Posted in daily painter, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, barn, barns, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The next show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council is in Celebration of Warren County’s 175th Birthday, Barns & Farms of Warren County. I painted this small piece on Monday in preparation for the show.
It is an acrylic on matboard measuring 7 3/4″ x 13″. It’s called “Bowen Farm from Fairgrounds Road”.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on July 7, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I spent a couple of hours with the young artists at Angel’s Korner painting mountain landscapes. The students, ages 5-11, did a fabulous job painting….don’t you think???!!!
Posted in Art Camp, daily painter, tagged Abstract, acrylic, Art Camp, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on July 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Here are some of the demos that I completed during the first week of Art Camp studying and learning to paint in the Impressionist style. We had a great week and I’m looking forward to the next week, beginning July 25th when we will begin studying Modern Art. Fun!!! If you know a young artist (age 7-12) let them know it’s not too late to sign up for one of the three remaining weeks of Art Camp this summer.
Posted in Art Camp, tagged Art Camp, Art Class, bridge, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Monet, Virginia Artist on July 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The Art Campers completed their “Masterpiece” painting yesterday. The emphasis for this week of camp is impressionism so of course, we painted a Monet.
They chose the Japanese Bridge over the Lily Pond as their subject.
And look at what a super job they did!!!
But art is exhausting. After taking two camp days to complete the large 16″x20″ painting they were pooped. At break time yesterday, they all took their snacks and went out into the lobby and laid down on the floor to eat their snacks. Pooped out!!!
Posted in Art Camp, tagged acrylic, Art Camp, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on June 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
We had a great first day of Art Camp yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. I have six students (one is camera-shy) and they all produced great art.
We started with the basic color wheel, mixing colors, learning about primary and complementary colors. They picked that up really fast!
Then they painted their first piece of art. It’s a beautiful mountain scene. Everyone of them did a fabulous job! No kiddie art for these guys…they are making real grown-up art! I love it!!!
Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, commercial buildings, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist, watercolor on June 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I got a call late on Tuesday afternoon and met with a client to do a quick watercolor sketch of his ideas for changes to his building. He needed them quickly for a meeting today. It would have been fun to spend a little more time tweaking them but with the short notice all I had time to do was try to get his ideas on paper. S
While this is not my most favorite type of painting to do, it is something that comes up from time to time and it does help pay the bills. 🙂
Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, Farm Gate, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia, Virginia Artist on June 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »
These young artist did a great job painting the Farm Gate a few weeks ago.
This is just an example of the kinds of paintings that the kids will do in Summer Art Camp. The first weeklong camp will begin June 27th and is for students ages 7 – 12. If you have a budding artist, please contact me for more information. There is still a couple of spaces left for that week. There are five weeks to choose from so if that week doesn’t work for you, just email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com and I can send you the full schedule.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Virginia, Virginia Artist, wedding dance on June 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Several months ago I got a commission for a painting as an anniversary gift from a man for his wife. It was a photo of their wedding dance. But he also wanted it to reflect a favorite book that they had.
So I worked to incorporate the two. This is the beginning.
After working on it for a while, this is what I had.
Eventually I made a few more changes to make them each stand out more.
And this was the final painting. He loved it. I hope she did too!
Posted in Art Class, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, seniors paint, Small Town Life, The Southerlands, Virginia Artist on June 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I spent a very pleasant hour painting with these beautiful “new ” artists at The Southerlands And didn’t they do a fantastic job on their paintings? 
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »
The young artists, 4th graders, from all five elementary schools who participated in the 175th Anniversary Art project were honored last night at an Opening Reception of their work at the Community Center. Their art will hang there until the end of July when it will return their schools as a permanent display.
Many students and parents turned out to see the five collages. And so did the TV station. Three of the students were interviewed for a story that ran last night on TV-3.
Good job girls! (See there video here.)
Make time to stop by and see the beautiful art that these children created to honor the 175th Anniversary of Warren County!
(You can read more about the project on past posts in March and April of this blog and by starting here.)
The Studio 