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Chickens in the Road Retreat

Posted in Travel, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, West Virginia on September 17, 2012| 2 Comments »

Andrea, Jessica and Tom

Krista, Sam, Judy, Beth and Krysta

The 2nd Annual Chickens in the Road Retreat

Heather, Nancy, Karin and Bill

was held this weekend at Camp Shepherd in West Virginia. (Remember the painting of the chickens I did for a poster a few months back. See it here.) There were a multitude of workshops to choose from where attendees learned everything from painting to cheesemaking to container gardening to apron making and much, much more. There was a diverse group of life-long learners there taking it all in. And they were from all over the United States and even one from Canada! I taught six classes – three for Canvas Painting and three for Gourd Painting. Most of the students shown here had never painted. And didn’t they do a TERRIFIC job. It was so nice being with all the attendees and helping them develop new talents. Tomorrow we will look at the Gourd Painters!

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Kathy’s Sunflower

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, art lessons, sunflower on September 13, 2012| 1 Comment »

Meet Kathy. She started taking classes with me on Wednesday mornings just a few months ago and she’s doing GREAT! She painted this delightful little sunflower last week in just one class. Good job Kathy. It’s beautiful.

Join us for art class on Wednesday morning from 10:30-Noon or Wednesday or Thursday afternoon from 5:30-7 p.m. We’d love to have you paint with us. Just email me at kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com for more information.

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A Bird House Gourd

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, Gourd, gourd painting, impressionism on September 12, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Here’s another sample gourd that I will be taking to the workshop I am teaching this weekend. This one is a “bird house”. 🙂

I patterned it after one that my mom painted for me over 20 years ago. I treasure it since we lost her to cancer not long after. It was fun painting one in a pattern like she had used.

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Gourds!

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, Gourd, impressionism on September 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I worked on painting gourds! This weekend I will be teaching 6 workshops in West Virginia at the “Chickens in the Road” Retreat. Three will be on canvas painting and three on gourds.

Here is a sample of a sunflower gourd. Today I am working on a couple of other samples. More to come…

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Living with Art

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on September 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I was thrilled to see at The Barnes Collection that Dr. Barnes hung his art the same way I do…ceiling to floor…mixing artists and styles. He felt that there was much to be learned by having paintings and styles side by side to study them. I have long felt the same way.

I hang my art along with other artists that I have collected. It helps me to improve my own work.

I think that living with art surrounding every day help me helps me to see what I want to become as an artist.

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Stinkin’ Lincoln Painted by Kids

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait, Rescue dogs, Virginia Artist on August 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday afternoon at out Kids Painting Class we painted Lincoln.

Lincoln would love this, of course, because he loves being the center of attention!

And didn’t Logan and Sam do fabulous jobs on their paintings.

And they did this is just one hour. WOW!

Just for a point of reference, this is the photo we used and my demo painting. I didn’t get finished with mine yet. But I will get to it. 🙂

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Drip Art

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, Drip art, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

As you know, I work with kids art classes on Wednesday and Thursday at 4:15 at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. And while I attempt to complete a painting, a still life, a landscape, etc., almost every week, this is what they would love to do. Drip paintings or splatter art is one of their favorites. This is a piece I did on wood with them several weeks ago. They love to just drip the paint and see what happens.

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Warhol Eagle ….and Flamingo?

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, Eagle, flamingo, Warhol on August 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The final day of the final week of Art Camp this summer saw us finishing our Warhol Pop Art paintings. Half of the group painted the Warhol Eagle and the other half painted a flamingo in the pop art style of Warhol.

We had a fabulous week of painting. And the favorite part of every art camp week for the kids is the Artist Trading Cards.

Each young artist paints a small painting, the size of a trading card, and then exchanges them with their fellow artists. It’s a nice memento of their week with new friends.

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Van Gogh Sunflowers

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, sunflower, sunflowers, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh, Virginia Artist on August 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Thursday at Art Camp we worked on a Van Gogh. Since we’ve done Starry Night in the past we decided to something else that Vincent is well-known for, Sunflowers. And didn’t these kids do a great job! Just beautiful.