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Sleeping Jake

Posted in daily painter, Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait, Virginia Artist on March 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A few months ago, my friend Jen posted a picture of her sweet boy Jake with his new bed. I just loved it so I asked if I could paint it. Here is my version along with the original photo. The painting is acrylic on 12″x12″ canvas. I love working with unusual angles and compositions like this. I have painted Jake before with his sister Juneau. You can see that by clicking here. Thanks Jen for giving me such sweet subject matter to work with this week. (And this painting has sold! Yeah!)

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Sculpting a Dog

Posted in Dogs, Sculpture, tagged daily painter, Dogs, pet portrait, sculpting dog, sculpture, Virginia Artist on March 12, 2013| 1 Comment »

For several years now I have wanted to learn to sculpt. But I haven’t had any luck finding a class or instructor in my area so I just decided to give it a go myself. Last night while watching tv I started playing with this sculpting clay that I had and just kept working til this dog came out. 🙂 I think I would really like sculpting if I had the right materials. I am hoping to get some soon and try to do a few more pieces. I would really like to have some instruction and then I just want to play with it for a while. But for a first attempt I kind of like it!

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Oreo Cows in Art Class

Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, belted galloway, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Oreo cow, Virginia Artist on March 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

The kids painted a nice landscape this week with a Belted Galloway. It’s from a photo I took when in Newport a few years ago. I love these Oreo cows. They looks so cool. Good job kids with your paintings!

Here is my painting (right) along with the reference photo on the left. I swear these cows don’t even look real with their funny coloring!

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Hello Snow Dog!

Posted in Animals, Dogs, Pet Portaits, Small Town Life, tagged daily painter, Dogs, pet portrait, Shenandoah Valley, snow dog, snow sculpture, Virginia Artist on March 7, 2013| 1 Comment »

Snow Dog

Mamie with Snow Dog

Well, we got a total of 15 inches of snow at our house yesterday. They were calling for 12-24 inches so I consider us lucky! They were so certain it would be a great deal of snow that we had both The Weather Channel and The Today Show’s Al Roker broadcasting from our little town of Front Royal, VA.

Lincoln kissing Snow Dog’s nose

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Busy Beavers on the Shenandoah River

Posted in Animals, Small Town Life, tagged Beaver, beaver lodge, daily painter, Shenandoah River on March 3, 2013| 2 Comments »

Over the past few months while walking the dogs down the path at Eastham Park to get to the dog park we have noticed several trees along the river that were down. A month or so ago while Allen was walking with me he said it looked like a beaver had been working. So yesterday I took a couple of photos of their handiwork. Beavers are the second largest rodent in the world but they sure look a lot cuter than rats! They build lodges and apparently that is what they are doing at the river. Beavers are herbivores preferring the wood of cottonwood, alder, birch, maple, and also pondweed and waterlilies. There used to be many more beavers but having been trapped for their fur numbers are down from a high of some 60 million to around 12 million. (More on beavers here.) So far we haven’t actually seen a beaver but we look every day and maybe we will see one soon. In the meantime we have to be happy to just see their handiwork. This is one of the things I love about walking down to the dog park. You never know what you may see down by the river.

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The Ibis

Posted in Animals, daily painter, Travel, tagged acrylic, bird, birds, daily painter, Ibis, impressionism, Virginia Artist on March 1, 2013| 1 Comment »

Ibis in the Making 1

Ibis in the Making 2

Ibis in the Making 3

The Ibis is a long-legged wading bird with down curved bills often found in Florida. They are also known as the hurricane bird as they are generally the last to leave an area before a hurricane arrives and the first to return. I saw many of them on my recent visit to Florida but this reference photo comes from Cousin Linda who posted it recently on her Facebook page. Thanks Linda for the inspiration.

Ibis, acrylic on canvas, 36″x18″, $265.

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Janice at Work

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Camp, Art Class, daily painter, Virginia Artist on February 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Last week when I wrote about of abstract painting in class (Check it out here.) there was one student who I did not picture and I sure didn’t want to leave her out. Janice works mainly from family photographs and she does a terrific job. Currently she is working on a painting of her dad with his grandson. As you can see here it is an adorable composition. Keep up the great work Janice!

And for those of you who are curious, you can see that everyone works on a painting of their choice in class. Not only will you develop your painting skills but you will have a painting of your choosing. Come join us. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com for information or to sign up.

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A Class of Abstracts

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on February 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »

At the Wednesday morning Adult Art Class Kathy came in with this large canvas and an idea for a large representational abstract. She hasn’t tried abstract before so we all decided to try something different.

The other Cathy in the class also painted a representational piece with a floral design.

My painting was a non-representational abstract painting. It reminds me of Easter so I decided to call it that. Easter is an acrylic on canvas and measures 18″x24″. While everyone thinks that abstract is easy and anyone can do it, to be successful it requires some thought and planning.

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Valentine’s Bouquet – Two Interpretations

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Serendipity, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, oil painting, roses, Valentine's bouquet, Virginia Artist on February 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Last Thursday, Valentine’s Day, one of my students brought this lovely bouquet of flowers to me at class. So we immediately set it up on the table and put a solid paper behind it to make it work for us as a painting.

Step 1- Lay in a shape

Step 2- Place some major flower shapes in the vase

Step 3- Continue developing the flowers and work in a background

Step 4 – Finish flowers with details

Cathy’s version of the Valentine’s Bouquet

And the final photo in this post is Cathy, my thoughtful student who gave me the flowers and this is her version of the same bouquet. This is a great example of how different things look when you are sitting just a few feet apart but looking from a different angle. Every painter’s interpretation is different. Thanks again Cathy for the beautiful flowers.

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Kids Paint O’Keeffe

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Calla Lily, daily painter, flowers, Georgia O'Keeffe, O'Keeffe, Virginia Artist on February 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Georgia O’Keeffe, well-known for her very large paintings of flowers, said, “I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.”

Last week one of my longtime art students requested that we paint an O’Keeffe flower. We chose the Calla Lily. And didn’t the kids do a wonderful job with their interpretation?!

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