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New Upcoming Book on Painting Landscapes with Light and Depth (for Oil and Acrylic Painters)

March 24, 2021

Painting Landscapes with Light and Depth I'm so happy to be nearing the end of my new larger eBook on painting landscapes in oil and acrylic! It's a summation of more than 10 years as a fine art instructor and 40 years as an artist. The focus of the book is sharing my ideas about conveying realism through lighting and depicting spatial depth. I illustrate the book with hundreds of photos of paintings, as well as photos of materials, and a number of illustrations about perspective technique. Here is an excerpt for my blog readers: If you would like to preorder this book which will be available on May 28, click here . Excerpt - Chapter 5: Conveying Depth Creating a painting which inspires a viewer to remember the feeling of a place or a time in their memory is probably the unstated aim of many landscape painters. If the art is realistic in style, all sorts of unspoken rules are consulted in judging it: is there an impression of distance? Do the colors look real? Are the relat

Painting a Dump Truck and Liking it

May 14, 2015

You can tell I'm in my artistic adolescence...I'm destroying old paintings and painting dump trucks and abstracts! (see dump truck above). I'm having such a blast digging through piles of - literally - hundreds of paintings, altering some, finishing all, putting lots of ebay (look for seller "susankennedy")...I'm becoming worried that I'm going to drop dead and my poor husband or children will have to dig through my mess and wonder why I had to be so disorganized. BUT... it IS getting better! I think I'll post next about changing the landscape below from a very simple oil demo done for class, into a fresher knife painted landscape/abstract which is more fun. I think I did this to about eight paintings yesterday, my kitchen was a mess. Smiling. Check out all of the ones which have made it to my "Make an Offer" ebay listings by clicking here , or just go to ebay and search for ebay seller "susankennedy". Thanks for look

New Paintings on Ebay, my gallery for the time being! Abstract Painting Landscape and small watercolor paintings too

April 10, 2015

You guys, I'm putting a big pile on Ebay again, boy it's cleanup time. I'm unhappily turning into an abstract painter, but still don't see why I should let go of landscape. Ha, I'm writing a little book about it. It's probably easy to tell that the abstracts have my interest, they just seem more narrative and poetic than the realist landscapes. Why, I just don't know. I guess a landscape can tell a story, but it's not as impulsive and easy as an abstracted landscape or a pure abstract. Which my daughter insists I NEVER do. So...here are a couple that are there in my ebay listings. Even a floral: If you'd like to look at them all (they're all for sale, in fact please just make me a fair offer!) you can look here. Thanks, and check in later!

Tons of paintings at Art And Soul Show/Fundraiser this Weekend in Cumming!

November 28, 2014

see all of my show paintings or check out my website You guys, come out to The Vine Community Church this coming weekend (Dec 5 and 6) for the Art and Soul show and fundraiser...I'll have ton of stuff there! 30% of every sale goes toward some of our ministries for women and children: Abba House, Vijiji House of Light orphanage in Kenya, and The Hope Tree Adoption ministry here in Cumming. The art show and sale will be open Friday night from 4-10 P.M. and Saturday from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. There are also speakers and a jazz concert and dinner Friday evening, so check out http://www.artandsoulnga.com/about-the-show/ to find out more. The Vine is at 4655 Bethelview Rd, Cumming GA I'll have a rather large pile of paintings here, first time in quite a while that I've done a show like this. Eh, maybe 20 years? The whole group of paintings, large and small, that I will have at the show, are in thi

Humbled and Inspired by a Watercolor Student

October 13, 2014

This beautiful watercolor sketch was done by a beautiful lady I met in my watercolor class today. I have never been so inspired and touched by the courage and determination of a person walking in those doors. Kathy (I don't even know if I'm spelling her name correctly) came in with a friend. They sat down together to work on the exercises I showed the students in my class and it was apparent that Kathy had trouble handling brushes and difficulty speaking. I thought that perhaps she had had a stroke and was very moved by her determination to mix washes and put brush to paper. But when her friend started Kathy's story from this difficult year - and Kathy finished it in her halting voice, I was blown away that this strong woman was sitting in front of me. Debbie (the friend) told me that Kathy started out the spring of 2014 with the loss of her mother, and then in the summer began to have symptoms and was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). In the space

CLEARING out paintings, come check out all my ebay original artwork and Make An Offer!

August 08, 2014

Well, a bit cleaning out of the closets is way way overdue, so if you want to see paintings I've clearanced at 25 to 50% off, check out my listings I'm about to throw a dozen or so watercolors in there too, so check back in a few days. The ones shown below are a couple of these. Thanks for checking out work Herevare my items on Ebay!

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