Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, Chickens in the Road, daily painter, farm animals, Farm Mural, impressionism, Landscape, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on August 29, 2011| 1 Comment »
We started today with blank white block walls….
And soon there there was sky….
And mountains….
And a meadow and trees….
And Linda painted a cat, Spice, in the tree.
We still have lots of animals to add but it’s really coming along.
Then after dinner I got my second wind and painted the other cat, Sugar, in the mailbox. Can you say special delivery??!!!
Posted in Art Class, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 27, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Our final painting for Art Camp was a version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. He did a couple of them…most people only recognize the one.
Here are the kids working on theirs. We got so busy finalizing everything and framing their works for the week that I forgot to take a photo of the final painting. Maybe when the show goes up at the Community Center featuring their works I can get one then. 😦
All in all, we had a fabulous summer of painting and discovered the talent of many young painters in our community!
Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Over the ages it has been a common practice for artists to copy famous painters work in order to learn technique, style, and color mixing. Degas, Monet, Renoir, and many of the famous names you will recognize applied and received copiers permission to copy paintings in the Louvre.
Following in their footsteps, our Art Campers are learning about a variety of artists this week by copying famous paintings. They completed their Matisse painting. They turned out great.
Today we will finish up art camp by finishing our Picassos and our Van Goghs! Good job everyone.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged abstract art, acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, daily painter, Virginia Artist on August 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »
This week’s theme at Art Camp is a combination of several types of art. Yesterday at Art Camp we talked about Modern Art. We began painting a Matisse. You see Tyler here working on his.
Once we got the Matisse to a good place, we went on to work on a Picasso. (It is Modern Day, after all!)
Here is the young artists at work on their “masterpiece”!
Stay tuned and the finished paintings will be posted.
Great job everyone. Let’s keep up the good work!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, poppies, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The final week of Art Camp for the summer began yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.
We started by painting the color wheel and learning about color mixing. Then the young artists went on to learn about Monet and we painted this lovely version of Monet’s poppy field using just the three basic colors – red, yellow, and blue, plus white.
Can you believe they did this with just those colors? Great job guys!
Posted in daily painter, Furniture, tagged acrylic, daily painter, flowers, Furniture, impressionism, one-of-a kind furniture, painted furniture, poppies, sunflower, Virginia Artist on August 22, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Over the last few weeks I have been experimenting with different designs and ideas for painted furniture.
Here are the first two offerings. They can be seen in person at Delilah’s on Main Street in Front Royal. Your choice of The Poppy Coffee Table or the Sunflower Cabinet (SOLD to a Georgia Collector!) is available for $125. Email kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com for more information.
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Farms and Barns Show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council opened last night with a good crowd coming in to see it.
Here is my Oxbow Sunflowers along with my four Thursday young artists version of the same scene. It looks great hanging all together.
I also have a display of Farm Animals hanging for this show. They look pretty good altogether like this.
Stop by BRAC to see these and all the other nice paintings of Warren County.
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, barn, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary, weathervane on August 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Eastham Weathervane, acrylic on canvas panel, 12″x9″. On display at Blue Ridge Arts Council “Farms and Barns of Warren County” show beginning today.
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Oxbow Farms, Rockland, sunflower, sunflowers, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Oxbow Sunflowers is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x30″. (SOLD) It was painted for the show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council that opens this Thursday called “Farms and Barns of Warren County” to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the county. It will be available at the show this week.
This is painted combining two photos taken by the owner of this Rockland farm showing the brilliant large sunflowers that took over the landscape there this summer.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Van Gogh, Van Gogn Starry Night, Virginia Artist on August 13, 2011| 1 Comment »
The final “Masterpiece” that the Art Campers did during Art Camp was Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
Great job guys! You did beautiful work this week.
The Studio 