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Renoir Ends the 1st Week of Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Girl with Watering Can, impressionism, Landscape, Renoir on June 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp Week 1
copy of Renoir’s Girl with Watering Can

The first session of Art Camp ended yesterday with the young painters completing a beautiful copy of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s, (1841-1919) “Girl with a Watering Can” , painted in 1876 and now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, (1841-1919)
“Girl with a Watering Can”
oil on canvas
41”x29”
Painted in 1876
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

These artists were not deterred by the large size we decided to paint our “masterpiece” and they all did extraordinary work. Great job girls! It was a pleasure painting with you this week.

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Monet’s Irises

Posted in Art Camp, Flowers, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Claude Monet, impressionism, Monet, Monet's Lilac Irises on June 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

“Monet’s Lilac Irises”

Art Camp yesterday had us painting our version of Claude Monet’s , (1840-1926) “Lilac Irises”, painted in 1914-17.

Claude Monet, (1840-1926)
“Lilac Irises”
oil on canvas
32”x36”
Painted in 1914-17
Private Collection

The young artists made terrific renditions of Monet’s work. He would be proud!

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More with Manet – Asparagus Please

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, asparagus, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Manet on June 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp Week 1
Manet’s Asparagus

We continued to study Manet at Art Camp yesterday. This time it was his still life – Asparagus.

The young artists made it look easy as they created their versions of Manet’s original.

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Art Camp Begins with Manet

Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Manet on June 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Art Camp Week 1
Painting 1 – Manet

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
“Pinks and Clematis in a Crystal Vase”
oil on canvas
22” x 14”
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

Yesterday we had the first day of Art Camp. With 7 fabulous young artists working hard all morning they created their version of Edouard Manet’s (1832-1883) “Pinks and Clematis in a Crystal Vase”, oil on canvas 22″x14″, painted in 1882 in Paris and currently on display at Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

I think their versions look GREAT! How about you?

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Great Week for Student Art

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel on June 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kids Paint Bella

Bella’s reference photo

Pat and Jean Painting

We had a great week with in our art classes.

The young artists painted their version of Bella, a sweet little Cavalier King Charles Spaniel that belongs to my friend Joanne.

Pat completed her Cardinal on the Fence Post.

Jean made a lot of progress on her beach scene. And Shelly continued her painting.

We all have so much fun painting and laughing in our classes.

Shelly at work.

Good job everyone!

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Paint Party Rowboats

Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, Paint Party, Rowboat on June 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Rowboat Paint Party

We had a terrific group at the Paint Party yesterday who painted Rowboats. Great job!

The next Paint Party is a “Paint Your Own Pet Portrait” party on June 21st at 3 pm. Sign up soon to join us.

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Super Student Work!

Posted in Art Class, Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley on June 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Emily’s VW Bus

Kids Paint Florals

Dr. Who Paint Party

The students have produced some fabulous work over the last few weeks. Here are a few that have been completed recently. You can learn more about our weekly art classes here.

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Kids Paint Lavender Fields

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, lavender fields, painting of lavender on May 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kids Paint Lavender

The kids painted “Lavender Fields” in class this past week much like the painting I posted a few days ago. (See it here.) Great job young artists! Keep up the good work.

Don’t forget that time is closely approaching for the start of Kid’s Art Camp this summer. There are several different weeks offered so their it something for everyone ages 5 – 18. Take a look here at more information and a Flyer for Kids Summer Art Camp Final 2014.

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Jase

Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, duck, farm animals, impressionism on May 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago a friend posted a photo of her duck, Jase, on Facebook. I immediately asked her if we could paint the photo in our kids class and she gave us permission.

The kids did a great job painting Jase’s portrait. Don’t you love it??? Good job everyone. I’ll bet Jase would like them.

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Catching up with the Kids Art

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape on April 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kids Paint Penguins

Kids Paint Landscape with Old Barn

I haven’t posted the kids work in the last few weeks so I wanted to catch up with them. They are doing beautiful work (and learning something too)! We have had a few new students join us. If you have a young artist have them join us on Thursday afternoons at 4:15.

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