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A New Painting and a Party I Missed

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Dogs, tagged Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Landscape, Lincoln's mess, mess, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on September 17, 2010| 1 Comment »

The Red Pottery Barn is an oil on canvas measuring 9″x12″. This is a painting we are working on in our Tuesday afternoon class. It should be finished soon.

Last night I returned home after being gone for just two hours to teach my Thursday evening art class and this is what I found. Apparently Lincoln had a little party while I was away. The sad thing is that all of this “stuff” was up on shelves or on the table when I left. I don’t know how a dog with those short legs can get things from that high up. UGH!!!

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Taking a Break

Posted in Dogs, tagged Dogs, Small Town Life on September 7, 2010| Leave a Comment »

I took a break from painting over the long holiday weekend. I mainly worked at the shop, Delilah’s, and enjoyed time with friends and the boys.

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Finally….

Posted in Dogs, Sale, tagged daily painter, Dogs, Sale on August 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Just because my computer didn’t have internet connection for three days didn’t mean the boys had to stop playing. They have still been hard at playing! But I haven’t been able to play, or work, or anything! It is amazing how lost we are now without internet connection. YIKES!

But now it’s fixed. And because it happened at the end of my Dog Days of Summer Sale I am extending the sale prices until Wednesday. Please scroll back through the offerings and let me know if you would like any of the paintings listed at these sale prices by contacting me a kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com . And tomorrow we will begin posting new paintings. 🙂

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Roses by the Door

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 23, 2010| 2 Comments »

Roses by the Door is an oil on canvas measuring 12″x12″ and is available for $195 framed. This is the second in the House and Garden series of paintings. (Click here to see the first one.)

Thanks to everyone who sent good wishes for Lincoln. He is a little sport, that’s for sure. To answer a few questions that came in about him:

I think (and my vet agrees) that he is a Dachshund/Airedale Terrier mix. Not sure how that happened but it must have involved a ladder.

And we think he is about 1 year to a year and a half old so we have given him Lincoln’s birthday in February. Appropriate for him!

And he must be a painter because when I got home from art class last night he had turned over a trash can and dug out a piece of palette paper that I had thrown out that had oil paint on it and he painted a rug and the hardwood floor. Maybe I should have named him Picasso!

But how can you get mad at that face…

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Newest Family Member – Lincoln

Posted in Dogs, tagged Dogs, Virginia Artist on July 22, 2010| 5 Comments »

Meet Lincoln. He is the newest addition to the Walker household. Jed was lonely all by himself so we started looking a few weeks ago for a new baby to bring home. After searching for a little girl, it turns out that Jed like boys better. 🙂

Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln Walker) formerly known as Griffon at our shelter, was a stray picked up by animal control. He was at our shelter, the Humane Society of Warren County, for about a month before we couldn’t resist and brought him home on Sunday. He and Jed have been playing very hard since then. It’s so nice that they play well together.

Tug of War is a really fun game. And now I don’t have to always be the one playing with Jed. Yeah!

Lincoln went to the vet on Tuesday for neutering. I know people have mixed feeling about this but I think it is the responsible thing to do unless you have show dogs. He seems none the worse for it. The problem is keeping him from playing too much until he is healed.

We think he is about 1-2 years old so we split the difference and are saying he’s one and a half. And boy he is still a puppy! Hopefully that will calm down soon. Wish us luck.

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South Beach Chairs & Jed’s Birthday

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged Beach, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, Hilton Head Island, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 9, 2010| 1 Comment »

South Beach Chairs is an oil on canvas panel measuring 9″x12″ and is available for $165. This is one of the paintings that I did on location last week at Hilton Head and I just wrapped it up yesterday.

And today we wish Happy Birthday to Jed! He’s 3 years old. Good boy!

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Hollyhocks Mountain View

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on June 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Hollyhocks Mountain View is an acrylic on canvas panel measuring 10″x8″ available for $195 framed. This painting can be seen at the new Main Street Bookstore along with several other paintings.

I haven’t painted as much over the last week as I would like. It’s been a difficult few weeks with loosing Truman and then Jed got injured over the weekend when he had a run in with a truck! He’s doing ok but is very sore. He’s getting a little better everyday but I’m playing puppy nurse again and that takes quite a bit of time.

This is Jed in his little thundershirt…he’s scared of thunder on top of his injury and with the weather we have been having in the afternoons it just compounds the need for a “nurse”. It’s always something.

Just a reminder that the 3rd Thursday Art Walk is tomorrow evening from 5-8 p.m. in downtown Front Royal. And at 5:30 the reception for the Blue Ridge Arts Council member show will take place. Come to BRAC and check out the 80 new pieces of art that local members have entered. Winners will be announced around 6:15. Please come downtown and enjoy the arts!

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Been Away for a Day or Two

Posted in Dogs, tagged Dogs on June 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Jed’s been laying around a little depressed this week so we went to the cabin for a couple of nights. We are both feeling better after the tough week we had last week so I will have new paintings to post tomorrow.

Thanks to everyone for your kind words and cards about the loss of Truman. We are still missing him so much but know he is better off where he is. Thanks again.

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Company Comes

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged company, daily painter, Dogs, family, overnight guests on June 7, 2010| 1 Comment »

My niece Morgan and sister-in-law Debbie rolled in Saturday evening for an overnight. They go to their cottage in Maine for the summer and my house is half-way along the route so I am the wayside stop for them. 🙂 Jed is thrilled it works out that way as you can see he and Morgan have a mutual admiration society going.

Their little dog Tam, a Westie, and two cats, Star and Stripes, are with them too. Tam is a cute little guy but has had a couple of health issues and he has been licking his leg. His mean mama, my sister-in-law, puts a cone on his head to make him not lick at night. He looks pitiful.

While Tam had the cone on head, he came into my bedroom and looked into the bathroom and saw himself in the mirror and started growling and barking….and wouldn’t stop. He thought that dog looked weird too! Poor little Tam. Hopefully his leg will heal soon and he won’t have to be a conehead any longer.

Jed and I will be looking forward to the return trip in August. On the return they will stay a few nights and maybe Tam won’t be a conehead any more!

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Truman

Posted in Dogs, tagged daily painter, Dogs, Virginia Artist on June 2, 2010| 9 Comments »

We said goodbye to Truman yesterday. He has been a part of our family for 11 years. We got him when he was just 5 1/2 weeks old. He was the cutest little puppy.

He had so many funny little quirks. He would take his dog biscuits and hide them. Then bark at them until someone came to find them and gave them to him again. He did this every day. And every day, there I would be on my hands and knees scratching through the back of the closet, or under the bed, or in a corner under a rug to find his “cookies”.

He also like to play a silly game that we called “Where’s Truman” where he would get up on the bed and bark until you came in to see him. Then we would throw the blanket over his face and say, Where’s Truman? This could go on for several minutes until he was satisfied that he had gotten enough attention.

I know Truman had a great life. We were good to him. But we got so much in return from him. Even with his quirkiness he was a great dog. He was the life of the party. He loved everyone he met and had a great disposition.