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!

Smoke'n Canon

I did this for a photographer friend in Lubbock. She took some art photos, and we exchanged our crafts! It was fun to have the photo taken...and it was fun to create this piece for her.

Windmill

I wanted to try a new method on my collage, so I cut the pieces into rectangles and some squares.  I thought a windmill would be a good thing to experiment with. It was unbalanced I thought so I added a couple of black birds.  I tried blue in the sky and didn't care for it, so I went back to the white.

It is 18x18 on stretched canvas.  It was fun to do, thinking about what a precious commodity our water is , and unfortunately is dwindling in our area.

Midland Texas Workshop

I was invited to come to Midland Texas to teach a three day collage class.  It is March 8-10.
Here is the info.  If you are interested in attending i will send you the contact name.

Cost of class- $175.00,

 $100 deposit (+ $50 membership for non-members) by February 15, 2016 to hold a seat. (credit/debit not accepted)

Check payable to Midland Palette Club, note Suzy Powell Workshop.

Mail to Midland Palette Club
            P.O. Box 9456
            Midland, TX 79708

I am teaching a 2 day here in my little studio April 29-30. If you are interested in coming to Plains, let me know.  The cost is $100.

Let's Go!

I am going to be at the Petticoats on the Prairie next week end so I did another Camper.
The Sisters on the Fly will be there set up with their vintage campers.  We will do a collage workshop Saturday night after it is over. I know it will be fun! This is 8x24 on stretched canvas.

Original Collage Art on Calendars

I decided to add 2 more to the calendars. The top one is all torn paper collages. 

Some have been sold, some won awards.  They are basically my favorites!

The second one is nothing but Coffee cups. I did a series of these. 

They are all torn paper collages also.

The Deadline on ordering is December 15th to get in time for Christmas

Original Collages

Quantity

Collage Calendar $20.00 USD Coffee Cups $20.00 USD

Collage Workshop in Plains, TX

Sandy, Nancy, Bob, Olene, Alice, Reta and Jane

 

 

 

I had a great class this past week end.  They all jumped in and tore up lots of magazine pages!

When it got quite, that is all you could hear, was paper ripping. Was such fun!

They all had a great portrait when they finished.  There were 7. Sandy Oveson came all the way from DeKalb TX, Bob and Nancy Phillips from Roswell, NM, Alice Hahn from Eunice, NM, Olene Harris from Tatum, NM, and Jane Phillips and Reta Nail from Lubbock,TX.Alice chose her husband Troy to collage. Bob did a self portrait, and Nancy collaged a cute picture of her Mother.  Olene collaged her Grandson, Jane a basketball player and Reta a family member.  Sandy did a cupcake, then started on some tuba players from a parade. I was proud of all their hard work!

 
Jane and Reta
Troy-Alice's Husband

Bob and Nancy

 

 

Sandy Oveson

 

 

Two Sisters, laughing all day
Olene and Alice

Take Time to Smell the Flowers

I started this torn paper collage as a demo in my one of my mini workshops, then continued for demo's in  Brownfield, Plains, and Clovis NM.

Seems like it has taken forever to get it done. Since it has a little flower on her nose, I thought the title would fit.  I hope I take the time to smell the 'flowers' everyday. There are so many beautiful and exciting things around us each day, that I am afraid I miss a lot!

This is on a 16x20on stretched Canvas.

Hair Stuff

I have a great hair stylist...Danny, from
Lubbock, and no matter when I call, he always gets me in.  He asked me the last time I was in, if I would do him a collage for his space. He has Red, Orange and Purple...and wanted the hair dryer and scissors for sure on it.
I thought it needed the timer on it too! As always there are some hidden things in it.
It is 20x20 on stretched Canvas.

This next CFAI Visual Magazine will have a critique of my work in it by an Art Critic from NY, Hall Groat II. Here is what he said about my work. It was a pretty short critique.  The critiques he has done of other artists were lengthy, so I was sort of shocked when mine was just a paragraph! Not that I wanted a long one, it just wasn't what I was expecting! He picked out his favorite of my collages, and I wouldn't have thought he would choose the patriotic clown! Plus add Witty as a description of my work. I looked the word 'witty' up and it said humorous or clever. I would like to think that maybe my work would create a smile or be clever!
Thanks Mr. Groat, I appreciate your taking the time to check out my art!
When you have time, you can check it out.     Suzy Pal Witty art  

Or read it below:

