Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, Chickens in the Road, daily painter, farm animals, Farm Mural, impressionism, Landscape, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on August 29, 2011| 1 Comment »
We started today with blank white block walls….
And soon there there was sky….
And mountains….
And a meadow and trees….
And Linda painted a cat, Spice, in the tree.
We still have lots of animals to add but it’s really coming along.
Then after dinner I got my second wind and painted the other cat, Sugar, in the mailbox. Can you say special delivery??!!!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, poppies, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The final week of Art Camp for the summer began yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.
We started by painting the color wheel and learning about color mixing. Then the young artists went on to learn about Monet and we painted this lovely version of Monet’s poppy field using just the three basic colors – red, yellow, and blue, plus white.
Can you believe they did this with just those colors? Great job guys!
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Farms and Barns Show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council opened last night with a good crowd coming in to see it.
Here is my Oxbow Sunflowers along with my four Thursday young artists version of the same scene. It looks great hanging all together.
I also have a display of Farm Animals hanging for this show. They look pretty good altogether like this.
Stop by BRAC to see these and all the other nice paintings of Warren County.
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, farm animals, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on August 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Last week my young artists at Angel’s Korner began painting a larger painting (11″x14″). They made nice progress.
Yesterday they completed their paintings and didn’t they do a really nice job??!!
After leaving my 34 young artists I met with Jacob and Kelsey, my private students from West Virginia who come here to make beautiful art. Their paintings were really great!
Then at regular Wednesday Kids Class we painted a wonderful landscape scene. This is Maggie and Judd. This was Judd’s first lesson with me and he did great. He’s a cute guy and quite a talker and I think he will be a wonderful artist too!
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Oxbow Farms, Rockland, sunflower, sunflowers, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on August 16, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Oxbow Sunflowers is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x30″. (SOLD) It was painted for the show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council that opens this Thursday called “Farms and Barns of Warren County” to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the county. It will be available at the show this week.
This is painted combining two photos taken by the owner of this Rockland farm showing the brilliant large sunflowers that took over the landscape there this summer.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on August 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
One of the artists that we studied this week for Art Camp was Van Gogh. And yesterday we began our “Masterpiece” painting – a 16″x20″ Starry Night painting. It won’t be finished until after today’s class. But earlier in the week we also talked about Van Gogh and we painted a sunflower. Here is the first of our homage to Vincent! Great job guys!!!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, Virginia Artist on August 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I have been so impressed with the young artists I have met this summer during the weeks of Art Camp that we have been having at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. We have been having loads of fun painting wonderful art.
Today another camp started – Famous Painters week. We started as always with the color wheel and making all these 
colors just using yellow, red and blue.
Then we painted like the first famous artist we are studying this week, Monet. And we only used those three colors -yellow, blue and red, plus white to create this entire painting.
What do you think? Didn’t they do a fantastic job!!!???
Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, barn, daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, farm animals, Farm TOur, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Warren COunty on August 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
During the Farm Tour last May I took lots of photos of Barns and Farms for the upcoming show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. I have painted several including this one of a horse stall barn at Butch Eastham’s farm.
There was several children there that day so excited about seeing the horses. I decided it would be better painting with the little girl in it so I made a change.
That’s one thing about painting. You can always change something if you decide you would like it better another way!
I call this Farm Tour at the Eastham Barn. It is an 8″x10″ acrylic on canvas.
Also, took this photo of Little Girl when I was at the Eastham Farm that day. Couldn’t resist showing it…
Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, animal shelter, daily painter, Dogs, Julia Wagner Animal Shelter, Landscape, mural, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago Michele Sommers, Sommers End Originals, and I painted this mural at our the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter here in Warren County. It turned out great and adds a lot of life to a dull wall there.
We invite other artists to come out and add other animals to the window. Plus we will be painting a tree on the small wall leading to the cat area and will add cats to that mural. If you would like to help just get in touch with us.
You can see more photos of the mural and Michele and I at work here.
Posted in daily painter, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, barn, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary on July 15, 2011| 1 Comment »
Here is the next barn painting that I’ve done for the upcoming show, “Barns and Farms in Warren County” that will be at the Blue Ridge Arts Council next month. This one is , “Barn off of Browntown Road“, is acrylic measuring 4″x5”.
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