Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on March 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Valley View Lesson I is an oil on canvas panel measuring 9″x12.
Valley View Lesson II is an oil on canvas panel measuring 11″x14″.
Both of these were lessons for Wednesday Night Art Class. I just completed these recently. New students almost always start with a landscape similar to these because it gives them a chance to learn about color mixing, tones, and composition as well as becoming comfortable with putting paint to canvas.
Posted in daily painter, tagged apple blossoms, apple trees, daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on March 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Apple Blossoms II is an oil on canvas panel measuring 8″x10″ and is available for $150.
Spring is almost here!!!
Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, barn, daily painter, daily painting, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries on March 5, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Fenced in Barn is an oil on canvas panel. This is a piece that we did in art class recently. There are many lessons to be learned on a painting like this from color mixing, shading, perspective, etc. We try to choose ideas that allow the student to gain increased knowledge so that they may advance their painting skills.
If you’d like to join us and paint along, contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com . We’d love to see you in class!
Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Trivia, Virginia Artist on February 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on February 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Looking East Toward Signal Knob is an oil on canvas panel measuring 4″x6″ and is available for $65.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, mountains, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries on February 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on February 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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. 🙂
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries on February 2, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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 .
Posted in daily painter, Sale, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on January 29, 2010| Leave a Comment »
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.
On sale for $65.
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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.
Posted in daily painter, Sale, tagged acrylic, affordable art, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Sale, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Winter sale on January 26, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Winter Sale continues. All sale prices are for paintings, unframed unless otherwise noted.
Barn on the Bay is an oil on canvas measuring 10″x8″ and is on sale for $65.
Line of Cherries is an oil on canvas measuring 8″x10″ and is on sale for $65.
Field of Poppies I is a watercolor on paper measuring 22″ x 7″. It is matted and is SOLD.
Corner of the House is an oil on canvas measuring 10″x8″. Sale price $65.
Radish is an oil on canvas panel measuring 8″x8″ and is on sale for $35.
More to come tomorrow!
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