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Baking

Posted in daily painter, Private Lesson, Still Life, tagged baking, still life on March 4, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Sophia Sophia and I painted a little piece we call “Baking” yesterday during her private lesson. She did a GREAT job!

Baking And I like how mine turned out, too.

Famous Painters-Pissaro

Posted in Paint Party, Still Life, tagged Pissaro, still life on November 25, 2015| Leave a Comment »

12299335_1052749538091851_4773032525122517321_n We had our Famous Painters Party last night at The Studio. Our painters recreated a beautiful Pissaro still life painting. Great work ladies!

Our Famous Painter series is every 4th Tuesday at 6 pm. We recreate a famous painting each time. Join us! The next might be Matisse.

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Pissarro Still Life

Posted in Private Lesson, Still Life, tagged Pissarro, private lesson, still life on October 20, 2015| 1 Comment »

Sophia Paints a Pissarro

The last two weeks Sophia and I painted a copy of this Pissarro Still Life during her private lesson. Didn’t she do a fabulous job?

Pissarro Still Life with Apples and Pitcher

This is the painting we will be doing for the November Famous Painters Paint & Sip on Tuesday, November 17th. Why not join us?

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Kids Paint Pears

Posted in Art Class, tagged kids class, pear, still life on April 30, 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Kid’s Painting Class painted a wonderful still life yesterday of pears. Great job everyone!!!

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Still Daily Painting

Posted in daily painter, Dogs, Farm Animals, tagged art lessons, chicks, daily painter, Dogs, farm animals, fruit, hen, Rescue dogs, Shenandoah Valley Artist, still life, Virginia Artist on March 7, 2015| 5 Comments »

An idea for an upcoming Retreat painting that is just sketched in

A Pet Portrait commission in progress

An art class demo that needs just a little more work

I get questions all the time about “daily painting”. The most often asked is “Do you paint every day?” And the answer is “almost”. When I first joined the daily painting movement I did paint every day. And I completed a different small painting everyday….for a long time. I did this for about 4 years. Then I started working on larger paintings and while I painted every day I didn’t complete one each day.

But then I started offering other types of classes besides painting so it required me to create in other formats (like crocheting, multi-media, etc.) to prepare for classes so now my answer is that I create something everyday. It may not always be a painting like it was in the beginning but I do something creative each and every day.

Right now I have a couple of paintings that I am working on that still need a little work to be finished. Here are a couple. You will hopefully see the finished paintings soon.

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The Cookie Jar

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, antique cookie jar, Cookie Jar, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, still life, Virginia Artist on April 4, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Cookie Jar Painting

I am often asked how I find things to paint every day. I never have any trouble finding something to paint. There are just so many things all around that I want to try to paint. From time to time I will set up an area with my camera and shoot lots of photos of “common” things for reference photos. I recently did this with a cookie jar that had been given to my parents as a wedding gift and that my mom gave to me years ago. I always have fond memories of it because Mama always had it sitting on the breakfast bar in the kitchen with something good in it for us when we got home from school each day. I treasure that cookie jar.

Cookie Jar Reference Photo

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No Time to Paint

Posted in daily painter, tagged fruit, still life on December 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

No time to paint yesterday as I was traveling. VACATION….finally! WooHoo. Going to enjoy some time off but, of course, when you produce art for a living you still see art and paintings everywhere you look. You just can’t shut it off so this morning I saw this still life in the kitchen. 🙂 Maybe I will paint it.

I am hoping to gather some reference photos today and visit an art exhibit or two. More to come…

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Wine and Cheese

Posted in Wineries, tagged acrylic, cheese, daily painter, daily painting, still life, Virginia Artist, Winding Road Cellars, Wine, wine and cheese on November 1, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Still working on a few more paintings to take out to Winding Road Cellars. Be sure to make time to go out and visit this new winery. Not only is it beautiful out there but the wine is worth the visit! This little painting is called “Wine and Cheese”. It is a 6″x6″ on board and is framed and available for $95.