Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, impressionism, Landscape on October 17, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Our Kids Class started back this week with a wonderful landscape painting. Great job everyone.
Kids ages 8-13 meet on Wednesday from 4:15-5:15. Just contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register your young artist. Let’s paint!
And don’t forget the 3rd Saturday Paint Party tomorrow. We are doing something a little different – painting buckets!
Posted in Landscape, Plein Air, tagged brick painting, Historic Village of Waterford, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Plein Air, Shenandoah Valley Artist, Virginia Artist, Waterford Virginia on October 10, 2014| Leave a Comment »
A study in brick on location in Waterford, VA
A view of Waterford, VA. Park behind the church
A view of a street in Waterford
Another streetscape in Waterford
Yesterday I painted with the Plein Air group in Waterford, Virginia. Our group meets to paint together outdoors in different locations to hone our skills and enjoy the fellowship of other painters. And Waterford was such a nice choice. I had never even heard of it and it is just about an hour from where I live.
The entire town is a national historic village. It was founded by a Quaker from Bucks County, PA in 1733 and many of the buildings still is use were built before 1840. It’s adorable. (Learn more here about Waterford.)
There were so many wonderful streetscapes in this adorable little village that it was hard to choose what to paint. I took many, many photos so that I would have some material for later.
I decided to paint the front portion of a cute little brick home so that I could do a “study in brick”. I don’t often do streetscapes so I took this opportunity to practice working on shape and color. I like how it has started and hope to finish it soon in the studio. The lady who lives in the house came out to chat for a few minutes. She was delightful.
I have missed painting with this group and hope we get a chance to paint together a couple more Thursdays before the weather gets too cold.
Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, daily painting, hay bales, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Shenandoah Valley Artist, Virginia Artist on October 5, 2014| Leave a Comment »
The group at the 1st Saturday Paint Party created wonderful paintings of Hay Bales in the Field yesterday. Great work ladies. And what fun. It is always good to paint with such a cheerful group. Keep up the good work.
Sample of Folk Art Bucket similar to what we will paint at the next party.
The next Paint Party is Saturday, October 18th at 3 pm. We will be trying something new-painting buckets and other metal items. Just contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to register for this fun event!
Posted in daily painter, Landscape, Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Oxbow Farm, Shenandoah Valley, sunflower, sunflowers, Virginia Artist on September 28, 2014| 1 Comment »
I spent a delightful morning painting a sunflower field at a beautiful farm north of town yesterday.
It has been awhile since I have been out to paint and I had almost forgotten how much I enjoyed it.
As with most Plein Air paintings that I do this one is almost finished but will get a little adjustment now that I have it in the studio. You can see the step-by-step progress in this collage.
Sunflower View I is an oil on canvas panel measuring 11″ x 14″. SOLD!
Posted in Landscape, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, hay bales, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on September 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
TVOR Demonstration Painting
TVOR Demo Painting Completed
I took a little time to work on the demonstration painting that I did last week at The Village at Orchard Ridge. (Read about that here and here.) Often when doing a demo painting I get it about 75-80% completed. I like to take questions so I talk while painting and I can’t always concentrate on details to finish up. That is what happened with this one. I used a larger canvas than usual because I wanted everyone to be able to see it so in the 50 minutes that I painted I did get a lot done but still needed to wrap it up.
Here are the photos side by side to see the difference.
Posted in Commissions, Landscape, tagged acrylic, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, View from Harrisonburg, Virginia Artist on September 18, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I met the nice young man who was the recipient of the painting that I did recently of the “View from Harrisonburg”. (You can see the step by step photos here.) The painting was a graduation gift as he just graduated from JMU.
And he wanted to take a photo with me when he picked it up. And he promised to send me a photo of where he hangs the painting.
Posted in Animals, Farm Animals, Travel, tagged acrylic, cow, daily painter, folk art, Folk Art Farm, Landscape, Virginia Artist on September 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I worked on a sample painting in a “Folk Art” style for the Retreat that I am teaching at this weekend at Sassafras Farm. We will be doing one canvas painting as well as a painting on a bucket!
Looking forward to meeting some new friends and having a fun weekend at the “Pioneers and Primitives” Retreat.
Posted in daily painter, Landscape, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on September 11, 2014| Leave a Comment »
TVOR Demonstration Painting
Here is the painting that I did for the demonstration at The Village at Orchard Ridge on Tuesday night. (See yesterday’s post.)
I worked in acrylic on an 18″x24″ canvas. This was a one hour talk so I did not complete the painting but rather laid in the color and got a few details in so that they could see the process. I will take some time soon to finish it up but for an hour I got a great deal done.
Posted in Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, impressionism, Landscape, Moon over the Mountain, Paint Party, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on September 8, 2014| Leave a Comment »
I enjoyed working with a delightful family last night for a special family reunion Paint Party. These ladies were so much fun and we laughed and painted and had a wonderful time. The “Moonlight Over the Mountain” theme was to honor their grandmother who often sang that song to them. What a special Paint Party! Thanks girls for letting me be a part of it.
Posted in Landscape, Paint Parties, tagged acrylic, daily painter, Fall Painting, impressionism, Landscape, Paint Party, Virginia Artist on September 7, 2014| Leave a Comment »
We have had two great Paint Parties this weekend – a Mom’s Night Out on Friday evening and our regular 1st Saturday Paint Party yesterday. Both did fabulous Fall paintings. Great job everyone!
And today we are having a Family Reunion Paint Party! What a great idea. More to come. If you would like to come to a Paint Party just sign up for the 1st or 3rd Saturday Parties that are open to anyone or if you have a special occasion we can plan a special party just for you.
The Studio 