Looking for Inspiration


I've been working like crazy on my website. I'd love to have it all cool and inspirational, and there are lots of my goofy but dear-to-my-heart youtube videos on that left bar... but it's still in need of a lot of work. I hope to put together lots of video on painting, both mine and the work of others. I've found it to be such a source of personal fulfillment and have seen what it can do for others.

The next book I'm working on is a short ebook on how to get inspired from your lackluster reference photos (NOT from photos on the internet!), and each of the sections is preceded by thoughts and stories from my own day-to-day life and how it intersects with art.

Share your thoughts with me!

Blessings, Susan
you can see my items at my website!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Winter Watercolor!

Image
Winter Watercolor Session is coming up!! I can't wait, and I've written a doc which has the landscapes we'll be using  which you can find here. I find that things work out best if we focus on some small "mini exercises" in the first hour of class: a piece of fruit, a wood texture, a tree, a mountain ridge...something simple which gives us the steam to do a small landscape painting in the second hour. A mini exercise is like this: or this: And a typical painting which we'll do in the second hour of class is like this: A little more involved: maybe some trees, some sky, some water, a few landscape elements which exist together on a page. We work on concepts like wet-into-wet vs. wet-on-dry, and we practice color mixing, how to handle your brushes, how to use enough paint and enough pigment in your paint, all of the basics. And, it's a blast! Come join us! You can call 770 781-2215 to sign up, and you can even just show up and pay $20
Read more

My Spring 2021 Art Newsletter with All Kinds of Arty Thoughts

Image
  Susan Kennedy Studio Spring Newsletter May 6, 2021 ____________________ Thank you for being a supporter or subscriber to my newsletter! “Study: Making it to the Edge of the Woods,” a new abstract in my Spring Show on my site I’d love to invite you to see my “Spring Show” paintings listed on my website gallery! (one of the paintings is shown above, and the paintings include my realism as well) I’d also REALLY love to invite you to check out and preorder at a temporary SUPER low price (or free if you have Prime) my new painting book “Painting Landscapes with Light and Depth ,  My new landscape book coming out this May a labor of love and an explanation of my thoughts and methods behind the realistic landscape painting which has dominated my artistic life. It comes out May 28, 2021! Scroll down to the bottom of this newsletter to see an excerpt, and find another one here on my blog .  An Artist’s Quandary – Spring 2021 Me with my beloved two genres So I’ve got a familiar situation th
Read more

Paper Mache Cow Head

Image
I don't know why why why working on this cow head has been inspiring, but it has been. A drama friend got a dried, bleached skull to me, and I gooped it up and started layering paper mache on top...mesmerizing! The cardboard and chopsticks won't stay in Milky White's ears, but they are keeping the ears from curling inward. As you might guess, this is for a "Milky White" puppet for Into the Woods, which is what our local troupe is doing. : ) But seriously, falling in love with the paper as a medium, and thinking all kinds of strange thoughts like maybe I should sculpt. And it's funny, building a cow head on the real skull makes me feel so much sympathy for the gentle animal that was using that skull! It does make me happy that she has another life on the stage now. Have to finish her up with some toilet paper cellulose clay and figure out in puppet terms how to make her jaw OPEN only when a mechanism is triggered. I think I have noodled it out, but it s
Read more