It is part of an artist's job to see more intensely than most people do. She must have and keep in her something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or the traveler who enters a strange country.

 




 



 Watercolor Classes Planned

  • March 25 (Sunday 12-4) Plaza Art Supplies - Focus "Creating Texture with Watercolor"- Contact Plaza Art Supplies
  • April 6- May 25  Fridays 12-2; 8 weeks -all levels-Contact Hendersonville Arts Council


 

WELCOME TO SUSAN'S ART STUDIO



This is my first project for the Graduate Drawing Class that I am taking at Cumberland University. The focus of the class is mixed media. The first layer is acrylic. I painted over the acrylic with a pastel ground medium to give it texture and then I enhanced the composition with pastels. The subject matter is mostly from my head. When I was a child, the neighborhood kids would play tree tag in the evenings. The name of the painting is "Tree Tag".


Here is the latest watercolor painting that I finished.


October through November, I will have my first painting in a juried art show in Danville, Kentucky. This was a painting that I worked on in the graduate painting class at Cumberland University.

Here's my latest painting. It reminds me of the trees on the hill in our backyard.

I am still working on tree scenes and trying to have a very neutral black and white painting. It's hard. I like to get that color in. I am working on this painting in watercolor now. It is not finished yet. I still have the trees and the sky to finish, but I thought I would post it anyway.


This is a portrait composition as opposed to the landscape compositions of the last painting.

This is the latest version of the painting of the landscape version..






Painting #2 Cumberland. I am not finished with the trees yet. I will post the completed painting next week. This painting has really been work. I have never put 30 hours into a painting before. But then I have never painted such large paintings before. This is a 30 x 40 canvas.


Summer 2011-Graduate Painting Class

Here is my painting so far. It is not finished as it will have a lot of trees in it. I am using acrylics, my least favorite medium. But I am learning new things and loooove painting all day. We paint from 8-3 and then we have homework.



Spring 2011


This is our project on aquaboard. God helped me with this one. I had it outside spraying varnish on it when it started to rain. The varnish was still tacky so the water interacted with the varnish, toning the color down and adding more texture.






This stone bridge is in Goodlettesville. I put a couple of photographs together. The leaf reference was from a photo from my back yard. The painting was done on watercolor canvas.


This was our last project. We painted a still life on masa paper. The surface is somewhat unpredictable.


The heron was painted on hot press paper with emphasis on negative painting.


The baby bird was also done on hot press paper

The house is a historical house on Long Hollow Pike. It was painted on Wallis pastel paper with watercolor, pastel and watercolor. The directions that came with the Wallis paper specified that it was not suitable for watercolor, so of course I had to prove them wrong. It has a very nice tooth for watercolor pencils especially.


The pear still life was watercolor on Wallis paper.




Summer 2010

I've been painting more lately, mostly on the weekends. I'm practicing some of the techniques from the summer workshop. I have two paintings that are in progress and finished up a couple last weekend. The old truck is watercolor on the aqua board. The inspiration was a photo that I took in Jonesborough when Charlie got lost on the way home from Rachael's house. This painting in in the Monthaven Art Show through December.

The  red house and barn was painted on cold press watercolor paper that had several coats of gesso on it. It's the second time that I painted the scene. This time the house and barn are larger and I worked on the tree foliage technique.



 Watercolor Paintings from Alexis Lavine's Workshop in Boone , North Carolina.
The theme was painting on surfaces other than cold press paper.
The last painting Friday was completed on masa paper.


On Monday the project was to paint on hot pressed paper, which is very smooth.



Tuesday's project was aquaboard, a textured surface on masonite board.The truck was painted on aquaboard (clayboard).


Wednesday: The barn with sunflowers was painted on watercolor canvas. Once I got the sky in, the rest of the painting was a breeze. I spent over an hour on the sky and cloud.

Thursday:The next painting was on cold press paper which had several coats of gesso on it. The paper was prepared several days ahead of time so that the dried gesso acted as a barrier to the watercolor.

This was the class demo project on gessoed cold press paper. I finished this at home yesterday.


A painting of "Old Brick" across from Worshams.

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Spring is finally here.

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I paint regularly and usually have a couple of paintings going at the same time. I post my paintings in the  "My Journal"  area as I finish them. All paintings are for sale so if you see something you like, contact me at susansstudio@comcast.net

LET IT SNOW

A winter scene for Inspire Me Thursday

This is my studio when it is clean (almost never)

Here is my studio the way it looks most of the time.