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Painted Diamonds Revisited

Posted in daily painter, tagged AT&T Park, Kansas City Royals, Kauffman Stadium, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Painted Diamonds, San Francisco Giants on October 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Kauffman Stadium
Kansas City Royals

The World Series is underway with San Francisco and Kansas City.

San Francisco Giants
AT&T Park

The Painted Diamonds series of paintings is currently on display at the Community Center on Villa Avenue.

“Painted Diamonds – 30 Parks in 30 Weeks”, created a painting of every major league ball park, all thirty of them, between April and October 2013. The project was documented and published in a catalog as well as on Kelly’s blog. There was an exhibition of the entire series at the Blue Ridge Arts Council in Front Royal, VA, during World Series Week, October 23-31, 2013. Eleven of the original paintings were pre-sold during the Kickstarter project and several more have sold since the original show.

The paintings will remain on display at the Community Center until the end of October. The remaining original paintings as well as prints of every park are available for purchase.

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Painted Diamonds on Display

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, Major League Baseball, MLB, Painted Diamonds, Virginia Artist on August 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Painted Diamonds – Paintings of the MLB Parks are on display at the Warren County Community Center at 538 Villa Avenue. It is open Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Sunday 1:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

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Celebrating 100 Years at Wrigley Field

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Little Known Facts, Travel, tagged acrylic, Chicago Cubs paintings, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter, Landscape, Major League Baseball, Painted Diamonds, painting of Wrigley field, Virginia Artist, Wrigley Field on April 23, 2014| 1 Comment »

Wrigley Field
Home of the Chicago Cubs

Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, turns 100 today.

When asked last year while I was painting the Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds what is my favorite ball park to go see a ball game I said Wrigley Field. If you haven’t been there you really have to go if you like baseball. It’s a ball park – not a stadium. It has an intimate feel about it. According to where you sit you may have to lean around posts to see. I love Wrigley. It’s a great old park.

Happy Birthday Wrigley!

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Play Ball!

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter, Painted Diamonds, Turner Field on April 9, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Turner Field
Atlanta Braves

Baseball season has started and this year it feels really strange not to be painting the MLB parks like I was doing last year all during the season. My Kickstarter project – Painted Diamonds was a lot of fun but kept me busy for 6 months painting those parks. (Read all about it and see the paintings here.)

If you have a favorite team you can check the Painted Diamonds page to see if that painting is still available or order a print of your favorite field.

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Marine War Memorial Prints Available

Posted in Commissions, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged Marine War Memorial, Painted Diamonds, prints, Virginia Artist on November 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

After getting several requests for a print of the Marine War Memorial that I painted last week I have had prints made. They are available now.

You can click this Order Form with Marine War Mem to order one. The order form also has information for ordering any of the Painted Diamonds merchandise – prints, catalog and poster. Just feel free to contact me if you have any questions at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

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The Bing

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, baseball stadiums, Bing Crosby Stadium, daily painter, daily painting, Front Royal Cardinals, impressionism, Landscape, Painted Diamonds, The Bing, Virginia Artist on October 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Bing Crosby Stadium
Front Royal, Virginia

I couldn’t paint all those ball parks over the last six months and not include our very own “Bing Crosby Stadium”. So number 31 in my series of Painted DIamonds is The Bing, as it is affectionately known in Front Royal. It opened in April of 1950 and is the home to the Front Royal Cardinals, a collegiate summer baseball team.

There are many variations to the story of how the stadium got its name. Here is one:

In 1948, while serving as Grand Marshall of the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Bing Crosby came to Front Royal at the invitation of Senator Raymond R. Guest to help with a fund-raising campaign for a new ball park. He contributed $1,000 to the effort. In 1950, Mr. Crosby returned to Front Royal for the premiere of his movie, “Riding High”, and made another contribution of $3,572.92, which completed the fund-raising campaign.

A plaque at the stadium reads as follows: “The stadium was dedicated on April 1, 1950. It was erected by the people of Front Royal and Warren County in sincere appreciation of Bing Crosby’s assistance in promoting recreational facilities for the youth of this community. “

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A Poster of Painted Diamonds

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged daily painter, MLB Ballparks, MLB Stadiums, Painted Diamonds, Painted Diamonds poster, poster, Virginia Artist on October 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I’ve spent the last couple of days preparing the layout for a poster of the Painted Diamonds series. It went to print last night. Woo Hoo! This is part of the Kickstarter rewards. Pledges at the certain level will receive a poster. Others will get a print of a certain field and at the higher level pledge some will receive an actual painting.

We will also have posters and prints available for sale beginning next week as well as the original paintings that have not already sold.

If you have a baseball fan in your family this is a great gift idea for Christmas. Something unique for the person who already has everything!

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“Local Artist Successful”

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Small Town Life, tagged baseball paintings, media, Painted Diamonds, TV3, TV3 Winchester on October 16, 2013| Leave a Comment »

TV3 Winchester did a short piece yesterday on the news about the completion of the Painted Diamonds project. You can see the video and read their story on their website by clicking here or on the photo. (You may see a short ad before the story.)

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Winding Down a BIG Project

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, baseball, daily painter, impressionism, Kickstarter project, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, MLB, Painted Diamonds, Virginia Artist on September 14, 2013| 2 Comments »

The last few weeks I have been feeling a lot of pressure to finish the last few ball park paintings in the Kickstarter Painted Diamonds project. There are only a few more to go. What I did this past week was start several and work on parts of each every day. I find this is more interesting at this point in the project. Yesterday was spent painting, painting, painting. And that is the plan for this weekend too!

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Busch Stadium

Posted in Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged Busch Stadium, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, MLB, MLB Stadiums, Painted Diamonds, St. Louis Cardinals, Virginia Artist on August 5, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Busch Stadium
St. Louis Cardinals

The 18th ball field in the series is Busch Stadium – home of the St. Louis Cardinals. The stadium is very open and offers a great view of the famous Arch.

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