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Best Friends is an oil on canvas panel measuring 12″x9″ and is available for $145.  We did it in art class a few months ago and I just finished it.  Often in class I will begin a demo piece and then I start moving from student to student to help and I never  get back to my painting to finish it.  So this last week I had a chance to finish a few and I’ll show those to  you over the next few weeks.

The dog reminds me of my Jed sitting staring out at the world.  Jed does that often.

Here he is waiting at the cabin to go run and play in the snow a few weeks ago.  I think he was trying to decide if he got stuck in the deep white stuff if he would ever get out!

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Rose Study is an oil on canvas panel measuring 8″x10″.  

A painter often refers to a painting as a study if they are doing the piece to prepare for a larger piece.  This is often the case with plein air painting when an artist will paint a scene on location and then go back to the studio and paint a much larger piece. 

Or maybe they paint a study as a warm-up to a more detailed piece.  They could be testing colors or shapes.  Or it could just be a practice as it was in this case.

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I love impressionism.  Many people do.  When you ask someone what their favorite painting might be often people will name an impressionist’s work; ie.  Monet, Degas, Renoir, etc. 

But do you know what invention truly help to develop the impressionist movement of painting outdoors and capturing light and fleeting images?  The paint tube!   Never would have guess that, right?  Before the invention of the paint tube which allowed artists to easily carry their mixed paints in the field they had to use, of all things, pig bladders.  Yuck.  I’m thinking I would have remained in the studio to paint too. 

Miniature Summer Flowers is an oil on canvas panel measuring 3″x7″ and is available for $45.

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Looking East Toward Signal Knob is an oil on canvas panel measuring 4″x6″ and is available for $65.

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Shenandoah Valley View is an oil on canvas panel measuring 12″x24″.  This is a piece I started several years ago and while we’ve been weathered in the past few weeks I’ve taken the time to dig out a few old starts and get them finished. 

This one is now framed and on display at Delilah’s.  Come by and see it.

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Teacher’s Pet is an oil on 9″x12″ canvas panel and is framed and available by contacting me. 

I love this painting.  We did this a few weeks ago in our Wednesday Night Oil Painting Class.  See what you could do if you came and painted with us????

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Laura’s Favorite View is an oil on 8″x10″ canvas panel and is available by contacting me.

I paint a great deal from photographs, especially during the winter months when it is difficult to get outside to paint.  This view is from a photo that one of my collectors sent to me recently.  She said that she has taken numerous shots of this particular scene.  It’s one that she enjoys seeing each time she drives by it. 

I love it when readers share their photos with me and give me permission to paint from them.  I am working on a second painting from the same photo as it has a barn in it and I wanted to do a painting with and without the barn.  Stay tuned for Laura’s Favorite View II.

Thursday Trivia revisits a    question we just recently answered.  Yesterday a record was set for the most expensive piece of art every sold at auction.  It is “Walking Man”, a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti, a 20th Century Swiss artist.  It took just 8 minutes for 10 bidders at Sotheby’s to run the price up to $104.3 million! 

Walking Man is a life-size sculpture, 72 inches tall, of a wiry man walking along.  The part that amazes me most is that Sotheby’s estimated that it would sell for 12-16 million pounds and it actually went for 65 million!  I’d say they were off a little in their estimate.  🙂

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I thought with all the snow on the ground (again) that it might be nice to look forward to a warm day at the beach.  Today’s painting is called Building Clouds and is an oil on canvas panel measuring 10″x8″ and is SOLD

Enjoy the warm scene.

And as always, Wednesday is Art Class night.  Anyone interested in learning to paint please give me a call and come join us for a fun evening.

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From time to time I go through older paintings that I have stacked up in the studio and decide to rework a piece.  Mainly it involves taking a good look at the painting and deciding what it needs to make it better.

That is what happened with this one.  I started this one painting on location at a local vineyard.  It was about 80% finished when I brought it home and I just never did anything else to it.  So I decided it was time to get back to it.  🙂

Vineyard View is an oil on 16″x8″ canvas panel and is shown here framed.  It is available by contacting me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

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Today is the last day of Winter Sale listing.  The sale will continue until  Monday, February 1.  Just email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com if you would like to purchase any of the sale items.

Sedona’s Bell Rock is an oil on 8″x10″ canvas and is on  sale for $95.

 

 

 

 

 

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A Red Strawberry is a 5″x7″ oil painting on canvas.  It is framed.  On sale for $65.                                                                          

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Gold Finch is a 7″x5″ oil on canvas, framed. 

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Soft Afternoon is an oil on 8″x10″ canvas.  On sale for $95.

 

 

 

 

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Isabella’s Poppies is an acrylic on canvas panel measuring 10″x8″ and is SOLD. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Clouds Over the Blue Ridge is a very large 30″x40″ on 1.5″ gallery wrap canvas.  It is on sale for $150.

All sale prices are for the unframed art unless otherwise indicated.  I hope you enjoyed the winter sale.  Thanks to everyone who collected art during the sale.  And please feel free to pass this listing along to friends who may enjoy art. 

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