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Tiger Cubs Painting Class

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, daily painting, impressionism, oil painting, River, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on April 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago one of the moms of one of my Thursday Young Artists asked if I might teach her Tiger Cub scouts a lesson in color mixing and painting.

Last Wednesday, we held that class. Here they are working on their painting. That’s my friend Shelly helping me with the large group.

They were very enthusiastic and seemed to really enjoy painting. The only mishap was when I accidentally dropped a paint brush on one boys head when I was trying to help him. No permanent damage, just a little green paint in his hair. Oops!

They did a terrific job…eight beautiful paintings of the mountain and river!

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Spring Trees in Bloom

Posted in Art Class, tagged acrylic, Art Class, art lessons, flowers, impressionism, Virginia, Virginia Artist on April 13, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The Young Artists groups painted Spring Trees in Bloom last week at their classes. They all did great work. And aren’t we glad spring has sprung!

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Day 4 – Art Residency- Finish & Party

Posted in Art Class, daily painter, tagged 175th Anniversary of Warren County VA, acrylic, Art Class, Art Residency, daily painter, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist on March 24, 2011| 1 Comment »

On the 4th and final day of the Art Residency we finished up our paintings! Yeah. And then we took a class photo. These are the wonderful 4th graders from A. S. Rhodes who created this beautiful painting.

Didn’t they do a great job!

And this is the class of 4th graders from Hilda J. Barbour Elementary school who painted this terrific painting….

Fabulous!!!

The very last thing we did together was have a little cupcake birthday party to celebrate the birthday of Warren County.

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Art Residency Project Progressing

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, Art Residency, barn, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary, Warren County Virginia on March 15, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The next step in the process for the Art Residency project was to start sketching out the different elements. And then to paint.

Here you can see the beginning of A. S. Rhodes Elementary school, the Gazebo, the entrance sign to Shenandoah National Park and a barn. Look closely and you will see the Courthouse is sketched in as well.

And today I actually start the project with the kids at A.S. Rhodes Elementary and Hilda J. Barbour Elementary. Can’t wait to meet the 16 kids at each school. Hopefully they will be excited about painting and about the project.

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Another Really Big Project…

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged acrylic, Art Residency, daily painting, impressionism, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Warren County 175th Anniversary, Warren County Virginia on March 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »

As if the “Bark for the Park” series wasn’t a big enough project for this year, I have started another one. I am teaching an art residency at the five elementary schools here in Warren County. We will be painting a piece to depict the 175th Anniversary of Warren County. I’ve had to do quite a bit of research in order to tie the project into the History SOL’s for 4th grade as well as come up with interesting pictures for the kids to paint. Over the next few days I will show the progress of the sample painting that I did. Then, hopefully, I will be able to share the paintings that the kids finish.

The finished painting will be 4’x4′. Each of the 16 students selected at each school will paint one 12″x12″ panel. In order to plan a layout, I laid out a paper drawing with 16 equal squares.

Then I wrote in what I thought would work.

After having the initial design idea in place, I prepared the actual canvas that I would paint the sample on and started laying in printouts of the ideas on the canvas to see if they would work together. It was sort of like a puzzle. Stay tuned for more….

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Twins!

Posted in Small Town Life, tagged daily painter, deer, fawns, Virginia, Virginia Artist on July 14, 2010| Leave a Comment »

There are the cutest twins in our neighborhood. Jed and I see them daily when we take our early morning walk. A few days ago I caught this shot of them with their mom in front of my neighbor, Clara’s house. She waters early and they like the morning drink.

They, along with about a dozen other deer, we see on a regular basis in the yard. It’s sad that they don’t have a better place to live. I’m worried that the little ones will get hit by a car driving by. Hopefully people will be on the lookout for them.

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Stone Wall

Posted in daily painter, tagged acrylic, daily painter, daily painting, impressionism, Landscape, pickett fence, Shenandoah Valley, Stone Fence, stone wall, Virginia, Virginia Artist on May 28, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Stone Wall with Picket Gate is an acrylic on canvas measuring 24″x30″ and is available for $325.

Have a safe Memorial Day!

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Your chance to paint at the Art Walk

Posted in daily painter, tagged 3rd Thursday Art Walk, Abstract, abstract art, acrylic, art lessons, Art Walk, daily painter, Shenandoah Valley, Small Town Life, Virginia, Virginia Artist on May 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »

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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A Great Festival

Posted in daily painter, Small Town Life, tagged daily painter, daily painting, Festival, impressionism, oil painting, Virginia, Virginia Artist, Virginia wineries, Wine Festival on May 17, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Saturday was a beautiful day for a festival and we had a great one downtown Front Royal. The Wine & Craft Festival brought lots of people to Main Street and many stopped by to see us at Delilah’s.

And I worked on several paintings that day. I even had a couple of children who helped paint a little.

I used to get really nervous painting in front of others but now that I have done it so often it doesn’t bother me. I enjoy it in fact. People generally have interesting questions about painting and are very encouraging.

We had a drawing for those who came into Delilah’s to register and this was our winner. Sheron Nicodemus from Richmond was the lucky one and this was the painting she selected. I got to spend a few minutes chatting with Sheron and she was just delightful. Congratulations!