Cloudcroft Art Workshops

I am excited that I was invited to go to Cloudcroft NM and teach sketching at their wonderful old building and great little town. The weather is awesome and is so refreshing to be there.
The workshop will be June 3-6. There is a reception on Sunday June 2, at 6 PM.


http://www.cloudcroftart.com/artists/powell/index.htm


 



Watercolor and Ink Sketchbook Memories
Using your photos, pen, ink, watercolor, gouache and/or casein in the comfort of the studio you will create wonderful memory books that you and your family will treasure forever. This workshop is great for those wanting to create a sketchbook habit, or those struggling with sketching and drawing. Especially beginner sketchers. Your sketchbook style will become like your handwriting, your own personal mark. Suzy believes anybody can draw with practice, just like learning to write.

I will also furnish photos from Cloudcroft and we will work along together making a book with our photos, or you can bring your own photos and work from them.
Being married to a farmer, living on the family farm in west Texas, Suzy has been painting for 30 years working in pastel, pencil, watercolor, gouache, acrylic and collage. She didn’t attend schools that taught art. Learning on her own in her backyard studio has allowed her to teach what she loves and enjoys, in Texas, New Mexico, Italy and in 2020 Poland and Italy. Her favorite thing is keeping a daily sketchbook, and nostalgic and patriotic art. She has won numerous awards and teaches monthly watercolor classes, workshops using watercolor, collages and sketching. She has been in 3 of the North Light Incite mixed media books, as well as the Sketch Book Magazine when it was being published.
Christopher Cross, the singer, purchased one of her watercolor paintings to use on his Christmas album. She is signature members of SWS, AOT, SWA, NMWS, and WYWS. Affiliate member of AWS and NWS.

Another week of Sketches

I am sketching in a spiral sketchbook now, since i have had a few people want to buy my sketches.

This way I can take them out of the book with out messing up the entire book, etc.

One of my sketches went to Oklahoma!  It is a cabin from the Cloudcroft trip.

The dark brown one is painted on a brown envelope.  The Mennonite girls were in Cloudcroft, waiting for lunch.  The old car that I did twice is somewhere in Arkansas.

Cloudcroft, NM fun

I have been doing small little paintings of Cloudcroft from our fun trip in August.

We painted in class all day, and drove around and took photos. Had a wonderful Barb B Q Dinner, Dinner at the Lodge, that has a scary history! We went out to the old Trestle one afternoon.
We had pizza one night, Not to mention our sandwiches we had for lunch from the Dollar Store.
We had lots of art talk and laughs at night.
Linda Carter had wonderful Breakfast at the Burro Street Boarding House. 
Joyce Hicks is a wonderful artist and person. We all loved her and of course love her art.
She gave away a lot of her small demos and on the last day painted a larger painting of flowers and I won it. I am so proud to have it. If you ever have a chance to go to Cloudcroft you should go! a very small but wonderful little place.