Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, cherry blossoms, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Washington Monument on April 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago the Thursday Kids class painted the “Cherry Blossoms and the Washington Monument”. What a great job! And thanks to my friend Terri who is also an artist who kindly shared her idea for this painting with us. Hope we made you proud Terri.
For more information on classes click here.
Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, MLB, Virginia Artist on April 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Baseball 4
Baseball 3 – SOLD!
Two more baseballs that are painted in acrylic on 6″x6″ gallery wrap canvas and available for $50 each. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com for more information.
Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Major League Baseball, Virginia Artist on April 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Baseball 1
Baseball 2
Baseball is on my mind these days. And while it’s fun to paint the baseball fields as part of my Kickstarter project (Read more about that here) I had fun yesterday painting just a simple baseball. These paintings are acrylic measuring 6″x6″ and are available for $50 each by emailing kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Camden Yards, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Landscape, MLB, Oriole Park, Painted Diamonds, Virginia Artist on April 22, 2013| 1 Comment »
Spent most of yesterday afternoon working on the painting of Baltimore’s Oriole Park at Camden Yards. This is an acrylic on 18″x24″ canvas. It is the second in the series of Major League Baseball’s parks that is part of my Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds. I have less than two weeks now to get the project funded. Click here to learn more and to pledge. Thanks!
Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Baseball parks, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter project, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Landscape, MLB, Virginia Artist on April 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I have just 17 days to go for my Kickstarter Project to get funded and it’s at 71% this morning. Many thanks to everyone who has already pledged to make the project work. Your help is greatly appreciated. I am so anxious to do this project and really want to get it funded. Many people have congratulated me on the project and asked about it and have told me they are not familiar with Kickstarter. Click here to see my project. Here is a little more about how Kickstarter works:
Kickstarter is a way for creative people to get projects funded. You go to the site and read about a project then click on the green button and make a pledge at the level you wish to help. As you read about the project you see that you get rewards for different levels of pledges. So choose your reward and make a pledge. You can help by pledging as little as $1 and every bit adds up to get to the goal of 100%. I must get to 100% for the project to work. Anything less than that and the pledges will NOT be collected. So I’m asking you PLEASE make a pledge today. Help me with this project. As far as we can find no one has ever painted all 30 Baseball Parks and certainly not in 30 weeks. Help make me the first. Thanks so much for your consideration and I’d appreciate it if you share this with your friends by clicking the Facebook or other share buttons below this post. Thanks again.
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Dogwood, dogwood blossom, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »
This is a painting I did last week as an art lesson in an adult class. It’s “Dogwood Blossom“, acrylic on canvas, 11″x14”, available for $125. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on April 9, 2013| 1 Comment »
In 2011 I taught an artist residency with kids at all five elementary schools to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Warren County. We painted a large painting that each school now hangs for everyone to see. Read more about that project here and here.) For that project I painted a sample painting for the kids to see what it was that they would be producing during our time together. In the upper left corner of each painting that the school kids produced they painted their school.
I decided to paint out the school and paint the Government Center on the sample painting and then donate it to hang at the Center. Here is the completed painting. I am meeting Brandy at the Center this morning to hang the painting and I am very happy that they want to hang it right away. I’ll try to have some photos to share soon.
Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball park, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Landscape, MLB, Nationals Park, Virginia Artist on April 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Nationals Park
Washington Nationals
The painting of Nationals Park is about 95% finished. It is the first in the series of 30 Major League Baseball parks I am painting as part of my Kickstarter Project. If you haven’t looked at my project PLEASE take a minute to look and pledge to make the project a reality. Thanks!
Now back to the painting. I often get questions about the process of finishing a painting. The way I work is that I get a painting to a point where I feel like it’s done and then I hang it and live with it so that I can look at it for a while. That way I can see if there is anything that I want to tweak. Maybe there is something that needs to be made stronger or maybe there is something that needs eliminating in order for the painting to work. With this one I am at the “living with it stage”. Now on to paint Orioles Field at Camden Yards.
Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painting, Virginia Artist on April 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »
I love seeing my students finish their paintings. They turn out so good and I love how the other students encourage one another.
Miss Eyeleen finished her barn in her class at The Southerlands yesterday. And Kathy is wrapping up this wonderful beach scene. After all the snow doesn’t it look like a place you would like to be. Great job girls!
Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball fields, daily painter, daily painting, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, Virginia Artist on April 3, 2013| 2 Comments »
I am so excited and so scared at the same time. I launched a Kickstarter project last night so the clock is ticking to make it work. My project is “Painted Diamonds – 30 Ball Parks in 30 Weeks“. I plan to paint every major league ball park between now and the World Series. You can click here to see the project.
If you are new to Kickstarter take a look. They promote their site as a new way to fund creativity. They only accept creative projects. An artist lays out the project, writes it up and submits it for approval. If approved, it launches on the Kickstarter website for the world to see and hopefully to fund.
Funding is all or nothing. If the project doesn’t reach its goal then no money is exchanged. And for whatever amount is pledged a reward is offered.
It sounds confusing but it really is not. Please take a look. I’m asking all my friends and followers to please share this post with your friends. The more people who see it the better chance I have of making it happen. I’ll be updating you as the month goes on. I’ll try not to bore you with it but I want to keep you posted on my progress.
So here we go. I have a month to get the word out. Thanks for your help and consideration.
The Studio 