Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, barn, daily painter, daily painting, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries on March 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Fenced in Barn is an oil on canvas panel. This is a piece that we did in art class recently. There are many lessons to be learned on a painting like this from color mixing, shading, perspective, etc. We try to choose ideas that allow the student to gain increased knowledge so that they may advance their painting skills.
If you’d like to join us and paint along, contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com . We’d love to see you in class!
Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Trivia, Virginia Artist on February 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I love impressionism. Many people do. When you ask someone what their favorite painting might be often people will name an impressionist’s work; ie. Monet, Degas, Renoir, etc.
But do you know what invention truly help to develop the impressionist movement of painting outdoors and capturing light and fleeting images? The paint tube! Never would have guess that, right? Before the invention of the paint tube which allowed artists to easily carry their mixed paints in the field they had to use, of all things, pig bladders. Yuck. I’m thinking I would have remained in the studio to paint too.
Miniature Summer Flowers is an oil on canvas panel measuring 3″x7″ and is available for $45.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on February 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Looking East Toward Signal Knob is an oil on canvas panel measuring 4″x6″ and is available for $65.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, mountains, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries on February 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Shenandoah Valley View is an oil on canvas panel measuring 12″x24″. This is a piece I started several years ago and while we’ve been weathered in the past few weeks I’ve taken the time to dig out a few old starts and get them finished.
This one is now framed and on display at Delilah’s. Come by and see it.
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged apple, Art Class, art lessons, Books, daily painter, daily painting, fruit, impressionism, oil painting on February 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Teacher’s Pet is an oil on 9″x12″ canvas panel and is framed and available by contacting me.
I love this painting. We did this a few weeks ago in our Wednesday Night Oil Painting Class. See what you could do if you came and painted with us????
Posted in Abstract, daily painter, tagged Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Virginia Artist on February 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Abstract Dreams I & II are acrylic on Gallery Wrap 1 1/2″ canvas measuring 12″x12″ each. They are SOLD.
I enjoy abstract work and combining colors to see what works together well. It is a lesson in trial and error.
I think these combinations turned out great!
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, New York City, Rockefeller Center, Rockefeller Plaza on February 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
After a week of posting crochet on my blog I’m back to art. But first I want to say thanks to everyone who responded so positively to the crochet. I was shocked! And many thanks to those of you who purchased items. With your encouragement I have taken some things to Delilah’s so if you are interested in hats, slippers, or bags, stop into the shop and take a look.
Now back to art. Rockefeller Plaza is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x18″. This painting began as a lesson for a private student who was interested in doing a “representational abstract” of this view. We had fun working on it. As you can see it was a Christmas view. It is SOLD!
Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Virginia Artist, watercolor on February 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Irish Setter is a watercolor on paper measuring 12″x12″ and is available at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. It is part of the current show at BRAC.
Stop in at 305 East Main Street in Front Royal to see the new show. It features 6 or 7 local artists with a variety of work. It’s a nice show. I have about 7 or 8 dog paintings in it.
Stop in and let me know what you think.
Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on February 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Laura’s Favorite View is an oil on 8″x10″ canvas panel and is available by contacting me.
I paint a great deal from photographs, especially during the winter months when it is difficult to get outside to paint. This view is from a photo that one of my collectors sent to me recently. She said that she has taken numerous shots of this particular scene. It’s one that she enjoys seeing each time she drives by it.
I love it when readers share their photos with me and give me permission to paint from them. I am working on a second painting from the same photo as it has a barn in it and I wanted to do a painting with and without the barn. Stay tuned for Laura’s Favorite View II.
Thursday Trivia revisits a question we just recently answered. Yesterday a record was set for the most expensive piece of art every sold at auction. It is “Walking Man”, a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, a 20th Century Swiss artist. It took just 8 minutes for 10 bidders at Sotheby’s to run the price up to $104.3 million!
Walking Man is a life-size sculpture, 72 inches tall, of a wiry man walking along. The part that amazes me most is that Sotheby’s estimated that it would sell for 12-16 million pounds and it actually went for 65 million! I’d say they were off a little in their estimate. 🙂
Posted in daily painter, tagged Beach, Clouds, daily painter, daily painting, Landscape, Ocean, oil painting on February 3, 2010| Leave a Comment »
I thought with all the snow on the ground (again) that it might be nice to look forward to a warm day at the beach. Today’s painting is called Building Clouds and is an oil on canvas panel measuring 10″x8″ and is SOLD.
Enjoy the warm scene.
And as always, Wednesday is Art Class night. Anyone interested in learning to paint please give me a call and come join us for a fun evening.
The Studio 