A New Year!

I am honored to be invited to be the featured artist at the Lubbock, TX arts festival sponsored by the Lubbock Arts Alliance. The theme is Red White and Blue! One of my favorite themes. I started painting flags about 1990. I still love adding them to my work whether it is a still life or just an addition to something. Even just using those colors is fun to do.

If you are in the area April 9-10 stop by and say hello!

Summer Time

 Living on the farm makes you realize how much you need and love tractors! The sound, the smell, the memories! Not to mention we have John Deere tractors.What a wonderful life it is on the farm, even in the really hard years you still love it.  We live on the Powell Family farm, and live in the farm house that was put here in 1954.  I have loved living here even though I wasn't raised on the farm.  It has been a wonderful life raising our 2 kids!

The Singer

This man was Lauries Goldstein-Warren's  photo.  She is teaching the online course.  For me it is hard to copy some one else's drawing. I wanted to follow along step by step.

New Work

I have been working pretty hard trying to improve on my painting. I wish it wouldn't take so long! I have so much to learn.
I started an 8 week  online class  with Laurie Goldstein Warren and have enjoyed it a lot.
 We have 2 online demos a week and once a week a zoom meeting. We are using liquid watercolors or acrylic. Our choice.  All of these are watercolor.  If you paint or want to learn, she is an awesome teacher, mentor and friend.

The Church sold and that is exciting when someone likes your work enough to pay for it!  I will be selling all of these for the same price. They are big. They will frame out about 22x28 or 30x32 'ish'.
1. Junk Yard
2. Monday Wash
3.Santa Fe, NM
4.Reflections
5.Abandoned

You will find the Baby wrapped in Swaddling Cloths

I have been working on a few new Christmas Images.  I try to have some new ones each year.
This one is done with acrylics. I am still experimenting with different ideas. It is painted on heavy paper.

The Dancer

I am still working on the Hand online class. This is the second painting, using 2 hands.  The instructor made hers with a bathing suit and big legs, but  i turned mine into a dancer  It was such fun. I started by drawing on my 100 lb paper, then I went over it with white gesso.  After that was dry I used a large alphabet stencil that I love. I painted over it with the turquoise and purple.
 Then from there I drew my figure, and then painted using acrylics and a 2" brush.
 I only used 3-4 colors.  White, buff, flesh, red oxide and a little red.  The background is purple and turquoise.
I drew the image with a charcoal pencil, then painted with out using any water. Just  a moist brush and paint. This was so much fun.  It is big. 20x26. 

Hand Online Class

I love hands. I always look at peoples hands.  I believe they tell a story.
I saw a class offered. Just 6 sessions and I have really enjoyed it. The only thing is they are done with acrylics and I hate to wash brushes.
hand #1, hand #2 and  hand#3

Louisiana Watercolor Society Show

I am grateful that the judge chose two of my entries for the show in November.  It will be in Covington LA.

Bad Hair Day and Purple Cactus were accepted.  This is my first time in their show.

New Work

I have been working on some portraits as well as some other ideas.  I have already done a paper collage of this girl from Memphis but I wanted to do a watercolor of her. So far I have named it 'Memphis' like the other one until I can think of something else!
The clothes line is a painting from a clothes line I saw in Italy. The title is 'Full Moon'
THe bottom one is 'Purple Cactus' painted using watercolor and gouache.

The Tattoo

My cousin was at the beach and someone took a great photo of her. I ask if I could try to paint it. I am not as happy with it as I would like, and I may try to do it again. Staci is so pretty, and was fun trying to portray her.  This is watercolor on Fabriano watercolor paper.

More Confetti Flowers

I am still filling the sketchbook with the flowers. I have sold 4 of them. I decided why not!  I love the paper and so what if its in a book? I just carefully  remove the page.  Blue and White Stripe Vase ,
A Sticky Situation and Yellow and Purple.

Cuba January 2020

 CUBA 2020

 Jan.9-19,2020 we are taking a group of sketchers/artists to Cuba. 

If you are interested you need to 

sign up soon.The space is limited.

 If You do not want to sketch or paint 

 you don't have to. 

You may want to photo everything!

Just come along for the trip and

 witness an unbelievable country.

The details are

http://www.exploreamazingplaces.com/paint-cuba-with-suzy-powell-brochure

Colorful City

I took a workshop with Kristy Patterson from Oklahoma on making gelli prints.  You have wasted acrylic paint that you clean of your brayer, and mine ended up being a fun cityscape. It wasn't planned, until at the end of the day I saw what was there on the paper! I cut out the entire shapes and glued to a 24x36 canvas, and then added some more paint and pieces to it.  It was such fun working on it.  I hated for it to end. Now start something new. 

Crazy Cactus

Here is another collage, watercolor that I am experimenting with.  You can find these on Daily Paintworks for sale.

Daily Paintworks

New experiment

I have been experimenting  painting flowers, and i have been adding a lot of different things to them.
I don't consider myself a flower painter so I added paper and gouache to see what it would look like.
It has been fun. I have done several.
I have posted these on 'DailyPaintworks' for Sale .
Here is the address to my art.

 Daily Paintworks

This Red Tulip sold.

Sketches for December

This is just some December sketches.  The nativity scene was from a hospital scene. The snowman was from a grocery store.  The pink Pointsettia was drawn with a new pen from a friend with new pink ink.