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The Great American Ball Park

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Cincinnati Reds, daily painter, daily painting, Great American Ball Park, impressionism, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on September 3, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Great American Ball Park
Cincinnati Reds

The 22nd ball park in the series of Painted Diamonds is The Great American Ball Park – home of the Cincinnati Reds. See all the paintings in the series here.

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Ethan and Logan Paint Geraniums

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painting, flowers, geranium on August 30, 2013| 1 Comment »

Yesterday’s Young Artists class painted geraniums. Ethan and Logan did a great job with this painting. Super work guys. Keep it up!

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George’s Goat

Posted in Farm Animals, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, goat, goats, impressionism, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

George’s Goat, oil on canvas, 8″x6″, available for $135. After taking the workshop last weekend on “Painting Animals” it reminded me that I need to paint more animals for the Farm Animal series that I did several years ago. (You can see more about it here.) Many of these have sold so I need to come up with some more of these cute faces to add to the series. Stay tuned….next, a Llama!

Goat Reference Photo

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Philadelphia Phillies

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Citizens Bank Park, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, MLB, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Phillies, Virginia Artist on August 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Citizens Bank Park
Philadelphia Phillies

Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies, is the 21st ball park that I have painted in the Painted Diamonds series.

It features a giant Liberty Bell that lights up, rings and swings back and forth!

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More Sunflowers

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, sunflower, sunflowers, Virginia Artist on August 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Logan with Sunflowers

Reference Photo

I took so many wonderful sunflower photos while I was out painting on Thursday morning that I had to share them with my students. Logan painted this wonderful landscape from one of the photos at Young Artists class. Great job!

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Plein Air Sunflowers

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, Tips for Better Painting, tagged daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Oxbow Farms, Plein Air, Shenandoah Valley, sunflowers, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Set-up to Paint

Sketch

Sky and Distant Mountains

Distant Trees and Meadow

Foreground Greens

Sunflowers – Painting about 90% complete

View from Easel

Beauty in Sunflowers

Yesterday I had the most wonderful morning painting “en plein air” at Oxbow Farm. There is the most beautiful field of sunflowers there that just needed to be painted. I tried to take step by step photos to share today of one of the paintings that I did. When I work outside I can usually get a painting about 85-90% finished and then after a day or two of letting the paint “rest” I will complete it in the studio.

I call this “Oxbow Sunflowers 1“. It is an oil on canvas measuring 9″x12” and is available framed for $275.

Being outside and painting sunflowers was such a treat after painting all the ball parks I have been doing the last few months. It was a nice break.

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Mountain Painting Demo for New Student

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Here is a demonstration painting that I did last week with a new art student. Often I get questions about how I teach new students. What I try to do is just help them “jump right in”. We start with a simple painting like the one shown here but it is detailed enough that they can get the feel of the paints and brushes and what they will do. I think the hardest thing for most new painters is to just get started. They don’t know where to begin. By having them follow along with me as I paint they see exactly what to do and how easy it can be. If you have ever wanted to paint you CAN paint. Just get started. Take the leap. Join us at art class on Wednesdays or Thursdays at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. You Can paint!

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Dodgers Stadium

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Dodgers Stadium, impressionism, Landscape, Los Angeles Dodgers, MLB, MLB Ballparks, Virginia Artist on August 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Dodgers Stadium
Los Angeles Dodgers

Dodgers Stadium, home of the Los Angeles Dodgers, is number 20 in the series of 30 Major League Ball Parks. I’m 2/3rds of the way finished with the project.

Dodgers Stadium is known for it’s no gimmick and simple ball park design.

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Painting Hangs at the Government Center

Posted in daily painter, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Warren County Virginia on August 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Back in April I posted about the Anniversary painting that I did with the elementary schools and that I had given the sample painting to the County to hang at the government center. (Read more here.) I said then that I would get some photos to post of how it turned out so while I was at the Center this week I snapped a couple of shots.

It hangs at the entry to the Planning office. I am amazed at the number of people who tell me they have seen it there.

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Kansas City Royals

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Baseball parks, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kansas City Royals, Kauffman Stadium, Major League Baseball, MLB, Virginia Artist on August 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Kauffman Stadium
Kansas City Royals

Number 19 in the series of 30 is Kauffman Stadium – home of the Kansas City Royals. The stadium is known for having the largest privately funded fountain in the world, a 322 foot fountain and waterfall on display before and after the game and in-between innings.

All the paintings in this series are acrylic on canvas measuring 18″x24″.

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