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A Day at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted in Serendipity, Travel, tagged daily painter, impressionism, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Virginia Artist on April 14, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I spent a lovely day yesterday in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I went on a bus trip with a nice group of people who went as a fundraiser for a Relay for Life team and I was told we raised over $500 for them. Yeah!

I went specifically to see the exhibit- Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity. And it was well worth the trip. There were over 80 major paintings of figures clothed in lovely period clothing with actual fashions from the time being shown with the art. It was fabulous! You can read more about it here on the Mets website.

This painting, “In the Conservatory (Madame Bartholome) by Albert Bartholome shows his wife entering a door. Displayed by the painting was the actual dress she wore in the painting. It was fascinating to see.

If you have an opportunity to get to New York before the show closes on May 22nd be sure to stop into the Metropolitan and enjoy this wonderful exhibit.

Tomorrow I will share my FAVORITE!

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Reen’s Birthday Paint Party

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Paint Party, Virginia Artist on April 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I had the most delightful evening leading a Paint Party for Reen’s Birthday. This was a fun group of ladies and they painted some wonderful dogwood paintings. Everyone was so enthusiastic about painting and it came through in their work. Great job everyone….and Happy Birthday Reen!

And the little cutie in the front middle is Cassie. She was the life of the party. 🙂 For more information on Paint Parties click here.

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Luzia’s and the Leadership Class Paints

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on April 12, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Luzia joined our art class last night and this is her first painting. Great job! And the best part, she had a great time. Painting is fun. Why don’t you come join us too.

Yesterday was a day of firsts. I was asked to work with the Front Royal-Warren County Leadership Class during their Art and Tourism Day and they all painted their first landscapes of the mountains and did wonderful work. And they had fun too. I think there is a theme here: PAINTING IS FUN!!!

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Wonderful Artists at The Southerlands

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, fruit, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on April 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Miss Eyeleen working on her Strawberry painting

Miss Gaylor – the Queen of Strawberry paintings

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Donation to Warren County Government Center

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on April 9, 2013| 1 Comment »

In 2011 I taught an artist residency with kids at all five elementary schools to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Warren County. We painted a large painting that each school now hangs for everyone to see. Read more about that project here and here.) For that project I painted a sample painting for the kids to see what it was that they would be producing during our time together. In the upper left corner of each painting that the school kids produced they painted their school.

I decided to paint out the school and paint the Government Center on the sample painting and then donate it to hang at the Center. Here is the completed painting. I am meeting Brandy at the Center this morning to hang the painting and I am very happy that they want to hang it right away. I’ll try to have some photos to share soon.

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Nationals Park

Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball park, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Landscape, MLB, Nationals Park, Virginia Artist on April 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Nationals Park
Washington Nationals

The painting of Nationals Park is about 95% finished. It is the first in the series of 30 Major League Baseball parks I am painting as part of my Kickstarter Project. If you haven’t looked at my project PLEASE take a minute to look and pledge to make the project a reality. Thanks!

Now back to the painting. I often get questions about the process of finishing a painting. The way I work is that I get a painting to a point where I feel like it’s done and then I hang it and live with it so that I can look at it for a while. That way I can see if there is anything that I want to tweak. Maybe there is something that needs to be made stronger or maybe there is something that needs eliminating in order for the painting to work. With this one I am at the “living with it stage”. Now on to paint Orioles Field at Camden Yards.

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Forsythia Means Spring

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Spring is finally peeking out and the kids painted “Forsythia” this week at class. And they did a very nice job! Now come on Spring so we have more flowers to paint.

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Palmer’s First Painting

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on March 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We had a fun art class with kids yesterday. This was Palmer’s first class with me. And didn’t he do a great job on his Capital View painting?! Terrific! And Zach did a wonderful painting as well. That’s Zach behind his painting. His mom won’t let me post his cute face. 🙂

Good job boys. Now what might we do next week?

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Shelly’s Poppy II

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on March 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I shared with you Shelly’s Poppy (Check it out here). Here is the finished painting. Shelly is a wonderful painter with a great eye for color mixing. We’ve been painting together for a couple of years and it’s always lots of fun! Great job Shelly. This is your best yet!