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Important Lesson – Caring for Brushes

Posted in Tips for Better Painting, tagged Caring for Brushes, daily painter on September 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

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My art students will appreciate this one. During my art classes I try to give my students tips to help them be better painters and sometimes those tips are not just about how to put a brush to canvas. They also include things about supplies and caring for equipment. The one thing I say the more than any other involves leaving brushes is solution. It is one of my biggest pet peeves. NEVER leave a brush standing in turpentine or water even for a few minutes. It bends the tips and ruins the brush. It is so much better to swirl the brush in the solvent and then lay it flat until you pick it up to use again. And when finish with your painting session clean your brushes well with brush soap and again, lay them flat to dry. Taking care of your equipment is part of painting. If you clean your brushes after each session they will last a long time.

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Painting at Peebles

Posted in daily painter, Tips for Better Painting, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Peebles, Shenandoah Valley, Vineyard, Virginia Artist, Virginia Wine, Virginia wineries, Wine, wine glass on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Carley, my helper

Doing Grandma’s make-up

Making progress

Adding the wine

Putting in details

I get invited to paint at special events from time to time. A good friend of mine is manager at Peebles here in town and invited me to paint there for a special promotion they were doing last spring. They had me back this weekend. I painted a larger version of a small painting (Virginia WIne I, see it here) that I did a few weeks ago and I enlisted a helper. Often, when painting on location, I invite kids to “help” me. And usually they jump right in. This little girl was so much fun. She helped me paint for a while and then she did her grandmothers make-up at a table they had set-up for people to try out some new things. Adorable.

Virginia Wine II, is acrylic on canvas, 18″x24″ and is almost finished. I still have a little more to do to it but we got a great deal done at the event.

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Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Comerica Park, daily painter, Detroit Tigers, Landscape, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on September 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Comerica Park
Detroit Tigers

Number 26 in the series of 30, Comerica Park is the home of the Detroit Tigers. It is one of only two modern ball parks that feature the dirt strip between home plate and the pitcher’s mound. (The other being Chase Field.) Beyond the outfield is a beautiful view of the Detroit skyline. The scoreboard at Comerica features two large tigers on top and when a home run is scored their eyes light up and growls are played on the loud speakers.

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Winners Announced

Posted in daily painter, Serendipity, tagged daily painter, Virginia Artist on September 22, 2013| 2 Comments »

Yesterday the winners were announced in the “Best of Awards” for 2013. I am thrilled to be named Best Local Artist!

Thank you to everyone who voted. I appreciate your support so very much.

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Milwaukee Brewers’ Miller Park

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Major League Baseball, Miller Park, Milwaukee Brewers, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Miller Park
Milwaukee Brewers

Miller Park, home of the Milwaukee Brewers, is number 25 in the series of 30. And it has a retractable roof. The left field corner features Bernie’s Dugout, where the Brewers mascot, Bernie Brewer resides. At the beginning of the game, after every Brewers home run, and if the Brewers win, fireworks go off and Bernie slides down his slide.

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Virginia Wine

Posted in daily painter, Tips for Better Painting, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, red wine, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia Wine, Virginia wineries, wine glass, winery on September 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Virginia Wine” complete

Step 1 – A sketch and laying in the sky

Step 2 – Adding distance with mountains and meadow

Step 3 – Adding middle distance – vineyards

Step 4 – Adding the foreground – a table and glass

I did this painting that I call Virginia Wine for a special request this week. It is an acrylic on 6″ x 8″ canvas.

As I painted it I tried to take photos because several of you have told me that you enjoy seeing how the paintings develop. So here you are:

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Coors Field

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Colorado Rockies, Coors Field, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Major League Baseball, MLB, Virginia Artist on September 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Coors Field
Colorado Rockies

Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, in Denver, Colorado features a center field bleacher area known as the “Rock Pile”. And the seats beginning at Row 20 on the Upper Deck are purple indicating the city’s one mile elevation point.

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Winding Down a BIG Project

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Kickstarter project, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, MLB, Painted Diamonds, Virginia Artist on September 14, 2013| 2 Comments »

The last few weeks I have been feeling a lot of pressure to finish the last few ball park paintings in the Kickstarter Painted Diamonds project. There are only a few more to go. What I did this past week was start several and work on parts of each every day. I find this is more interesting at this point in the project. Yesterday was spent painting, painting, painting. And that is the plan for this weekend too!

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A Painting of Kloe

Posted in Art Class, Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, Art Class, cat, daily painter, impressionism, interior, kitten, pet portrait, Virginia Artist on September 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

One of the things I love about Facebook is all the terrific photos that my friends post…especially those of their pets. And I am lucky that my friends are kind enough to give me permission to paint from their photos when I ask. That happened this week with my friend Sonja and her new kitten Kloe. She posted this adorable photo of Kloe looking out the window and the kids class painted her yesterday. GREAT job everyone! I love it.

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You are Invited to a Paint Party!

Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, floral, flowers, impressionism, Paint Party, Virginia Artist on September 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I have been offering private Paint Parties to groups for some time now. And boy, are they fun! Now you have an opportunity to attend a Paint Party without having to put your own group together. On the first Saturday of each month from 4-6:30 p.m. we will have a Paint Party at the Blue Ridge Arts Council in Front Royal. All you need to do is make a reservation by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com . These parties are for everyone, whether you have painted before or not. All supplies are provided. And at the end of the party you will have a beautiful work of art as well as some new friends. So invite some friends and come join me for a Paint Party on October 5th from 4-7. Cost just $30. These are some samples of what we will be doing at the first party. It’s a Floral Paint Party!