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Fan Stitch Baby Blanket

Posted in Crochet, tagged , , , , on March 3, 2014| 1 Comment »

CAM06538I have still been crocheting even though I have finished with the “hat project”.  Now it’s on to baby blankets.  I have several friends expecting babies soon so I thought I better get busy making gifts.  I have made a couple using this pattern – Fan Stitch Baby Blanket with Shell Border.  I have again tried to write out the pattern in case you are interested.  The pattern here is for the blanket on the right in the photo.  The other two I just continued using the blanket pattern but changed the color of the yarn.

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Family Treasures

Posted in Commissions, tagged , , , , on February 26, 2014| Leave a Comment »

P1010870 P1010868If you recall, I had an interesting commission before Christmas from a gentleman to paint three paintings for his family of scenes from North Carolina where they spent time as kids and that had meaning for them.  (See the posts for those paintings here, 2nd one here, and the last here.)  I got the nicest email from him this past week and he gave me permission to share it:

“I just got back from visiting my family in North Carolina and thought you would like to see us  (me, my brothers and my 97-year-old Mother) all holding our paintings. My youngest brother has promised to put them in rustic frames of Rhododendron he is making.  Thanks again.”
What a treat to hear this!  Thanks Worth.

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Book Demo Finished

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , , on February 24, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CAM06368I finally got back to the demonstration painting from the 1st Saturday Paint Party and finished it up.  I often start demo paintings while teaching and don’t get back to them to finish because I get busy helping students complete theirs.  I like this one and wanted to wrap it up.

The next 1st Saturday Paint Party is this Saturday, March 1 at 4 pm.  There are a few spaces left to paint a landscape this time so register today.

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More with Books

Posted in Art Class, Books, tagged , , , , , , on February 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »

CAM06317As I continue to work on the book series (I haven’t given up…just been misdirected for a week or so) we decided to paint a book with my young student yesterday.  Here is Ethan with a wonderful painting of an open book and glasses.  We painted side by side so you see his version on the left, mine on the right and the reference photo above my painting.

We decided a plain background was too dull so we put “wallpaper” on the wall behind our tables.   Great job Ethan!

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Book Still Life

Posted in Books, tagged , , , , , on February 13, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Books layed inI haven’t forgotten about the book still life I showed the sketch of a few days ago.  I finally had some time to lay in some color yesterday.

Here you can see the reference photo at the top, the painting on the easel and the palette at the bottom of the photo. There is still quite a bit to do to it but it’s shaping up nicely.

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Demo to Loosen Up Your Work

Posted in Abstract, Art Class, Tips for Better Painting, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 7, 2014| 5 Comments »

Warm-up Abstract

Warm-up Abstract

Warm-up Floral

Warm-up Floral

Warm-up Pear

Warm-up Pear

In our Wednesday morning adult art class this week I gave a demonstration on “Loosening up” your paintings.  I took a workshop several years ago from Robert Burridge, a terrific California painter and teacher, who taught us to do these warm-up paintings.  His idea is to line up 6-8 sheets of watercolor paper and then quickly lay on several colors of paint.  They will then all look like abstract paintings.  The second step is to paint out anything that doesn’t look like whatever subject you want the painting to be.  For instance, in the floral painting shown here I filled in background and added a vase.  Then I shaped up a few of the colors to look like flowers and leaves.  This entire process, all three of these paintings, took about 20 minutes.  This forces a painter to work quickly and loose.

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Tea Bag on Purple

Posted in Cup of Joe/Tea Time, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2014| 1 Comment »

Tea Bag on Purple

Tea Bag on Purple

 Tea Bag on Purple, acrylic, 6″x6″

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Cat

Posted in Pet Portaits, tagged , , , , , , on January 16, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Cat This is a commission that I did for a client who is giving it to her dad for his birthday today.  The cat’s name is Cat!  This painting is an acrylic on 11″x14″ canvas.  I sure hope he likes it.

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Tea Bag on Blue

Posted in Cup of Joe/Tea Time, tagged , , , , , on January 15, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Tea on Blue

Tea on Blue

 Tea Bag on Blue, acrylic, 6″x6″, soon to be available at Shenandoah Confections, Main Street, Front Royal.

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View from the Road, NC

Posted in daily painter, tagged , , , , , on January 14, 2014| Leave a Comment »

Mountain Road, NC

Mountain Road, NC

The final commission painting in the series of three I just completed is of a winding road through the North Carolina Mountains.  Mountain Road, acrylic, 8″x10″.

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