My two young students, Isabella and Charlee, have been doing great with their painting. We meet on Thursdays and there is room in class for other 8-10 year olds. We work with watercolor and acrylics. Just contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com if you have a budding artist who would like to develop more skills.
This painting of the yellow tulips is acrylic on hard board. They come up with great ideas of things to paint and are also open to suggestions that I have for them. We try to explore something different each week from composition, to blending, to perspective, to color mixing. Don’t you think they are doing great?
One of my private students, Charlee, had a school project of a self-portrait to do. So we worked on it last night at her art lesson. I think she did an excellent job. She had to do the work herself. So I helped with paint color suggestions to mix, etc.
Last Wednesday night at Art Class we worked on an acrylic underpainting of a lemon. Instead of oil paint we used acrylic paint and only using black and white we painted the shading that we saw of the lemon.
The final 3rd Thursday Art Walk of the season is tonight from 5 – 8 p.m. in downtown Front Royal. Be sure to come out and enjoy some refreshments and see the artist demonstrating. Delilah’s will have a tent sale as well as demonstrations. And I believe there will be pumpkin carving demonstrations at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Just in time for the season! Come join us. We’ll look forward to seeing you.
After missing several weeks of lessons Isabella is back and we had a lesson last night.
This was my version. We paint along together during the lesson so I always end up with the same thing the student does. I kind of like this one. Reminds me of Georgia O’Keeffe.
Of course, Truman was not impressed. We bore him so after he gets all the attention he can from my student he takes a nap. 🙂
Fog Across the Valley is an oil on canvas panel. This is another piece we did recently in art class. As you may have guessed this week from reading the blog, I finally brought home some pieces we did on Wednesdays in art class and photographed them to post on the blog. I didn’t realize how far behind I had gotten on that! We paint a lot in class. 🙂
Another Fence for Pat is an oil on canvas panel that we did several weeks ago in art class on Wednesday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. I named it for Pat because one of my art students loves to paint fences. We have done several. This one was a snow scene with a fence.
And don’t forget that it is the 3rd Thursday and the Art Walk is tonight from 5 – 8 p.m. in downtown Front Royal. Shops are open late, serving refreshments, and there will be entertainment. Come out and watch artist demonstrating and support the art community.
Here is what we will be finishing up tonight at Art Class. We started this piece last week and just have a few details to add to finish. You can see the photo above the painting. This lesson is a photo from an ad in a magazine. 
Cat in the Window was an art class lesson for the Wednesday Oil Painting class. Here is the start.
And the progression.
And the finished painting. It measures 10″x8 and is an oil on canvas panel.
Sometimes it is good to practice things that are most difficult to paint. And every painter has something that is a challenge. For me it is flowers. They are really difficult to paint without them appearing flat.
Next I add some color, using oil color and a glazing medium, I paint thin layers on top of the tonal study. 
I continue to adjust the colors until I get it to a place I like. Often, once it is at this point, I will set it aside and look at it for several days, deciding what else it needs to complete the painting. 
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