Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, art lessons, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 24, 2012| 1 Comment »
This is a painting that I have done four times in the past few weeks. It is a good painting for art lessons. It works for young painters as well as more experienced ones.
You can see here that Rachel painted it recently. And so did Jacob. 
He’s my youngest student. He did a great job with his painting too.
Posted in daily painter, Travel, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, larry the lobster, oil painting, Vacation, Virginia Artist on July 23, 2012| 2 Comments »
Quick Editor’s Note: Larry the Lobster is now on display at the Blue Ridge Arts Council at 305 E. Main Street until October. Stop in to see him.
Meet Larry the Lobster. I ate him. Well, I ate him several months ago on my trip to Newport. He was delicious. Now he’s just a memory, a memory in paint. Larry the Lobster, oil on canvas, 9″x12″, available by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .
This is Larry before I devoured him. I have to say, he was VERY good! Larry I am grateful for your sacrifice.
Posted in Art Class, tagged art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This is Rachel. Her grandparents live in Front Royal and when she visits she often takes an art lesson with me. Yesterday we painted together and she worked in oil for the first time. What a terrific job Rachel. Can’t wait until we paint together again!
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, impressionism, Small Town Life, The Southerlands on July 21, 2012| 2 Comments »
One sunny day last week I took the paintings that the ladies at The Southerlands had completed in the last few months outside to give them a good coat of varnish. There were a BUNCH of them. I love going up there on Tuesday’s to work with these fun ladies. They always make me smile.
I guess that is why I was so shocked when I went a few weeks ago and learned that one of my favorite students, Miss Inge, had passed away. It was sudden and unexpected. She had never painted before we started and she just loved what she created.
This is one of Inge’s last paintings. I will miss her smiling face and wonderful little Jewish sayings. She never let me squeeze out too much paint. “We shouldn’t waste”. I can hear her saying it now with a big, sweet smile on her face and twinkle in her eye.
Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on July 20, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday morning my friend Linda and I went up to Dickey Ridge Visitor Center to do a little plein air painting. This was my set up and view to paint.
As often happens when I paint on location, curious onlookers will ask questions or comment on the painting. And yesterday I met a really nice family from India, now living in Dubai.
Their daughter, Kiara, was very interested in what I was doing so I showed her and even asked her to help. She took the brush and help put a little paint on the canvas.
Kiara’s parents watched. Her grandmother was there too. They had flown into Canada and were touring the U.S. for a month. What fun! I’m glad they stopped at Dickey Ridge while we were there painting.
And then they were gone. I had to finish the painting all by myself.
So Kiara, here it is. Our painting almost done.
Anyone interested in purchasing this or any painting can contact me at kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com . It was a great morning of painting outdoors. (And thanks Linda for snapping the shots of me and Kiara.)
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia Artist on July 18, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Posted in Art Camp, Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Starry Night, Van Gogh on July 14, 2012| 1 Comment »
At the end of Art Camp week we always paint a “masterpiece”. This week it was Van Gogh’s Starry Night and we painted it on a 16″x20″ canvas. You can see how large it is with the young artists holding their finished work. What a fabulous job they all did. Don’t you love it.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, barn, Cezanne, daily painter, impressionism, Matisse, post-impressionism on July 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Day 3 of Post-Impressionism Art Camp had us painting a copy of one of Cezanne’s Still Life with Apples. The young artists did a fabulous job with color mixing.
Then we did a quick miniature painting of a barn and even framed it.
Day 4 we spent almost the entire morning working on a copy of Matisse’s Red Fish. I love Matisse and while it was the hardest painting we have done in camp so far, the young artists did GREAT! For the final day of camp we are doing our “masterpiece”, an extra-large painting of Van Gogh’s Starry Night. I’ll share it with you in the next post. Stay tuned!
This energetic group of young artists are doing splendid work!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on July 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Art Camp started this week with three enthusiastic painters, Isaac, Mia and Peyton. The first thing we painted was the color wheel while we learned about color mixing.
Next we painted a mountain landscape scene to learn more about paints, brushes, canvas, and palettes.
This week our emphasis for study is Post-Impressionism so we paid homage to Boudin with a copy of his “Two Dogs in the Street”.
And Gauguin’s “The Siesta”.
Can you believe we did all of us this in just two days?
Stay tuned to see what other lovely paintings these young artist make before the end of the week.
Posted in Sale, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Sale, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to purchase a sale painting.
Butting Heads, oil on canvas, 8″x10″, SALE PRICE: $50 (Reg. Price $185)
Eastham Weathervane, oil on canvas, 12″x9″, SALE PRICE: $65 (Reg. Price $225)
South Beach II, Oil on canvas, (9″x12″) SALE PRICE: $50 (Reg. Price $195) SOLD!
South Beach I, Oil on canvas, (9″x12″) SALE PRICE: $50 (Reg. Price $195) SOLD!
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