Posted in Landscape, Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Paint Party on February 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The 1st Saturday Paint Party is this Saturday, March 1st at 3 pm at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. This month we will be painting a landscape. There are 2 spaces left in this session so if you are interested in painting with us contact me right away. We would love for you to join us.
Take a look here at last month’s results. Paint Parties are a great way for you to try painting. We provide all the supplies. You just show up and HAVE FUN!
Posted in Commissions, tagged daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, North Carolina scenes, Virginia Artist on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »
If you recall, I had an interesting commission before Christmas from a gentleman to paint three paintings for his family of scenes from North Carolina where they spent time as kids and that had meaning for them. (See the posts for those paintings here, 2nd one here, and the last here.) I got the nicest email from him this past week and he gave me permission to share it:
Posted in Books, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Books, daily painter, impressionism, Virginia Artist on February 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I finally got back to the demonstration painting from the 1st Saturday Paint Party and finished it up. I often start demo paintings while teaching and don’t get back to them to finish because I get busy helping students complete theirs. I like this one and wanted to wrap it up.
The next 1st Saturday Paint Party is this Saturday, March 1 at 4 pm. There are a few spaces left to paint a landscape this time so register today.
Posted in Books, tagged acrylic, Books, Books still life, daily painter, impressionism, Virginia Artist on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I haven’t forgotten about the book still life I showed the sketch of a few days ago. I finally had some time to lay in some color yesterday.
Here you can see the reference photo at the top, the painting on the easel and the palette at the bottom of the photo. There is still quite a bit to do to it but it’s shaping up nicely.
Posted in Abstract, Art Class, Tips for Better Painting, tagged Abstract, abstract art, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, floral, impressionism, pear, Virginia Artist on February 7, 2014| 5 Comments »
Warm-up Abstract
Warm-up Floral
Warm-up Pear
In our Wednesday morning adult art class this week I gave a demonstration on “Loosening up” your paintings. I took a workshop several years ago from Robert Burridge, a terrific California painter and teacher, who taught us to do these warm-up paintings. His idea is to line up 6-8 sheets of watercolor paper and then quickly lay on several colors of paint. They will then all look like abstract paintings. The second step is to paint out anything that doesn’t look like whatever subject you want the painting to be. For instance, in the floral painting shown here I filled in background and added a vase. Then I shaped up a few of the colors to look like flowers and leaves. This entire process, all three of these paintings, took about 20 minutes. This forces a painter to work quickly and loose.
Posted in Cup of Joe/Tea Time, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Tea, tea bag, Virginia Artist on January 18, 2014| 1 Comment »
Posted in Pet Portaits, tagged acrylic, cat, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, pet portrait, Virginia Artist on January 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »
This is a commission that I did for a client who is giving it to her dad for his birthday today. The cat’s name is Cat! This painting is an acrylic on 11″x14″ canvas. I sure hope he likes it.
Posted in Cup of Joe/Tea Time, tagged acrylic, daily painter, impressionism, Tea, tea bag, Virginia Artist on January 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Tea on Blue
Tea Bag on Blue, acrylic, 6″x6″, soon to be available at Shenandoah Confections, Main Street, Front Royal.
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on January 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Mountain Road, NC
The final commission painting in the series of three I just completed is of a winding road through the North Carolina Mountains. Mountain Road, acrylic, 8″x10″.
Posted in Commissions, Landscape, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Montreat NC, Virginia Artist on January 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Valley View of Montreat, NC
This is the second painting in the North Carolina mountain commission series that I just finished.
Valley View of Montreat NC, acrylic, 9″x12″.
The Studio 