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Virginia Vineyard View

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, vineyards, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Virginia Vineyard, Virginia wineries on September 30, 2013| 2 Comments »

Step 1 -Sketch

Step 2 – Sky and Distance

Step 3 – Middle Ground

Step 4 Establish Foreground

Step 5- Finish

Last Thursday and Friday while working at Delilah’s I painted on the front porch. I love painting outside on beautiful days and Thursday and Friday were lovely. And it’s fun to talk to all the people who come by and stop to see what I am doing. I took several photos while I worked so you can see the progress of this painting. Virginia Vineyard View is an acrylic on canvas measuring 16″x20″ and will be available at Winding Road Cellars soon. (UPDATE: This painting SOLD…even before it made it to the winery. WooHoo!)

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Completed Painting from Peebles

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, vineyards, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Virginia winery, Winding Road Cellars on September 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Earlier this week I wrote about painting at Pebbles last Saturday. (Read about it here.) I finally got a few minutes to touch up the painting and get it closer to a finished work. Here it is. I have been invited to hang my work at a new winery in Hume, Winding Road Cellars so I am working on some vineyard scenes for that. I hope to take them out there next week.

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Valley Vineyard

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley on September 27, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Logan and Ethan did a great job yesterday in the Kid’s Art Class painting a beautiful view of a Shenandoah Valley vineyard. Super!

If you have a young person, ages 7-13 that is interested in painting contact kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com and sign them up for a painting class. It’s a great way for them to learn about color mixing and composition in a fun and productive environment. And just look at the wonderful art they have at the end of each class!

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Painting at Peebles

Posted in daily painter, Tips for Better Painting, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Peebles, Shenandoah Valley, Vineyard, Virginia Artist, Virginia Wine, Virginia wineries, Wine, wine glass on September 25, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Carley, my helper

Doing Grandma’s make-up

Making progress

Adding the wine

Putting in details

I get invited to paint at special events from time to time. A good friend of mine is manager at Peebles here in town and invited me to paint there for a special promotion they were doing last spring. They had me back this weekend. I painted a larger version of a small painting (Virginia WIne I, see it here) that I did a few weeks ago and I enlisted a helper. Often, when painting on location, I invite kids to “help” me. And usually they jump right in. This little girl was so much fun. She helped me paint for a while and then she did her grandmothers make-up at a table they had set-up for people to try out some new things. Adorable.

Virginia Wine II, is acrylic on canvas, 18″x24″ and is almost finished. I still have a little more to do to it but we got a great deal done at the event.

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Virginia Wine

Posted in daily painter, Tips for Better Painting, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, red wine, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist, Virginia Wine, Virginia wineries, wine glass, winery on September 18, 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Virginia Wine” complete

Step 1 – A sketch and laying in the sky

Step 2 – Adding distance with mountains and meadow

Step 3 – Adding middle distance – vineyards

Step 4 – Adding the foreground – a table and glass

I did this painting that I call Virginia Wine for a special request this week. It is an acrylic on 6″ x 8″ canvas.

As I painted it I tried to take photos because several of you have told me that you enjoy seeing how the paintings develop. So here you are:

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United Way Sponsors

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, United Way, Virginia Artist on September 15, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We were proud to help sponsor the United Ways Shrimp, Oyster, and BBQ Fundraiser last night. The food was delicious and auction great fun. It was delightful to see so many friends gather together for a great cause. I’m glad Kelly Walker Studios and Delilah’s Art and Gifts could be a part of it.

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George’s Goat

Posted in Farm Animals, tagged daily painter, daily painting, farm animals, goat, goats, impressionism, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

George’s Goat, oil on canvas, 8″x6″, available for $135. After taking the workshop last weekend on “Painting Animals” it reminded me that I need to paint more animals for the Farm Animal series that I did several years ago. (You can see more about it here.) Many of these have sold so I need to come up with some more of these cute faces to add to the series. Stay tuned….next, a Llama!

Goat Reference Photo

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Plein Air Sunflowers

Posted in daily painter, Plein Air, Tips for Better Painting, tagged daily painter, daily painting, flowers, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Oxbow Farms, Plein Air, Shenandoah Valley, sunflowers, Virginia Artist on August 23, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Set-up to Paint

Sketch

Sky and Distant Mountains

Distant Trees and Meadow

Foreground Greens

Sunflowers – Painting about 90% complete

View from Easel

Beauty in Sunflowers

Yesterday I had the most wonderful morning painting “en plein air” at Oxbow Farm. There is the most beautiful field of sunflowers there that just needed to be painted. I tried to take step by step photos to share today of one of the paintings that I did. When I work outside I can usually get a painting about 85-90% finished and then after a day or two of letting the paint “rest” I will complete it in the studio.

I call this “Oxbow Sunflowers 1“. It is an oil on canvas measuring 9″x12” and is available framed for $275.

Being outside and painting sunflowers was such a treat after painting all the ball parks I have been doing the last few months. It was a nice break.

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Mountain Painting Demo for New Student

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged Art Class, art lessons, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia Artist on August 21, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Here is a demonstration painting that I did last week with a new art student. Often I get questions about how I teach new students. What I try to do is just help them “jump right in”. We start with a simple painting like the one shown here but it is detailed enough that they can get the feel of the paints and brushes and what they will do. I think the hardest thing for most new painters is to just get started. They don’t know where to begin. By having them follow along with me as I paint they see exactly what to do and how easy it can be. If you have ever wanted to paint you CAN paint. Just get started. Take the leap. Join us at art class on Wednesdays or Thursdays at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. You Can paint!

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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.