Posted in Books, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Books, daily painter, impressionism, Virginia Artist on February 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I finally got back to the demonstration painting from the 1st Saturday Paint Party and finished it up. I often start demo paintings while teaching and don’t get back to them to finish because I get busy helping students complete theirs. I like this one and wanted to wrap it up.
The next 1st Saturday Paint Party is this Saturday, March 1 at 4 pm. There are a few spaces left to paint a landscape this time so register today.
Posted in Art Class, Books, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, book painting, impressionism, open book painting, Virginia Artist on February 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
As I continue to work on the book series (I haven’t given up…just been misdirected for a week or so) we decided to paint a book with my young student yesterday. Here is Ethan with a wonderful painting of an open book and glasses. We painted side by side so you see his version on the left, mine on the right and the reference photo above my painting.
We decided a plain background was too dull so we put “wallpaper” on the wall behind our tables. Great job Ethan!
Posted in Books, tagged acrylic, Books, Books still life, daily painter, impressionism, Virginia Artist on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I haven’t forgotten about the book still life I showed the sketch of a few days ago. I finally had some time to lay in some color yesterday.
Here you can see the reference photo at the top, the painting on the easel and the palette at the bottom of the photo. There is still quite a bit to do to it but it’s shaping up nicely.
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism on February 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The boys created these lovely floral paintings in kids class this week. Just in time for Valentine’s Day. If you know of a young person who would like to paint with us just contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register. We meet on Thursdays at 4:15 at the Arts Council.
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.
Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, mermaid, oil painting on February 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Jan’s Granddaughter – The Mermaid
You met Jan last year. She is one of my Wednesday morning students who does a fabulous job painting wonderful things for her family. Here is another mermaid she did for one of her granddaughters. It looks super!!! Great work Janice! Click here to see the last mermaid Jan painted.
Posted in Little Known Facts, Trivia, tagged Berthe Morisot, impressionism on February 3, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Berthe Morisot
French, 1841-1895
“Reading (La Lecture) 1888
I continued cleaning up files this weekend and ran across this one from a museum trip of Berthe Morisot’s wonderful work.
She was one of the few female members of the early Impressionists movement in France. Learn more about Morisot here.
Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Books and Apple, impressionism, Paint Party on February 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
We had a wonderful time at the 1st Saturday Paint Party yesterday. A fun group of ladies created a beautiful still life. Great job ladies.
Reserve your place for the next 1st Saturday Paint Party on March 1st.
Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism on January 31, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Logan with “Eyes”
Hannah with Blue Bird
Logan and Hannah are two students from my “Young Artists” class that have been with me for several years and have moved up to the adult class. They do very well mixing color and working independently on paintings. Here are two that they just completed. Excellent!!!
Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Front Royal VA, Gazebo, impressionism, Paint Party on January 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Adele’s Birthday Party
We had a wonderful group of ladies for Adele’s Birthday Paint Party last night at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Everyone did a fabulous job painting a scene of the gazebo. Terrific work! And Happy Birthday Adele!!!
If you are interested in a paint party you can read more about it here.
The Studio 