Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Residency, daily painter, impressionism, Virginia Artist on March 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The work continued on the sample painting. I started filling in the 12″x12″ squares with elements that I thought I could make work for 4th graders while still making it correspond to the history of Warren County.
Hopefully those of you familiar with Warren County will begin recognizing some of the subjects that I chose: the Courthouse, the Gazebo, the Entrance to Shenandoah National Park…
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, Art Residency, barn, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary, Warren County Virginia on March 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The next step in the process for the Art Residency project was to start sketching out the different elements. And then to paint.
Here you can see the beginning of A. S. Rhodes Elementary school, the Gazebo, the entrance sign to Shenandoah National Park and a barn. Look closely and you will see the Courthouse is sketched in as well.
And today I actually start the project with the kids at A.S. Rhodes Elementary and Hilda J. Barbour Elementary. Can’t wait to meet the 16 kids at each school. Hopefully they will be excited about painting and about the project.
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, Art Residency, daily painting, impressionism, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary, Warren County Virginia on March 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »
As if the “Bark for the Park” series wasn’t a big enough project for this year, I have started another one. I am teaching an art residency at the five elementary schools here in Warren County. We will be painting a piece to depict the 175th Anniversary of Warren County. I’ve had to do quite a bit of research in order to tie the project into the History SOL’s for 4th grade as well as come up with interesting pictures for the kids to paint. Over the next few days I will show the progress of the sample painting that I did. Then, hopefully, I will be able to share the paintings that the kids finish.
The finished painting will be 4’x4′. Each of the 16 students selected at each school will paint one 12″x12″ panel. In order to plan a layout, I laid out a paper drawing with 16 equal squares.
Then I wrote in what I thought would work.
After having the initial design idea in place, I prepared the actual canvas that I would paint the sample on and started laying in printouts of the ideas on the canvas to see if they would work together. It was sort of like a puzzle. Stay tuned for more….
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