Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painting, Landscape, oil painting, snow, trees, Virginia Artist, winter trees on January 14, 2011| 1 Comment »
Wednesday Art Class painted Trees in Winter….a take on a painting that I posted earlier this week.
Thursday’s class painted the same.
And here are the two that I painted for them to follow along with me in class.
Now I have several Trees in Winter paintings. 🙂
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Landscape, snow, tree, Virginia Artist, watercolor on January 12, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Sentinels Two is a watercolor on paper, framed, measuring 16″x20″ and is available for $145.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painting, Landscape, oil painting, snow, trees, Virginia Artist, winter on December 22, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Winter Trees is an oil on canvas measuring 6″x8″ and is available at Delilah’s.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painting, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, snow, Virginia Artist, winter on December 15, 2010| 3 Comments »
Winter’s Day is an oil on canvas measuring 16″x20″ and is available for $225 framed. I like painting snow scenes at this time of the year when it’s cold outside.
Posted in Crochet, tagged Crochet, daily painter, snow, yarn on February 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It is snowing again. We got another several inches last night. Just what we needed seeing how the roads haven’t been cleared from the first snow. 😦
I’m still crocheting. Here is a scarf/wrap and hat that I made out of some beautiful green yarn. And I am working on a couple of other hats. I’m having such fun with this.
For those of you who emailed me, no I haven’t stopped painting. I’m still painting but with all the time inside I have to do other things as well. So this week I just thought I’d change it up a little. Thanks for asking and for the encouragement. I really appreciate it.
Stay warm and safe.
Posted in Dogs, Small Town Life, tagged Dogs, snow on February 6, 2010| 1 Comment »
We are in the midst of our second really big snow fall of this season. The first one gave us a couple of feet of snow. And that was fun for a south Georgia girl like me who has never seen loads of snow before.
But here we are again. It started yesterday about 9 a.m. with a faint little light misty snow and it hasn’t stopped. It only got harder. And when I measured a few minutes ago we were up to 30 inches!!! That’s a lot of snow.
Truman is not a fan of snow.
He will go out and take a look if you make him.
And I make him because he can’t hold it forever. But he said let’s turn around and try the other steps off the deck to see if that is any better.
Gosh, it’s like a maze in here. How do I get to the other steps???
I don’t think it looks any better on this side, he says. Where are the steps???
Jed comes out to encourage Truman to go down the steps.
Truman turns back AGAIN!
You think it looks so easy, you go first!
I don’t have to go that bad. I think I’ll hold it a little bit longer. 😉
Posted in daily painter, Trivia, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painting, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, snow, Trivia, trivia question, Virginia Artist on January 14, 2010| 1 Comment »
“Miniature Snow and Fence” is an oil on 3″x5″ stretched canvas. This painting is available for $40 by contacting me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .
Today I am introducing a new series. Each Thursday I will try to answer a “trivia” question about art. I get questions all the time about little things related to painting. This is where I will address those questions. Who knows? Maybe we will learn something on Trivia Thursday!
Today’s question is about the different length of handles on brushes. Why are some brush handles longer than others? The short-handled brushes are generally for watercolor painting or painting where you sit close to the piece you are working on. Long-handled brushes are used mainly for oil painting. When painting oils you want to try to stand up at the easel. That way you can stand back from work and look at what it needs. If the brush has a longer handle then you can put paint on the canvas by standing back from it and seeing where it needs more work. Many instructors teach new painters to put one stroke on the canvas and walk back a couple of steps. Then decide where the next stroke of paint should go, put it on and walk back. This is why you see painters on tv stepping back and looking at the work, generally with their head cocked to one side. The head cock is optional. 🙂
Posted in daily painter, Dogs, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Dogs, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, snow, Virginia Artist on January 13, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Winter Trees is an oil on canvas panel measuring 6″x8″. It is available by contacting me.
I didn’t post for a few days because the “boys” and I went out to the cabin for a few days and we don’t have internet service there.
Truman and Jed enjoy running and playing there, off the leash, chasing whatever moves! Of course with all the snow still on the ground there Truman wasn’t as big on the running and playing as Jed was.
Truman walks out the front door and licks the snow. While Jed wants to run.
Here Jed is saying, “Look Mom, he’s blocking the way again!”
“I’m making a move now. Look; there is a frozen pond out there that needs checking out!”
Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged Art Class, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, snow, Virginia Artist on January 6, 2010| Leave a Comment »
A Walk in the Snow is an oil on 9″x12″ canvas panel that we did in art class. It is available by contacting me at kwalker@doubledogdesigns.com .
If you have ever wanted to learn to paint let me remind you that we have classes at the Blue Ridge Arts Council on Wednesday at 5 p.m. each week. All levels from beginner to advanced are welcome to join us. And if that time doesn’t suit you, just contact me to work out a time that will. I’d love to work with you so that you can enjoy creating paintings as much as I do.
Posted in daily painter, tagged daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, oil painting, Shenandoah Valley, snow, snowscene on December 22, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Tree Out Front is an oil on 6″x8″ canvas and is available for $95. We still have lots of snow and it makes everything look so different that I want to paint all the scenes with snow on them now. I’ll have to settle for taking photos to build my reference file.
This is the reference photo and how it looks on the easel with the painting. This photo was taken from my front door looking to the left down the street.
The Studio 
