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Walking the Dog

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Thurs kids dogsThe Thursday Young Artists painted a pup yesterday.  We call it “Walking the Dog”.  What a wonderful group of painters we have!  Don’t you think?

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Ready for Spring

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Thurs Kids Spring ExplosionAt our young artists class this week we painted a representational abstract of a floral arrangement.  We called it Spring Explosion.  We use brushes but also our fingers to get the abstract effect.  And yes, they LOVED that!  If you have a young artists ages 7-13 contact us and come join the fun.

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Sleeping Jake

Posted in daily painter, Pet Portaits, tagged , , , , , , on March 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Sleeping Jakes new bed Sleeping JakeA 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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Oreo Cows in Art Class

Posted in Art Class, Farm Animals, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on March 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Kids Art CowThe 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. SAMSUNG 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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A Class of Abstracts

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , on February 22, 2013| Leave a Comment »

SAMSUNGAt 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.

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

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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 , , , , , , , , , on February 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

SAMSUNGLast 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 1- Lay in a shape

Step 2- Place some major flower shapes in the vase

Step 2- Place some major flower shapes in the vase

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

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

Step 4 - Finish flowers with details

Step 4 – Finish flowers with details

Cathy's version of the Valentine's Bouquet

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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Golf Today

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , on January 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

GolfToday in history in 1916 the PGA was formed in New York City.  And staying with our golf theme, today in 1995 The Golf Channel began on some U.S. cable systems. Four years later, the world’s first 24-hour golf network was seen in over 30,000,000 homes.  And thank goodness or Allen wouldn’t have anything to watch on TV.  🙂 

 I painted this last year.  It is called GOLF, oil on canvas, 8″x10″, available at Delilah’s.

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Blue Abstracts

Posted in Abstract, tagged , , , , , on January 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

 Interlude in Blue II Interlude in Blue IInterlude in Blue I & II, acrylic on canvas, 12″x12″, available by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com.

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A Barn in Miniature

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

SAMSUNGThis little miniature painting (3″x5″)  was a quick study done as a color demonstration for a student.  Color mixing is most important to learn early on so as to make successful paintings.  We practice color mixing in every class. 

Miniature Barn, oil on canvas, 3″x5″, $25.  Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to purchase.

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Jed’s Day

Posted in Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged , , , , , , , on January 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Jeffie EnhancedFour years ago this past week (January 5th) we made the cold trek (it was during a snow storm) to get our Jed.  He’s the sweetest boy.  So Happy Adoption Day Jed.  We’re so glad we are your people! 

Many of you know that I name my dogs using a presidential theme.  Jed was my first exception to the rule.  He is named for the fictional president, Jed Bartlett from the West Wing.  We loved that show and since he was already being called Jed and answered to it well we just went with it.

Read and see more about Jed here and see a step by step painting of Jed here!  Way to go Jedder Bean!  We love you big boy.

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