Susan Kennedy Art

Love love love this photo of mine: the light, the water, the glass, the red of the little flowers! They are the tiny dianthus that my Brian brought me for Mother's Day. We're going to paint a simplified version of this subject matter tomorrow at Fowler Park in Watercolor class!  A new watercolor session will be starting in June, so sign up if you want to learn a lot about treating this fascinating medium with the boldness, respect and sheer delight that it deserves!! Susan _________ call 770 781-2215 to inquire or sign up for Susan Kennedy's classes

This painting was my obsession for a few weeks: I loved the surreal surroundings as we walked around the resting place of the U.S.S. Cairo in Vicksburg last year. I wanted to zoom in and focus on the beautiful wood and the dreamy blues and greens bouncing around as well. It's actually for sale on ebay right now, I thought I'd pay attention to my old ebay store:  click here to see it . The subject itself seemed surreal to me, too: the ironclad was thought impossibly strong and unsinkable in its time, but I guess like all technologies, it had its time, and its time passed. That was the reason for the title "Outliving Ironclad Promises." So it's sitting in a quiet grassy field, with some of the battle sites nearby. None of the drama, the blood, the fear and the anger of that time is left, only worm-eaten wood and curious history buffs. I found the light and the strange situation irresistable as a painter! During the Civil War the Cairo was one of the Union...