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“Doggles”

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged , , , , , on April 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I love a dog in “Doggles”!  So cute.  This sweet girl belongs to a childhood friend of mine in Georgia.  Adorable!!!

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North Entrance, Shenandoah National Park

Posted in daily painter, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I was asked if I ever have time to paint since I have been teaching so much lately.  And the answer is yes!  Of course, with the Anniversary project I did with the 4th graders I painted a sample painting so their were about a dozen different subjects that I worked on so that I could simplify subjects for them to paint.

This painting is a spin-off of that.  I painted North Entrance, an acrylic on 20″x30″ canvas, for the current show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Park.  You can see it at BRAC for the next month.  There is some lovely work in the show.  Take the time to stop in and take a look.

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Tiger Cubs Painting Class

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago one of the moms of one of my Thursday Young Artists asked if I might teach her Tiger Cub scouts a lesson in color mixing and painting. 

Last Wednesday, we held that class.  Here they are working on their painting.  That’s my friend Shelly helping me with the large group.

They were very enthusiastic and seemed to really enjoy painting.  The only mishap was when I accidentally dropped a paint brush on one boys head when I was trying to help him.  No permanent damage, just a little green paint in his hair.  Oops!

They did a terrific job…eight beautiful paintings of the mountain and river!

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Spring Trees in Bloom

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , on April 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The Young Artists groups painted Spring Trees in Bloom last week at their classes.  They all did great work.  And aren’t we glad spring has sprung!

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Gazebos Galore!

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged , , , , , on April 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Over the past two weeks the Wednesday and Thursday young artists classes painted the gazebo.  Didn’t they all do a fabulous job???!!!  I can’t get over how great these students paint.  Good job everyone.

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E. Wilson Morrison Elementary Painters

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , on April 6, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The students at E. Wilson Morrison were great painters and very enthusiastic about the painting project.

And they did an excellent job on their painting, don’t you think?

A group of wonderful young artists and volunteers.  Good job!!!

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Leslie Fox Keyser paints…

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 4, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The students at Leslie Fox Keyser Elementary School hard at work on their paintings.

Raymond and Julie do a great job painting the school portion of the collage.

Super job everyone! 

Doesn’t painting look like fun???!!!

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Just One More Day….

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Pet Portaits, tagged , , , , , , , , , on March 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Just one more day to the Opening Reception of the “Bark for the Park” Art Show & Sale to benefit the Off-Leash Dog Park. 

Several really good pieces of news have come my way this past week.  First, Hickory, the Scottish Deerhound who won the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this year will be in attendance as our guest of honor.  She believes in the off-leash park!  🙂

This is a painting that I did of Hickory this weekend.  I thought she should have her portrait included among the other 46 dogs on display for the show. 

The reception is from 5 – 7 p.m. at the Warren County Community Center.  Please come out and invite all your friends to see the plans for the new dog park.

The second piece of good news is that several paintings have already sold!!!  Yeah!  The proceeds from sales at this show go to the dog park.  Thanks to everyone who has already made a purchase to support the park.  Of course, you can make a donation to the park without buying a painting.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Day 2 Art Residency

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , on March 22, 2011| 1 Comment »

I gave the students an overview of the project and then they began painting.

We numbered the 16 – 12″x12″ canvases that made up the 4’x4′ painting.  The students drew numbers to see which canvas they got to paint.

My friend and student, Shelly, came to help the kids with their paintings. 

Kym Crump of the Blue Ridge Arts Council helped too!

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The Completed Painting

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , on March 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

 

As I got to this stage it got harder for me to find things that I thought I could make work for the 4th grade students.  Even some of the ones I had chosen to this point seemed a little difficult but I know they can do it.

And finally, I finished the piece.  Well, not really as I am still fiddling with little parts of it here and there.  I’ll show a final, final version next week. 

The school in the upper left corner of this painting is A. S. Rhodes.  As I work with each of the schools, we will paint their school into the picture.  Since the paintings will become part of a permanent display at each school it was only fitting that each school be depicted by the students.  The paintings size is 4’x4′. 

Next week I’ll show you how A.S. Rhodes and Hilda J. Barbour’s students work turned out.  I have been working with them all this week.  🙂

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