Suzy Pal Powell’s Witty Art

Suzy Pal Powell’s Witty Art
By Hall Groat II
Texas-based artist, Suzy Powell strikes the eyes and seduces the minds of viewers through her colorful contemporary pop culture watercolors and mixed-media collages. Her bold, luminous work has a larger than life, iconic quality to it. The geometry in of itself is as interesting as the epic images she depicts. One of my favorite pieces is a 12×16 inch torn paper collage, entitled Patriotic Clown.
This highly inventive, satirical piece is quite apropos as we approach the November 2012 election here in the United States. Yes, indeed, politics is certainly like a circus this day and age—what’s the next act?
Ms. Powell’s torn paper collages evoke the sociopolitical wit of Bearden in a huge way.
I’ve always been fan of Romare Bearden’s collages from the early 20th century Harlem Renaissance, which was a cultural movement that took place during the 1920’s and 1930’s in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.
If you ever travel through Suzy Powell’s neck of the woods in Texas be certain to check out her
witty art.
Patriotic Clown, torn paper collage, 12×16

Demo in Clovis NM

 I was invited to Pintores Art League in Clovis NM to demo and bring some of my art.  I had already started the zebra, but continued to work on it, so they could see the technique. I took some of the   collages  with the phone book pages, and gouache along with some watercolors. They were a friendly bunch and very attentive. It is always fun to get to go share with fellow artists!

Demo for Yoakum County Art Association

I got to do the demo last night for our art asc. here in Plains, and it was a lot of fun.
I have been a member since the late 80's! I think I have held every office there is! When I joined I knew nothing about art except that I loved it, and wanted to paint so bad.  I had always drawn and doodled....always staying busy 'making or creating' something.  I am sad to say that several of the women who were awesome artists that helped me so much, are no longer with us. I learned a lot from those women who had been right where I was at that time.They were always so encouraging!  I hope that I can be a mentor also, and help those who are just starting.  I love to share whatever I have learned.
This poor zebra has a ways to go, but I will keep on, until I think it will be ok! Maybe I will post him when he or she  is finished.

I will be in Clovis, NM tomorrow night, doing a demo.  Think I need to start something else, since this poor guy is not looking so good!

Time to Dance

Time To Dance

10x10

Another Red and Black...The stiletto was harder to do than the boot! But was fun creating it anyway.

I plan on doing a couple more.  I have started a red one, but am out of time on getting it finished!

1/2 Off Sale!

This is the second Manikin ...putting clothes on her made me think of my paper doll days!  And do you remember Betsy McCall? I couldn't wait for my Mother to get her McCall s magazine and turn to the very back and get the paper dolls out of the back with the newest fashions!  Those memories came back as I was working on these two! I still have a couple more different ones yet. They are such fun.
This Manikin was also in the Chrome store in Lubbock.

Workshop in Lubbock

This past week end we had a 2 fun days in Lubbock! There were 9 there, and we had so much fun tearing  up paper, and creating. It is such a blessing to see people's creativity come out.  Everybody does things so different. They all see color differently, and that makes it interesting.

 We had our two day workshop this week end. We had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs! This is Allison with her sock monkey, that she did for her class room.  It turned out sooo cute!  I hope she does some more to go with it.

 This is Alice with her glass...She is always so much fun. She just can't have too much coffee! I love it when Alice can come and join in. She also did some cups. She lives in New Mexico.

This is Wilma with her woman that she was working on.  She was a blast to have in the workshop.  She seemed to be having so much fun.
she also did some cups the first day, then this was her second day.
Wilma is Allison's Mom. They are from Lubbock.

This is the whole group. Sue Chambers from Canyon on the left. (She left before we got photos with their work). Sue brought some beautiful collages to show us! I wish I gotten her photo with hers. Maybe next time!   Alice Hahn , Allison Robertson, Wilma Edwards and  Carol and Buddy Compton.

 Buddy with his boot.  He is a wood worker, and this will be a lazy Susan. He is going to trim away the corners and put wood around the edge. I am anxious to see how it comes out. 





This is Carol with her cup. It was such fun having them in the class.
 they all did such a great job. I always enjoy seeing what everybody comes up with! Carol was a joy to be around. She and Buddy are from Colorado City, TX.

Internet Magazine-Artists of Texas

I have 4 pieces of Torn paper Collage on pages 40-44.I didn't know how to get this on my blog, so you will have to click on it twice. When it opens, it will be in Pinterest. Then click it again.
Sorry for the inconvience.

The Trio

I am back to collage again for a while. Getting ready for another workshop coming up March 7-9th. There may be a couple of openings if you are interested in coming. I wanted to do some thing with some color.

A Touch of Red

A Touch of Red is another attempt of doing glass. This is just a 5x7, and worked up pretty fast. I tried to add a lot of reds in the background but was distracting I thought, so I just added a couple little touches.