Posted in Abstract, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on July 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Pat’s Favorite is an acrylic abstract, 12″ x 12″, on gallery wrap canvas. From time to time one of my students wants to experiment with abstract. That happened last week in art class so this is the demonstration painting that I did while explaining abstract.
One of my favorite students, Pat (see her here), is not a fan of abstract so I named this for her. 🙂
Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, impressionism on July 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »
There has been so many great photos of students with their art to post lately that I didn’t want to forget to get this one in. Sam just joined my class about a month ago. She is a wonderful young artist and she just completed this beautiful painting of her dog Shadow who just turned one! Great job Sam! Keep up the good work.
Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Paint Parties, painting parties, Virginia Artist on July 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
The terrific thing about painting is that anyone can do it. If you have the desire to paint, you can learn to paint. Paint Parties are a chance to learn something new with a great group of friends. A little food, a little drink, a lot of laughing. And in the end you have a new painting. Why don’t you get a group together for a party of your own?
Last night we had a fabulous group of painters for their second party and look at the wonderful work they did! Super work everyone!!! It was so much fun. Read more about paint parties here.
Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, daily painter, Virginia Artist on July 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Pat
Shelly
Jean
The Wednesday Night Art Class always has a great time. These “girls” have been my longest running art students. Maybe because we have so much fun together. Last night they surprised me with a birthday party. (My birthday was Tuesday, the same as Jed’s. Read here.) Thanks Shelly, Pat and Jean. Even with all the eating, singing and laughing, we still got around to doing some painting. Thanks again!
Posted in Animals, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, monkey, sock monkey, Virginia Artist on June 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »
After having the Art Camp kids all week it was a nice break to only have one young artist in the regular class this week. (Some of my regulars were in art camp.) So she chose a sock monkey to paint. And a really great job she did on him!!!!
Way to go Logan. Keep up the great work!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Dogs, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, poppies on June 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Art Camp, Ages 5-7 with Monet’s Poppies
We had a great day of Art Camp with the young artists painting Monet’s Poppy Field. We talked about Monet (that they like to call Money) and impressionism and they painted these fabulous paintings. Great job!
This was the first time we have offered camp for this young age group and they were great. How can you resist their happy faces when they show off their art.
The Twins with Framed Blue Dogs
Here are the Grady twins (with Gryffin photo-bombing) with their painting of Blue Dog. They brought it back in for me to frame for them. Wonderful!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, Dogs, Virginia Artist on June 18, 2013| 1 Comment »
Art Camp 2013
Session 1, ages 5-7
Art Camp started yesterday with six great young artists. These kids are just 5 – 7 years old and look at what a great job they did on Rodriguez Blue Dog! Super work everyone. Keep it up.
Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait on June 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Ethan and Lincoln
Because of the really stormy weather we had yesterday I only had one young artist come to class yesterday. When this happens I let them choose what they want to paint from the paintings they may have missed in previous classes. Ethan chose to paint Lincoln. And what a great job you did Ethan! Wonderful. You can see what the other artists did with this painting last year by clicking here.
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley on June 13, 2013| 2 Comments »
Pat
Gretchen
Jan
Kathy
I am always so proud of my art students and love sharing their work with you. I often post photos of the kids paintings and forget to take photos of the adults as they finish their paintings. But yesterday it seems that everyone was finishing paintings at the same time so I got some great shots. These are all Wednesday morning or evening students. Keep it up girls. Great job by all!!!
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting on June 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »
We had a good evening at art class. The kids painted a bird nest in a tree. Not the easiest of subject matter and they did a wonderful job.
And Luzia, one of my newest students in Thursday class, completed just her second painting – these wonderful parrots. Great job!
The Studio 