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Walking the Dog

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on March 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The Thursday Young Artists painted a pup yesterday. We call it “Walking the Dog”. What a wonderful group of painters we have! Don’t you think?

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The Southerlands Ladies Paint

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on March 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Miss Gaylor”

“Miss Bobbie”

Yesterday at The Southerlands Miss Gaylor and Miss Bobbie finished their paintings. Didn’t they do a fine job? And this was Miss Bobbie’s first painting. She loved the palm tree. (Thanks Linda C. for giving us permission to paint your tree.) Both paintings turned out great. Can’t wait to see what 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.

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Shelly’s Poppy

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Virginia Artist on March 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Shelly worked on the background leaves of her poppy painting at Wednesday evening Adult Art Class. This is a wonderful painting. Great job Shelly. Anyone else wanting to paint, come join us. We have a great time and learn something new each week.

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Oreo Cows in Art Class

Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, belted galloway, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Oreo cow, Virginia Artist on March 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The kids painted a nice landscape this week with a Belted Galloway. It’s from a photo I took when in Newport a few years ago. I love these Oreo cows. They looks so cool. Good job kids with your paintings!

Here is my painting (right) along with the reference photo on the left. I swear these cows don’t even look real with their funny coloring!

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Janice at Work

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Camp, Art Class, daily painter, Virginia Artist on February 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Last week when I wrote about of abstract painting in class (Check it out here.) there was one student who I did not picture and I sure didn’t want to leave her out. Janice works mainly from family photographs and she does a terrific job. Currently she is working on a painting of her dad with his grandson. As you can see here it is an adorable composition. Keep up the great work Janice!

And for those of you who are curious, you can see that everyone works on a painting of their choice in class. Not only will you develop your painting skills but you will have a painting of your choosing. Come join us. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com for information or to sign up.

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Tips for Better Paintings: Value Scales

Posted in Art Class, Tips for Better Painting, tagged Art Class, art lessons, Value, Value Lesson, Value scale, Virginia Artist on February 23, 2013| 4 Comments »

One of the first things I talk about in my art classes (and then I harp on about it continually) is that it is so important to use a variety of values in your paintings. Most new painters tend to work in the middle values. In other words, if you look at a value scale of 1 -10 (light to dark) most people paint in the range of 4 thru 7. And if the blues, yellows, greens, reds, etc. that you use are all in that middle range then your painting will appear flat. You MUST get some really light and really dark values into each painting for it to be successful. And the way to do this is to practice.

I was reading through a Walter Foster Publication called The Daily Book of Art and found an interesting quote. Joseph Stoddard said that his friend and artist Marilyn Simandle told him that “color gets all the credit, but value does all the work”. I couldn’t have said it better myself. 🙂

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A Class of Abstracts

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on February 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »

At the Wednesday morning Adult Art Class Kathy came in with this large canvas and an idea for a large representational abstract. She hasn’t tried abstract before so we all decided to try something different.

The other Cathy in the class also painted a representational piece with a floral design.

My painting was a non-representational abstract painting. It reminds me of Easter so I decided to call it that. Easter is an acrylic on canvas and measures 18″x24″. While everyone thinks that abstract is easy and anyone can do it, to be successful it requires some thought and planning.

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Valentine’s Bouquet – Two Interpretations

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Serendipity, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, oil painting, roses, Valentine's bouquet, Virginia Artist on February 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Last Thursday, Valentine’s Day, one of my students brought this lovely bouquet of flowers to me at class. So we immediately set it up on the table and put a solid paper behind it to make it work for us as a painting.

Step 1- Lay in a shape

Step 2- Place some major flower shapes in the vase

Step 3- Continue developing the flowers and work in a background

Step 4 – Finish flowers with details

Cathy’s version of the Valentine’s Bouquet

And the final photo in this post is Cathy, my thoughtful student who gave me the flowers and this is her version of the same bouquet. This is a great example of how different things look when you are sitting just a few feet apart but looking from a different angle. Every painter’s interpretation is different. Thanks again Cathy for the beautiful flowers.

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Kids Paint O’Keeffe

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Calla Lily, daily painter, flowers, Georgia O'Keeffe, O'Keeffe, Virginia Artist on February 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Georgia O’Keeffe, well-known for her very large paintings of flowers, said, “I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

Last week one of my longtime art students requested that we paint an O’Keeffe flower. We chose the Calla Lily. And didn’t the kids do a wonderful job with their interpretation?!

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