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The Monster Painted Shelf

Posted in Furniture, tagged , , , on October 31, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I have been wanting to add shelves to my kitchen.  My kitchen is small with limited cabinet space so when I was up at Allen’s warehouse where I have some furniture stored and remembered that this piece was there, I was thrilled.  We moved it to the house on Sunday before the storm.  And it was a pain to move because it weighs a ton!  Yesterday I started painting, and painting, and painting.  Shelves like this are hard to paint…and take forever.  Plus I used an oil-based cabinet paint so it was extremely messy.  But it’s almost done.  Needs a little more paint in a couple of spots and I need to sand the top of the doors down to get them to close properly but  it’s almost done.  I like it.

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Happy Birthday Allen

Posted in Serendipity, tagged on October 23, 2012| 1 Comment »

Today is Allen’s birthday.  He treats his birthday as just another day.  We keep telling him that it is his special day and we should celebrate.  We want to celebrate all the things that makes him so special – his caring ways, his fun personality, his dry sense of humor, his love and caring for me and the dogs, his love for his cats (all 6 of them!).  He’s a good, good man and we are lucky to have him in our lives. 

So Happy Birthday Allen!  We love you!

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Miss Inge

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , on July 21, 2012| 2 Comments »

One sunny day last week I took the paintings that the ladies at The Southerlands had completed in the last few months outside to give them a good coat of varnish.  There were a BUNCH of them.  I love going up there on Tuesday’s to work with these fun ladies.  They always make me smile.

I guess that is why I was so shocked when I went a few weeks ago and learned that one of my favorite students, Miss Inge, had passed away.  It was sudden and unexpected.  She had never painted before we started and she just loved what she created.

This is one of Inge’s last paintings.  I will miss her smiling face and wonderful little Jewish sayings.  She never let me squeeze out too much paint.  “We shouldn’t waste”.  I can hear her saying it now with a big, sweet smile on her face and twinkle in her eye.

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Uniforms and a Parade

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged , , , on July 19, 2012| 2 Comments »

Yesterday evening in downtown Front Royal we had the Fireman’s Parade.  This is a phenomenon that I have only seen in Virginia.  It happens during their big fundraiser – a carnival.  The parade drives through downtown with all the fire equipment from the county fire stations as well as some surrounding areas.  The highlight of the parade is the queens and princesses.  Every fire hall has a few from newborns to high school girls and they ride through the parade in their fanciest gowns waving to their adoring public. 

Watching the parade caused me and my friends who took a break from art class to watch (the parade goes right by the arts council where we hold classes) to talk about parades we had marched in when we were in school.  And that caused me to recall that I had run across my old majorette uniforms recently.  My mom made these.  The bright green one was my favorite.  It is made of some shiny eyelash type fabric that I remember that she had such trouble sewing but all the majorettes loved them.  And the dark green one is velvet!

And, of course, when football season ended I cheered during basketball season so there were even more uniforms.  We were Patterson High School Eagles!  Green and White Fight, Fight!  🙂

The memories, oh, the memories!

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Mr. Hyde

Posted in Farm Animals, tagged , , , , , , , , , on June 23, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Having visited Sassafras Farm last week put me in the mood to add to my “Farm Animal” series.  I took loads of new photos to work from so I will get started on those very soon.

Here is “Mr. Hyde”, an oil painting on canvas, measuring 8″x6″, that I painted from a previous trip there.  This painting, along with others in the “Farm Animal” series is available at Delilah’s on Main Street in Front Royal.

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Fence Going Up in Dog Park

Posted in Dogs, Small Town Life, tagged , , on June 5, 2012| Leave a Comment »

The first fence post in the Warren County Dog Park went up last week.  And the building continues.  Woo Hoo! 

It shouldn’t take long to get it finished now that we have begun so we can expect the park to open this summer.  Yeah!  Woof!

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TIme to Sign up for Summer Art Camp

Posted in Art Camp, tagged , , , , , on May 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Hard to believe but summer is almost here and it’s time to start planning the fun camp events for your kids for the summer.

Take a look here for information about Art Camp for Kids for this summer.  We have five fun and exciting weeks planned where kids ages 7-13 will paint beautiful creations based on famous artists work.  Each week will feature different styles of art and not only do we paint, we learn about art and art history in a really fun environment.  Sign up now for you young artist.  Contact kwalker@kellywalkerstudios.com .

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Main Street Pop-up Paintings

Posted in Art Class, tagged , , , , , , on May 3, 2012| 1 Comment »

Emma

Maggie

Olivia

 

 

Here are Emma, Maggie and Olivia with their “Main Street” pop-up paintings.

They did a splendid job with these unusual mixed media paintings.  Great work girls!!!

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Leadership Class 2012

Posted in Art Class, Small Town Life, tagged , , , , , , , on April 22, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I was invited to teach this year’s Adult Leadership Class a lesson in art.  Leadership is an excellent program that the Chamber of Commerce offers that studies a different aspect of our community each month.  They study in-depth government, education, industry, tourism, law enforcement, art, and much more over the course of the year.

So, of course, for my session on Art, Culture and Tourism day, we all painted. 

 

And everyone embraced their inner artist!

 

 

 

And at the end of our session we had seven new artists!  Great job everyone.

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Dog Park I & II

Posted in Dogs, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 3, 2012| 2 Comments »

Dog Park I & II are two watercolor paintings that I did about 5 years ago as the first fundraiser for the Off-Leash Dog Park.    These pieces were raffled and then we made prints to sell all to benefit the park.  Prints are still available at Delilah’s with the proceeds benefiting the park fund.

Hard to believe that we’ve been working on building an off-leash park for that long but we have.  The good news is that we are working on our final fundraiser.  It’s a raffle also.  (We’ve come full circle!)  We call it the Westminster Dog Show Raffle because we have tied it to the show coming up February 13-14, 2012.  If you want to help just buy at ticket for $10.  The number on your raffle ticket will be randomly assigned to one of the 185 breeds showing this year at Westminster.  If your dog wins, you win $350.  You have a 1 in 185 chance to win. 

We will be at Petco in Front Royal Saturday beginning at 10:00 to sell tickets.  Stop in and get yours.  Or stop by Delilah’s.  We have tickets there too.  Or contact me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com  and I’ll get a ticket to you.  When we finish this fundraiser we’ll be ready to break ground.  Can I hear a Halleluiah!!!!!

 

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