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Painting with Middle Schoolers

Posted in Art Class, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Warren County Middle School on September 20, 2011| 2 Comments »

For about 2 1/2 hours yesterday morning and again yesterday afternoon, we had the pleasure of working at the Blue Ridge Arts Council with 13 terrific young artists from Warren County Middle School.

It was a whirlwind of activity from the minute they arrived. They were given their canvas and started painting right away.

I am so grateful that Shelly, one of my adult painting students came to help.

And so did Linda. It would have been near impossible to get as much done as we did without Linda and Shelly working with us.

And a busy day it was. In the few hours that we had those 13 students produced 26 paintings.

Absolutely amazing!!!

Here are a few samples of the wonderful work they did. As soon as the pieces are put together I will be posting the finished works of all of these students. Many thanks again to Kym, Shelly and Linda!

Caitlyn's Town Hall

Spencer's Bear

Elizabeth's Gazebo

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Penguins!

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on September 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Wednesday and Thursday Young Artists painted Penguins!

Great job everybody.

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Final Day of Art Camp

Posted in Art Class, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Our final painting for Art Camp was a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. He did a couple of them…most people only recognize the one.

Here are the kids working on theirs. We got so busy finalizing everything and framing their works for the week that I forgot to take a photo of the final painting. Maybe when the show goes up at the Community Center featuring their works I can get one then. 😦

All in all, we had a fabulous summer of painting and discovered the talent of many young painters in our community!

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Art Camp – Matisse

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Over the ages it has been a common practice for artists to copy famous painters work in order to learn technique, style, and color mixing. Degas, Monet, Renoir, and many of the famous names you will recognize applied and received copiers permission to copy paintings in the Louvre.

Following in their footsteps, our Art Campers are learning about a variety of artists this week by copying famous paintings. They completed their Matisse painting. They turned out great.

Today we will finish up art camp by finishing our Picassos and our Van Goghs! Good job everyone.

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Art Camp Week 5 – Monet’s Poppies

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, poppies, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The final week of Art Camp for the summer began yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.

We started by painting the color wheel and learning about color mixing. Then the young artists went on to learn about Monet and we painted this lovely version of Monet’s poppy field using just the three basic colors – red, yellow, and blue, plus white.

Can you believe they did this with just those colors? Great job guys!

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34 Trees, 2 Private Students and a New Guy in Class!

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on August 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Last week my young artists at Angel’s Korner began painting a larger painting (11″x14″). They made nice progress.

Yesterday they completed their paintings and didn’t they do a really nice job??!!

After leaving my 34 young artists I met with Jacob and Kelsey, my private students from West Virginia who come here to make beautiful art. Their paintings were really great!

Then at regular Wednesday Kids Class we painted a wonderful landscape scene. This is Maggie and Judd. This was Judd’s first lesson with me and he did great. He’s a cute guy and quite a talker and I think he will be a wonderful artist too!

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Van Gogh’s Starry Night by Art Campers

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Van Gogh, Van Gogn Starry Night, Virginia Artist on August 13, 2011| 1 Comment »

The final “Masterpiece” that the Art Campers did during Art Camp was Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

Great job guys! You did beautiful work this week.

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Famous Painters Art Week

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, Virginia Artist on August 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I have been so impressed with the young artists I have met this summer during the weeks of Art Camp that we have been having at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. We have been having loads of fun painting wonderful art.

Today another camp started – Famous Painters week. We started as always with the color wheel and making all these colors just using yellow, red and blue.

Then we painted like the first famous artist we are studying this week, Monet. And we only used those three colors -yellow, blue and red, plus white to create this entire painting.

What do you think? Didn’t they do a fantastic job!!!???

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Matisse Discovered

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Matisse, Virginia Artist on August 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Several weeks ago as I was preparing for Modern Art Camp for the kids I decided I needed to attempt a copy of a Matisse painting since that’s what we would be doing for camp. The one on the left, Lady in a Purple Dress, is the one I did. My Wednesday Young Artists gave it a go too. Charlee is shown her with her beautiful version.