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Little Acorns

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 28, 2012| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago one of my students brought in these acorns for us to paint.  Last night the kids class did just that.  Didn’t their acorns turn out great?  Good job everyone!

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Stinkin’ Lincoln Painted by Kids

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 24, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday afternoon at out Kids Painting Class we painted Lincoln.

Lincoln would love this, of course, because he loves being the center of attention! 

And didn’t Logan and Sam do fabulous jobs on their paintings. 

And they did this is just one hour.  WOW!

Just for a point of reference, this is the photo we used and my demo painting.  I didn’t get finished with mine yet.  But I will get to it.  🙂

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Drip Art

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

As you know, I work with kids art classes on Wednesday and Thursday at 4:15 at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.  And while I attempt to  complete a painting, a still life, a landscape, etc.,  almost every week, this is what they would love to do.  Drip paintings or splatter art is one of their favorites.  This is a piece I did on wood with them several weeks ago.  They love to just drip the paint and see what happens.

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A Perfect Day

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , on August 9, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Wednesday was almost the perfect day at Art Camp.  We worked on a pointillism piece as the students learned about a different type of art. 

And the Adult Class joined us later in the morning.  Jeff brought Breeze with him to class and she was the most popular one in the class.  All the kids loved her and gave her cookies.  She’s such a great dog! 

 

But the best part of the day for me was first thing this morning before Art Camp started when Maggie brought me this painting that she did for me!  I love it!  Thanks so much Maggie.  You ROCK too!

 

 

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A Day with Matisse

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , on August 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday’s art camp focused on Henri Matisse.  I love the brilliant colors and definite style of his work and I think the kids enjoyed it too!

Maggie and Isaac are working on their paintings and  you can see Anastasia in the background hard at work.

And here is Peter and Anastasia working away.

 

 

Jade and Teaghan work on mixing just the right color to make it perfect!

Good job everyone.  Now tomorrow we will show you our attempt at Pointillism.

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Final Week of Art Camp Begins

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The final week of Art Camp started yesterday with a fine group of young painters.  And as usual, we started by painting a color wheel.  As I told the ones who have painted with me before and already painted a color wheel, you can never paint enough of them.  I’ll bet I’ve painted several hundred over the last few years and learn something every time I paint one.

The first painting we did was a landscape in an impressionistic style.  And didn’t everyone do a fantastic job?  Just wait to see what we do tomorrow!

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Warhol’s Shoe at Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , on August 4, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday was the last day of “Famous Painters Art Week” and we completed our final painting – Warhol’s Shoes.  These girls did a great job all week with their paintings and I think they learned a lot about art and art equipment.  Good job Tanner, Emma, Teaghan, and Mia!

Just one more week of art camp remains this summer…starting Monday.

 

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Hopper and Warhol

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , , 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…

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Lots of Artists!

Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, daily painter, Farm Animals, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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!

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Art Campers Paint

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , 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.

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