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Wonderful Artists at The Southerlands

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, fruit, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on April 11, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Miss Eyeleen working on her Strawberry painting

Miss Gaylor – the Queen of Strawberry paintings

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Donation to Warren County Government Center

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia Artist on April 9, 2013| 1 Comment »

In 2011 I taught an artist residency with kids at all five elementary schools to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of Warren County. We painted a large painting that each school now hangs for everyone to see. Read more about that project here and here.) For that project I painted a sample painting for the kids to see what it was that they would be producing during our time together. In the upper left corner of each painting that the school kids produced they painted their school.

I decided to paint out the school and paint the Government Center on the sample painting and then donate it to hang at the Center. Here is the completed painting. I am meeting Brandy at the Center this morning to hang the painting and I am very happy that they want to hang it right away. I’ll try to have some photos to share soon.

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Nationals Park

Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball park, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Landscape, MLB, Nationals Park, Virginia Artist on April 8, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Nationals Park
Washington Nationals

The painting of Nationals Park is about 95% finished. It is the first in the series of 30 Major League Baseball parks I am painting as part of my Kickstarter Project. If you haven’t looked at my project PLEASE take a minute to look and pledge to make the project a reality. Thanks!

Now back to the painting. I often get questions about the process of finishing a painting. The way I work is that I get a painting to a point where I feel like it’s done and then I hang it and live with it so that I can look at it for a while. That way I can see if there is anything that I want to tweak. Maybe there is something that needs to be made stronger or maybe there is something that needs eliminating in order for the painting to work. With this one I am at the “living with it stage”. Now on to paint Orioles Field at Camden Yards.

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Forsythia Means Spring

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, Virginia Artist on April 7, 2013| Leave a Comment »

Spring is finally peeking out and the kids painted “Forsythia” this week at class. And they did a very nice job! Now come on Spring so we have more flowers to paint.

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Talented Students

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, art lessons, daily painting, Virginia Artist on April 4, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I love seeing my students finish their paintings. They turn out so good and I love how the other students encourage one another.

Miss Eyeleen finished her barn in her class at The Southerlands yesterday. And Kathy is wrapping up this wonderful beach scene. After all the snow doesn’t it look like a place you would like to be. Great job girls!

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My Kickstarter Project Has Launched – Yikes!

Posted in daily painter, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, tagged acrylic, Baseball fields, daily painter, daily painting, Kickstarter-Painted Diamonds, Major League Baseball, Virginia Artist on April 3, 2013| 2 Comments »

I am so excited and so scared at the same time. I launched a Kickstarter project last night so the clock is ticking to make it work. My project is “Painted Diamonds – 30 Ball Parks in 30 Weeks“. I plan to paint every major league ball park between now and the World Series. You can click here to see the project.
If you are new to Kickstarter take a look. They promote their site as a new way to fund creativity. They only accept creative projects. An artist lays out the project, writes it up and submits it for approval. If approved, it launches on the Kickstarter website for the world to see and hopefully to fund.
Funding is all or nothing. If the project doesn’t reach its goal then no money is exchanged. And for whatever amount is pledged a reward is offered.
It sounds confusing but it really is not. Please take a look. I’m asking all my friends and followers to please share this post with your friends. The more people who see it the better chance I have of making it happen. I’ll be updating you as the month goes on. I’ll try not to bore you with it but I want to keep you posted on my progress.
So here we go. I have a month to get the word out. Thanks for your help and consideration.

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Palmer’s First Painting

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painter, impressionism, Landscape, Virginia Artist on March 29, 2013| Leave a Comment »

We had a fun art class with kids yesterday. This was Palmer’s first class with me. And didn’t he do a great job on his Capital View painting?! Terrific! And Zach did a wonderful painting as well. That’s Zach behind his painting. His mom won’t let me post his cute face. 🙂

Good job boys. Now what might we do next week?

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Shelly’s Poppy II

Posted in Art Class, tagged Art Class, Blue Ridge Arts Council, daily painter, flowers, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia Artist on March 28, 2013| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I shared with you Shelly’s Poppy (Check it out here). Here is the finished painting. Shelly is a wonderful painter with a great eye for color mixing. We’ve been painting together for a couple of years and it’s always lots of fun! Great job Shelly. This is your best yet!

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Fabulously Talented Artists at the Fine Arts Festival

Posted in Serendipity, tagged Art Class, Virginia Artist, Warren County Art Festival on March 24, 2013| Leave a Comment »

I really enjoyed my visit yesterday to the Fine Arts Festival at Warren County High School. It featured art from students in the entire school system. The art teachers are doing a terrific job with these kids.

Reece with Self Portrait

I ran into my friend Reece who showed me this wonderful self-portrait that he did. He turn 17 today! Happy Birthday Reece.

Logan’s Owl

I also saw art by one of my students, Logan. She drew a splendid owl. Great job Logan. There was so much to see! It was energetic and captivating. Wonderful job by the artists and their teachers.