Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, Hopper, impressionism, Virginia Artist, Warhol on August 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »
As we wind down toward the end of “Famous Painters Art Camp” week the young artists completed their Hopper painting yesterday. They did a fantastic job with all the detail work on this one.
And then we started our final painting of the week – Warhol’s Shoes! More tomorrow on those…
Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, daily painter, Farm Animals, tagged Abstract, abstract art, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on August 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »
My Wednesday Adult Class was jealous that I had only posted my young artist’s paintings recently so they posed for me last night. Here’s Pat with her terrific painting of Jack and Pokey. And Shelly is hiding behind the lovely door painting that she is working on this week. Nice job ladies.
And here are the young artists with their finished Jackson Pollack inspired drip painting. Excellent!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, fruit, impressionism, Manet, pollack, Virginia Artist on August 1, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday at Art Camp we studied two very interesting artists, Edouard Manet and Jackson Pollack. That is the beauty of these combination weeks, we compare really different types of art.
Here are the “Lemonheads”! The girls painted copies of Manet’s “Lemon Still Life”. They did a great job!
And then we started working on a Jackson Pollack like drip painting. The young artists really LOVED this part. We went to the park so we could spread out and work with really thin paint.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape on July 31, 2012| 1 Comment »
First day of Art Camp and we painted a color wheel to learn about color mixing and then we did a mountain scene painting. Everyone did a fabulous job!
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, art lessons, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 24, 2012| 1 Comment »
This is a painting that I have done four times in the past few weeks. It is a good painting for art lessons. It works for young painters as well as more experienced ones.
You can see here that Rachel painted it recently. And so did Jacob. 
He’s my youngest student. He did a great job with his painting too.
Posted in Art Class, tagged art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This is Rachel. Her grandparents live in Front Royal and when she visits she often takes an art lesson with me. Yesterday we painted together and she worked in oil for the first time. What a terrific job Rachel. Can’t wait until we paint together again!
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, impressionism, Small Town Life, The Southerlands on July 21, 2012| 2 Comments »
One sunny day last week I took the paintings that the ladies at The Southerlands had completed in the last few months outside to give them a good coat of varnish. There were a BUNCH of them. I love going up there on Tuesday’s to work with these fun ladies. They always make me smile.
I guess that is why I was so shocked when I went a few weeks ago and learned that one of my favorite students, Miss Inge, had passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She had never painted before we started and she just loved what she created.
This is one of Inge’s last paintings. I will miss her smiling face and wonderful little Jewish sayings. She never let me squeeze out too much paint. “We shouldn’t waste”. I can hear her saying it now with a big, sweet smile on her face and twinkle in her eye.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on July 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Art Camp started this week with three enthusiastic painters, Isaac, Mia and Peyton. The first thing we painted was the color wheel while we learned about color mixing.
Next we painted a mountain landscape scene to learn more about paints, brushes, canvas, and palettes.
This week our emphasis for study is Post-Impressionism so we paid homage to Boudin with a copy of his “Two Dogs in the Street”.
And Gauguin’s “The Siesta”.
Can you believe we did all of us this in just two days?
Stay tuned to see what other lovely paintings these young artist make before the end of the week.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, art lessons, color wheel, daily painter, Virginia Artist on July 2, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Can you believe it’s July already? The summer is flying by. Don’t wait any longer. Sign up now for art camp…only 4 weeks left! Your young artist will learn about the color wheel as well as various styles of painting while creating a beautiful work of art every day.
Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register. Here is what is available:
Week 2: July 9-13, Post-Impressionism
Week 3: July 16 – 20, 2012 – Modern
Week 4: July 30 – August 3, 2012 – Famous Painters
Week 5: August 6 – 10, 2012 – Combination of styles
There is only a couple of spaces left in the last two weeks so be sure to register today. You can read more about art camp here.
Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, Golden Retriever, impressionism, pet portrait, Rescue dogs, Virginia Artist on June 26, 2012| 1 Comment »
This is Jacob. He is one of my private students. He’s 6.
A few weeks ago I asked him what he wanted to paint next and he said Buffy. Buffy is his old golden retriever. Buffy is almost twice as old as Jacob and you can tell he loves her.
So we painted Buffy. It took two lessons and he did a terrific job. I love helping young artists paint their pets.
The Studio 