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Eastham Weathervane

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Eastham Weathervane, acrylic on canvas panel, 12″x9″.  On display at Blue Ridge Arts Council  “Farms and Barns of Warren County” show beginning today.

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Visitors…

Posted in Dogs, tagged , , on August 8, 2011| 1 Comment »

We often get visitors here at the house.

This is Morgan, my niece who was here a few weeks ago.  The boys LOVE her and she loves them. 

 

In the window is Max visiting this week while his people are on vacation. He loves playing with Lincoln.

 

And you will remember Ordo.  He visits often since he stayed with us for a few weeks last May.  He also loves playing with Lincoln.  (Lincoln is such the little host!)

And this is Jen, Ordo’s mom, and Lincoln looking on.

We love having puppy visitors!

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Butch’s Barn

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

During the Farm Tour last May I took lots of photos of Barns and Farms for the upcoming show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.  I have painted several including this one of a horse stall barn at Butch Eastham’s farm. 

There was several children there that day so excited about seeing the horses.  I decided it would be better painting with the little girl in it so I made a change.

 

That’s one thing about painting.  You can always change something if you decide you would like it better another way!

I call this Farm Tour at the Eastham Barn. It is an 8″x10″ acrylic on canvas.

Also, took this photo of Little Girl when I was at the Eastham Farm that day.  Couldn’t resist showing it…

 

 

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Art Camp – Modern Week Huge Success!!!

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , on July 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The final painting during Modern Art Week Camp was a study of Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can.

And look at the fabulous job each of these young artists did with their painting.

All ten students did beautiful work this whole week. 

There are only two weeks of art camp left this summer.  The week of August 8 and the week of August 22.  Both of these weeks will explore a variety of styles from impressionism to modern.  There are only a couple of slots left in each week so sign your young artist up now.  Email me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .

 

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Only in Virginia

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged , , , on July 21, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday in downtown Front Royal was the Fireman’s Parade.  Once a year they have a parade and roll out all of their equipment and all their beauty queens. 

I have lived in several states and Virginia is the only one where I have experienced this phenomenon.  The kids loved it, lining the streets, waiting for candy to be thrown their way.  I love small town life!!!

 

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A Shelter Window Mural

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago Michele Sommers, Sommers End Originals, and I painted this mural at our the Julia Wagner Animal Shelter here in Warren County.  It turned out great and adds a lot of life to a dull wall there.

We invite other artists to come out and add other animals to the window.  Plus we will be painting a tree on the small wall leading to the cat area and will add cats to that mural.  If you would like to help just get in touch with us.

You can see more photos of the mural and Michele and I at work here.

 

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Barn in Warren County

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The next show at the Blue Ridge Arts Council is in Celebration of Warren County’s 175th Birthday, Barns & Farms of Warren County.  I painted this small piece on Monday in preparation for the show. 

It is an acrylic on matboard measuring 7 3/4″ x 13″.  It’s called “Bowen Farm from Fairgrounds Road”.

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Art Camp Begins

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »

We had a great first day of Art Camp yesterday at the Blue Ridge Arts Council.  I have six students (one is camera-shy) and they all produced great art.

We started with the basic color wheel, mixing colors, learning about primary and complementary colors.  They picked that up really fast!

 Then they painted their first piece of art.   It’s a beautiful mountain scene.  Everyone of them did a fabulous job!  No kiddie art for these guys…they are making real grown-up art!  I love it!!!

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Young Artist Honored

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , on June 1, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The young artists, 4th graders, from all five elementary schools who participated in the 175th Anniversary Art project were honored last night at an Opening Reception of their work at the Community Center.  Their art will hang there until the end of July when it will return their schools as a permanent display.

Many students and parents turned out to see the five collages.  And so did the TV station.  Three of the students were interviewed for a story that ran last night on TV-3. 

Good job girls!  (See there video here.)

Make time to stop by and see the beautiful art that these children created to honor the 175th Anniversary of Warren County!

(You can read more about the project on past posts in March and April of this blog and by starting here.)

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Off to Oklahoma City

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , , , on May 25, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A painting that I did outdoors a year or so ago at the Bowen Farm in Rockland has been purchased by a collector in Oklahoma City.  It’s all packaged up and ready to go to the post office today…off to it’s new home in Oklahoma.  O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A, Oklahoma,  OK!  Couldn’t resist that one.  🙂

View from the Bowen Farm, 9″x12″, Oil on Canvas.

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