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Walk Along the River

Posted in Serendipity, Travel, tagged Eastham Park Trail, Shenandoah River on November 17, 2013| 1 Comment »

The walking path to and from the dog park along the Shenandoah River offers so much inspiration. Every season of the year it’s beautiful. This is how it looked yesterday morning as the “kids” and I strolled there.

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More Miniatures of Signal Knob

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Signal Knob, Signal Knob Virginia, Virginia, Virginia Artist on November 13, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Signal Knob Miniature III

Signal Knob Miniature IV – SOLD

Here are two more miniatures of the view toward Signal Knob. Both are acrylic on mat board measuring 4″x5″,

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The River View in Class

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia wineries on November 9, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I took a photo of the Shenandoah River while walking down the path to the dog park. It was the perfect reference photo for a landscape painting for the kids class this week. I had four boys….what a challenge. 🙂 They made beautiful paintings of our lovely fall landscape here in the Shenandoah Valley. Great job!

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Painting Hangs at the Government Center

Posted in daily painter, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Warren County Virginia on August 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Back in April I posted about the Anniversary painting that I did with the elementary schools and that I had given the sample painting to the County to hang at the government center. (Read more here.) I said then that I would get some photos to post of how it turned out so while I was at the Center this week I snapped a couple of shots.

It hangs at the entry to the Planning office. I am amazed at the number of people who tell me they have seen it there.

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Dog Days of Summer Sale Continues….

Posted in Sale, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on July 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Overlook from Dickey Ridge II in Plein Air
11″x14″, Oil on Canvas
SALE PRICE: $40

The sale continues today. Contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com to purchase any of these original oil paintings.

The RIver’s Full
11″x14″, Oil on Canvas
SALE PRICE: $40

Season’s Change
11″x14″, Oil on Canvas
SALE PRICE: $40

View from the Meadow
14″x18″, Oil on Canvas
SALE PRICE: $45 SOLD!

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Busy Beavers on the Shenandoah River

Posted in Animals, Small Town Life, tagged Beaver, beaver lodge, daily painter, Shenandoah River on March 3, 2013| 2 Comments »

Over the past few months while walking the dogs down the path at Eastham Park to get to the dog park we have noticed several trees along the river that were down. A month or so ago while Allen was walking with me he said it looked like a beaver had been working. So yesterday I took a couple of photos of their handiwork. Beavers are the second largest rodent in the world but they sure look a lot cuter than rats! They build lodges and apparently that is what they are doing at the river. Beavers are herbivores preferring the wood of cottonwood, alder, birch, maple, and also pondweed and waterlilies. There used to be many more beavers but having been trapped for their fur numbers are down from a high of some 60 million to around 12 million. (More on beavers here.) So far we haven’t actually seen a beaver but we look every day and maybe we will see one soon. In the meantime we have to be happy to just see their handiwork. This is one of the things I love about walking down to the dog park. You never know what you may see down by the river.

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Shenandoah Fishermen

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah River, Virginia Artist on June 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Shenandoah Fishermen, oil on canvas panel, 11″x14″. This is a painting that I started while painting at the boat landing on Luray Avenue in Front Royal a few weeks ago. I had almost finished laying in the composition when these fisherman rode up and stopped. They added the perfect finishing touch to this painting.

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Shenandoah River Plein Air Painting Completed

Posted in Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on May 15, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Shenandoah River in Plein Air, oil on canvas, 11″x14″, SOLD.

I worked on finishing up this painting while working at Delilah’s on Sunday and am pleased with the finished product.

Here is how it looked when I returned to the studio from a day of painting down by the river. Painting in Plein Air is a challenge that pushes artists to develop their skills. I like it! Read about the Plein Air day here.

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Painting in Plein Air by the Shenandoah

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Plein Air, Plein Air painting, Shenandoah River, Virginia Artist on May 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I had a great day painting at the Shenandoah River with two painters who wanted to give plein-air painting a try.

It’s not as easy as you would think. It takes some planning just to get the equipment to the location and set it up.

Luckily we had a great spot down by the boat landing. We were lucky to have a picnic table, a trash can and even a porta-potty! That’s a big deal for plein air painters. 🙂

Jeff looks like he’s been doing this all his life. And he really got into it.

And here is Mary Lou, who was thrilled to be painting outdoors.

It was fun to see these two fine artists exploring a new aspect to their painting.

River View to the South, oil on canvas panel, 11″x14″ (SOLD)is the first piece I worked on that morning. I got a splendid start and plan to finish it in the next week or so. And it’s already spoken for, so that’s good news!

And this is the reference photo for that painting.

I had time to start a second painting but didn’t get quite as far along on it before the sun got to high for the light to work for us. Just as I got it laid in a boat pulled up with two guys fishing so I put them in the painting.

This is the shot I took of them. Glad I added them into my painting because one of the wives of the fisherman pulled up to give them lunch (they were fishing in a tournament) and she yelled up to me, “Are you painting my husband fishing?” Of course I said yes, and she picked up a card and emailed me later in the day to say she’d like to buy it for him for father’s day.

All in all, it was a perfect day for painting. I helped two great students explore outdoor painting; I have two sold paintings; and I got to spend the morning with Breezy (Jeff’s dog who came to help us paint)!

An excellent morning.

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More Mountains and Rivers…

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge, daily painting, Landscape, mountains, Shenandoah River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on April 19, 2011| 2 Comments »

While showing you the mountain and rivers that the Tiger Cubs painted yesterday I thought I would show you what the Young Artists on Wednesday and Thursday did with the same subject. They did a fabulous job. I love seeing what they can do!