Tomorrow is the 3rd Thursday Art Walk. Each 3rd Thursday in downtown Front Royal many shops extend their hours until 8 p.m. and from 5-8 p.m. artists demonstrate at several locations. Tomorrow not only will they demonstrate but they will encourage viewers to paint as well.
The theme for tomorrow’s art walk is “Minds Wide Open”, the same theme as my current show at the arts council. Marlene Kline and I will be at BRAC, 305 East Main Street, demonstrating and hopefully helping you paint an abstract work of art.
Please join us and try your hand at painting. We’d love to see you there.
Shown here today are some of the abstract works in the current show that Marlene and I have on display at BRAC.
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Today’s painting is a watercolor of a basset hound dog. It is on display at the show at Philip Carter Winery (
Truman came to live with me when he was 5 1/2 weeks old. He was so cute…most bassett puppies are. 
And he was spoiled from the very beginning. Here he is at 4 months.
Delilah’s, our art & gift gallery on Main Street, took part in a Halloween event for the kids Saturday night. Rebecca came in dressed in a beautiful red mask to help me that evening. (She and her husband have Fox Hill Pottery and they show beautiful work that you can see at Delilah’s.) I dressed as Kelly of Delilah’s, the all-seeing fortune-teller, and decided to break out the tarot card and tell the kids fortunes.
And a long line it was. It snaked into the shop where the fortune-teller was waiting with the tarot deck . And it went out the door…..
……and down the street. It seemed that it got longer and longer. We couldn’t believe how successful our little fortune-telling operation was. We gave out 600 pieces of candy and that was pretty much one per child. 
And after they got their fortune, they, of course, got their treat!
Last Wednesday night at Art Class we worked on an acrylic underpainting of a lemon. Instead of oil paint we used acrylic paint and only using black and white we painted the shading that we saw of the lemon.
The final 3rd Thursday Art Walk of the season is tonight from 5 – 8 p.m. in downtown Front Royal. Be sure to come out and enjoy some refreshments and see the artist demonstrating. Delilah’s will have a tent sale as well as demonstrations. And I believe there will be pumpkin carving demonstrations at the Blue Ridge Arts Council. Just in time for the season! Come join us. We’ll look forward to seeing you.
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