Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Chicago White Sox, impressionism, Landscape, MLB, U S Cellular Field, Virginia Artist, White Sox on July 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »
U. S. Cellular Field
Chicago White Sox
U. S. Cellular Field is the home of the Chicago White Sox. It is number 14 in the series of 30 that I am painting and the only field painted as a night scene. This field is distinguished by the “exploding scoreboard” that shoots off fireworks after a home run or a win and it is topped by spinning pinwheels.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Claude Monet, daily painter, impressionism, Lady with Umbrella, Landscape, Monet, Virginia Artist on June 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Art Campers with “Monet”
Waiting for Varnish
We wrapped up session 3 of Art Camp with a wonderful Monet painting of the Lady with the Umbrella. We worked on it for two days and these young artists did brilliant job. I am sure their families are excited about the outstanding art that these artists produced this week at Art Camp.
If you have a young artist check out the remaining dates of Art Camp here.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Degas, Dogs, Edgar Degas Horse, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on June 26, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday the Art Campers painted their version of Degas’s Horse and Dog. They did a marvelous job. These young artists can PAINT!!!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Renoir, Renoir's Blue Cup, still life on June 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »
As I promised yesterday, here are the Art Campers with their version of Renoir’s Blue Cup. Great job everyone!
Today we work on a Degas Horse scene.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Georgia O'Keeffe, impressionism, oil painting, Seashell on June 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Session 2 of Art Camp started yesterday with young artists (age 14-18) painting a Georgia O’Keeffe Seashell. We discussed her work as well as talked about differences in oil and acrylic paints. We did this one in oil.
Fabulous!!!
And these girls worked so quickly that we were able to do a little miniature landscape also. I love how we all painted from the same reference photo but all got a little different look. Great job!!! Tomorrow we work in acrylics and we’ll be visiting Vincent. 😉
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, Atlanta Braves, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, MLB, Turner Field, Virginia Artist on June 20, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Turner Field
Atlanta Braves
Turner Field, home of the Atlanta Braves, is the 13th field in the series of Major League Baseball parks that I have painted for the Kickstarter project. The Braves are my team. I grew up in Georgia and we were Braves fans. We went to Florida for Spring Training to watch them each year. We suffered when they had bad seasons and celebrated those good years. And while I went to more games at Fulton County stadium than I have at the newer Turner Field I look forward to seeing more here. It’s one of those really large stadiums that has the feel of a small baseball field.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, Dogs, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, poppies on June 19, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Art Camp, Ages 5-7 with Monet’s Poppies
We had a great day of Art Camp with the young artists painting Monet’s Poppy Field. We talked about Monet (that they like to call Money) and impressionism and they painted these fabulous paintings. Great job!
This was the first time we have offered camp for this young age group and they were great. How can you resist their happy faces when they show off their art.
The Twins with Framed Blue Dogs
Here are the Grady twins (with Gryffin photo-bombing) with their painting of Blue Dog. They brought it back in for me to frame for them. Wonderful!
Posted in Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Long Green, oil painting, Plein Air, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on June 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago I shared with you my day at Long Green where I went to paint with other artists for an upcoming show that will benefit Blue Ridge Hospice. (Read more about it here.) I completed one of the paintings that I started that day. When I get more details about the show I will pass it along.
Long Green, oil on canvas, 9″x12″.
Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, Houston Astros, impressionism, Landscape, Minute Maid Park, MLB on June 15, 2013| 1 Comment »
Minute Maid Park
Houston Astros
Completed Minute Maid Park, home of the Houston Astros. This is the second domed field in the series that I’ve painted. To see all the paintings that are done so far in the Painted Diamonds series click here.
Posted in Art Class, Dogs, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Dogs, impressionism, pet portrait on June 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Ethan and Lincoln
Because of the really stormy weather we had yesterday I only had one young artist come to class yesterday. When this happens I let them choose what they want to paint from the paintings they may have missed in previous classes. Ethan chose to paint Lincoln. And what a great job you did Ethan! Wonderful. You can see what the other artists did with this painting last year by clicking here.
The Studio 