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Paint the Parks!

Posted in Plein Air, tagged , , on August 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Paint the Parks LogoA few days ago I wrote about PaintTheParks, a group of artists who are painting parks around the world and giving a portion of their sales to support parks foundations.  I am continuing to build my PaintTheParks page and adding paintings I have already done of National, State, and local parks.  I hope to get out “en plein air” and paint a new one this week.  We are lucky to live at the northern entrance of the Shenandoah National Park, a real treasure in the national park system.  There are so many beautiful scenes there to paint.

 

Shen National Park Sign

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3 Paintings of the Dickey Ridge View

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Last Thursday I painted at Dickey Ridge.  Often when I paint on location I paint at least one painting and sometimes start a second.  This particular day I did that plus started a third.  Many painters paint multiple canvas of the same subject.  Think Monet’s Haystacks and his Cathedrals.

Here are the three paintings I completed from that plein-air outing.

Overlook View from Dickey Ridge I – private collection

These paintings are available by contacting kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

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Plein Air at Dickey Ridge Visitor Center

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 29, 2012| 2 Comments »

Yesterday was Plein Air Thursday.  But I didn’t have time to go to the location where the group was painting so I decided to go up in the Shenandoah National Park to the Dickey Ridge overlook and paint for a few hours.  It’s such a lovely drive and so hard to believe that it is only 5 miles from my house.

This is the view I selected for the painting and the start of the piece.

 

And these next few shots are the progress I made throughout the next hour or so.

 

 

 

 

By the time I left I felt as if I were about 90% done with the painting.  I will touch it up a little and then it will go down to Delilah’s where hopefully someone will see it and want to take it home. 

Tomorrow I will tell you about the best part of painting at Dickey Ridge yesterday…

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North Entrance, Shenandoah National Park

Posted in daily painter, Travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on April 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I was asked if I ever have time to paint since I have been teaching so much lately.  And the answer is yes!  Of course, with the Anniversary project I did with the 4th graders I painted a sample painting so their were about a dozen different subjects that I worked on so that I could simplify subjects for them to paint.

This painting is a spin-off of that.  I painted North Entrance, an acrylic on 20″x30″ canvas, for the current show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Park.  You can see it at BRAC for the next month.  There is some lovely work in the show.  Take the time to stop in and take a look.

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