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Celebrating 100 Years at Wrigley Field

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Little Known Facts, Travel, tagged acrylic, Chicago Cubs paintings, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter, Landscape, Major League Baseball, Painted Diamonds, painting of Wrigley field, Virginia Artist, Wrigley Field on April 23, 2014| 1 Comment »

Wrigley Field
Home of the Chicago Cubs

Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, turns 100 today.

When asked last year while I was painting the Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds what is my favorite ball park to go see a ball game I said Wrigley Field. If you haven’t been there you really have to go if you like baseball. It’s a ball park – not a stadium. It has an intimate feel about it. According to where you sit you may have to lean around posts to see. I love Wrigley. It’s a great old park.

Happy Birthday Wrigley!

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Touched Up the Geraniums

Posted in Flowers, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painting, flowers, Geranium painting, geraniums, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 17, 2014| 2 Comments »

A few days ago I posted Geraniums in the Window (see it here) and said that I needed to touch it up a little more. I did that last night. I darkened the shadow under the window and added some texture to the wall. Also, I hit the flowers with a little more light. Now it’s finished.

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Play Ball!

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter, Painted Diamonds, Turner Field on April 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Turner Field
Atlanta Braves

Baseball season has started and this year it feels really strange not to be painting the MLB parks like I was doing last year all during the season. My Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds was a lot of fun but kept me busy for 6 months painting those parks. (Read all about it and see the paintings here.)

If you have a favorite team you can check the Painted Diamonds page to see if that painting is still available or order a print of your favorite field.

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The Cookie Jar

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, antique cookie jar, Cookie Jar, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, still life, Virginia Artist on April 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Cookie Jar Painting

I am often asked how I find things to paint every day. I never have any trouble finding something to paint. There are just so many things all around that I want to try to paint. From time to time I will set up an area with my camera and shoot lots of photos of “common” things for reference photos. I recently did this with a cookie jar that had been given to my parents as a wedding gift and that my mom gave to me years ago. I always have fond memories of it because Mama always had it sitting on the breakfast bar in the kitchen with something good in it for us when we got home from school each day. I treasure that cookie jar.

Cookie Jar Reference Photo

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Girl Scouts and Geraniums

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, geraniums, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Speaking to Girl Scouts about art

Yesterday I was asked to speak to a group of Girl Scouts about being a full-time artist. They were a great group of girls who toured the Blue Ridge Arts Council before our session and had several questions about art. I was working on the demonstration painting for our 1st Saturday Paint Party so they watched as I completed the flowers. They enjoyed it so much that they want to come back and do a little painting. So we will meet again later in the month!

I did finish the demo painting for this Saturday’s Paint Party and there are still a couple of seats open if you want to join us and paint this little geranium painting. Contact me today.

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Another Book Painting Completed

Posted in Books, tagged acrylic, book, daily painting, impressionism, Virginia Artist on March 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I did this painting as a demonstration for a kid’s art class (see that here) but I finally went back to it yesterday to finish it up. It will be at Delilah’s if you want to see it up close. 🙂

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1st Saturday Landscape

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!

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Demo to Loosen Up Your Work

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.

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Tea Bag on Purple

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 »

Tea Bag on Purple

Tea Bag on Purple, acrylic, 6″x6″

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Cat

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.