-up Abstract

Warm-up Floral

Warm-up Floral

Warm-up Pear

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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Another Mermaid for Jan

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , on February 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Jan's Granddaughter - The Mermaid

Jan’s Granddaughter – The Mermaid

You met Jan last year.  She is one of my Wednesday morning students who does a fabulous job painting wonderful things for her family.  Here is another mermaid she did for one of her granddaughters.  It looks super!!!  Great work Janice!  Click here to see the last mermaid Jan painted.

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These Girls are Good!

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , on January 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Logan with "Eyes"

Logan with “Eyes”

Hannah with Blue Bird

Hannah with Blue Bird

Logan and Hannah are two students from my “Young Artists” class that have been with  me for several years and have moved up to the adult class.  They do very well mixing color and working independently on paintings.  Here are two that they just completed.  Excellent!!!

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Resolved to Paint?

Posted in Art Class, tagged on January 22, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Paint Your Pet Workshop paintersDid you make a New Year’s resolution?  Was it to try something new and different?  Or to learn to do something new?  How about painting?  Why not join us at one of the art classes at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.  We have adult painting classes each week on Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. and on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.  The great thing about these classes is that there is no pressure.  You can be an absolute beginner or an advanced painter and still fit right in with our groups.  Everyone works at their own pace.

Jan and The Mermaid

Jan and The Mermaid

Come join us for the fun.  Learn more about art classes here or contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register.  And come create a masterpiece of your own!

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Ethan’s Snow Scene

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CAM05708We had a super art lesson yesterday with Ethan.  He did a terrific job on this little snow scene with barn.  Art Lesson and Classes for young artists ages 7-13 are available.  Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com for appointment times and class schedules.

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Shelly’s Recent Work

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , on January 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Shelly 1 Shelly 2We offer three l adult art classes at the Blue Ridge Arts Council on Wednesdays at 10:30 or 5:30 and Thursday at 5:30.  The classes are 1 1/2 hours and are for beginners to advanced paintings.  You can join the class at anytime as they are ongoing and each student works on a painting of their choice. (Read more about classes here.)  We do all study the same things, however, which is composition and color mixing.   I believe once you learn to mix and see colors you  really become a good painter.

Shelly has been painting with me for a couple of years and she has a terrific eye for color and color mixing.  Here is an example of two of her latest paintings.  We work from photographs and the colorful sunset shows just beautifully colors can be added to a painting.  Great job Shelly.  And the names on the tree is a gift for her son.  What a thoughtful and fun painting.  Keep up the excellent work Shelly!

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