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Dog Day at The Studio

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged dog, Dogs on November 5, 2015| 1 Comment »

Gretchen with Lincoln and Jed

Lucky on the stoop at The Studio

Hannah and Hershey

Seems that it was Dog Day at The Studio yesterday. I took my boys to work for the morning art class and of course, they were all over everyone. Gretchen made the mistake of sitting down on the floor so Lincoln tried to show her that he is really a lap dog.

Then Lucky came to bring his “sister” to kids class. Sometimes he likes to walk her to class and pick her up. I guess just to be sure she’s safe. With a face like that he does scare off a few folks but he really is just a big sugar lump!

And then finally for the evening adult class Hannah brought her sweet little Hershey to class. She enjoyed all the treats and loving she got from everyone there.

All in all a really good dog day at The Studio!

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Pets, Pets, Pets

Posted in Paint Party, Pet Portaits, tagged cats, Dogs, pet portrait, private party on September 13, 2015| 1 Comment »

Yesterday I helped a delightful group of women from the Conservation Research Center paint their pets. And paint they did! Each one did a fabulous job painting their dogs and cats. They look great.

They said they will be back soon to paint some of the wonderful animals they work with at the CRC. Can’t wait for that!

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Pet Portrait Commission Completed

Posted in Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait, Shenandoah Valley Artist, Virginia Artist on March 13, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Completed Pet Portrait

Reference photo

Last week I posted about working still as a Daily Painter and showed you a couple of paintings that I was working on. (See that here.) Here is the completed pet portrait that I was working on in that post. It’s all framed and ready for pick-up Saturday and it will be headed to its home in Memphis, Tennessee!

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Still Daily Painting

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Farm Animals, tagged art lessons, chicks, daily painter, Dogs, farm animals, fruit, hen, Rescue dogs, Shenandoah Valley Artist, still life, Virginia Artist on March 7, 2015| 5 Comments »

An idea for an upcoming Retreat painting that is just sketched in

A Pet Portrait commission in progress

An art class demo that needs just a little more work

I get questions all the time about “daily painting”. The most often asked is “Do you paint every day?” And the answer is “almost”. When I first joined the daily painting movement I did paint every day. And I completed a different small painting everyday….for a long time. I did this for about 4 years. Then I started working on larger paintings and while I painted every day I didn’t complete one each day.

But then I started offering other types of classes besides painting so it required me to create in other formats (like crocheting, multi-media, etc.) to prepare for classes so now my answer is that I create something everyday. It may not always be a painting like it was in the beginning but I do something creative each and every day.

Right now I have a couple of paintings that I am working on that still need a little work to be finished. Here are a couple. You will hopefully see the finished paintings soon.

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Happy Birthday Lincoln!

Posted in Dogs, Serendipity, tagged Dogs, pet portrait on February 12, 2015| 4 Comments »

Stinkin’ Lincoln

Lincoln looking handsome in a blue sweater

It’s Lincoln’s Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Stinkin’ Lincoln!!!

Six Years Old!!!!

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Pet Portraits!

Posted in Animals, Dogs, Paint Parties, Pet Portaits, tagged cat, Dogs, impressionism, Paint Party, pet portrait on January 18, 2015| Leave a Comment »

We had a great time with the “Paint Your Pet’s Portrait” Party yesterday. Great work!

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Birch Trees and a Teaching Assistant

Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Dogs, impressionism, Landscape, The Studio, The Studio-A Place for Learning on January 8, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Kid Birch Paintings (with Daisy)

Demo Birch Painting

Miss Daisy Visits

Daisy with Chewie Treat

The kids painted some beautiful “Birch Trees at Night” in their class yesterday. Super work! They look great.

And I had a teaching assistant at all my classes yesterday. Daisy is a one-year-old Westie who is a neighbor’s pup. They had to go out-of-town on an emergency last Sunday night and so Daisy came to stay with us. She is an adorable, sweet little girl…but make no mistake she is ALL terrier…full of life and mischief! We are enjoying her.

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Sketch of Walker

Posted in Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged Chocolate Lab, daily painter, Dogs, pet portrait, sketch on January 6, 2015| Leave a Comment »

Sketch of Walker

Reference photo of Walker

I did this little sketch of Walker, my niece Lex’s old Chocolate Lab that died this past year. He was a wonderful old boy and she grew up with him.

I want to do a little portrait of him and will hopefully get that done soon for her. He was wonderful.

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More Fabulous Gifts

Posted in Paint Parties, Pet Portaits, tagged cat, Dogs, Paint Party, pet portrait on December 27, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Here are more fabulous Christmas gifts that some of my students made for their family and friends over the last few months.

I am sure these were BIG hits! Great job everyone.

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Handmade Gifts – Pup Pillow!

Posted in Embroidery, tagged Dogs, hand embroidery on December 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Completed pillow

Original Photo

I worked with several people this month to create handmade gifts for family members. It was a lot of fun but of course, I couldn’t post photos because we didn’t want to spoil the surprises. But now I can share! 🙂

Diane made this lovely hand embroidered pillow for a family member. It’s a photo of their cute little dog. And didn’t it turn out fabulous???!!!! Great work Diane. I can tell they loved it!

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