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Chickens in the Road Retreat

Posted in Travel, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, West Virginia on September 17, 2012| 2 Comments »

Andrea, Jessica and Tom

Krista, Sam, Judy, Beth and Krysta

The 2nd Annual Chickens in the Road Retreat

Heather, Nancy, Karin and Bill

was held this weekend at Camp Shepherd in West Virginia. (Remember the painting of the chickens I did for a poster a few months back. See it here.) There were a multitude of workshops to choose from where attendees learned everything from painting to cheesemaking to container gardening to apron making and much, much more. There was a diverse group of life-long learners there taking it all in. And they were from all over the United States and even one from Canada! I taught six classes – three for Canvas Painting and three for Gourd Painting. Most of the students shown here had never painted. And didn’t they do a TERRIFIC job. It was so nice being with all the attendees and helping them develop new talents. Tomorrow we will look at the Gourd Painters!

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Final Week of Art Camp Begins

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The final week of Art Camp started yesterday with a fine group of young painters. And as usual, we started by painting a color wheel. As I told the ones who have painted with me before and already painted a color wheel, you can never paint enough of them. I’ll bet I’ve painted several hundred over the last few years and learn something every time I paint one.

The first painting we did was a landscape in an impressionistic style. And didn’t everyone do a fantastic job? Just wait to see what we do tomorrow!

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Art Campers

Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape on July 31, 2012| 1 Comment »

First day of Art Camp and we painted a color wheel to learn about color mixing and then we did a mountain scene painting. Everyone did a fabulous job!

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3 Paintings of the Dickey Ridge View

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, Travel, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Dickey RIdge, Dickey Ridge View, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah National Park, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Last Thursday I painted at Dickey Ridge. Often when I paint on location I paint at least one painting and sometimes start a second. This particular day I did that plus started a third. Many painters paint multiple canvas of the same subject. Think Monet’s Haystacks and his Cathedrals.

Here are the three paintings I completed from that plein-air outing.

Overlook View from Dickey Ridge I – private collection

These paintings are available by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

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Larry the Lobster

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.

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Painting the Mountains with a New Friend

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.)

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Art Campers Paint

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.