Some of my Art on Check Advantage Checks!

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from a man in Wisconsin, wanting to use some of my old vehicle paintings on their checks. I am excited to announce they are ready to purchase.  There are Flags, old cars, animals, and my new Garden Series, along with cupcakes and coffee cups. They also have matching check book covers to go with them.

Here are a few ....

http://new.checkadvantage.com/suzy-pal-powell-bio

Check them out and share with your friends!

Watercolor Class

We have started back with a watercolor class again in Plains. We plan on meeting once a month.
We had a lot of fun and laughs! And..one...brought some chocolate! yum!
I only got photos back from 4 of them, hopefully I will get photos next time. We have 11 signed up.
These paintings were done by Uvonne Morgan, Kathy Grant, Jane Phillips and Wadonna Davis. They did a sketch first, then using a small format, with an under-painting of cobalt blue, perm rose, and new gambouge, trying to leave some white.

Water Lily

 This is the original Sketch done with ink.  I have always thought they would be very difficult to draw and paint, so I have not tried them until now. I did 2 because I wasn't happy with the first one!

This is the first one, I thought the paint was a little too heavy, so I tried it again. It may be too pale!

All Dressed up and No Place to Go!

I decided to do a painting of the frog sketch.  This is the fifth one of the 'Meet Me in the Garden' series.  I enjoyed painting each one. I love all the color!

Snappy Turtle

Here is another 'Meet me in the Garden' series.

'Snappy turtle'

Done like the others with a sketch, and decorative papers

and matte medium, then Watercolor and gouache.

Bubbles-Meet me in the Garden Series

Here is the fourth of the 'Meet me in the Garden' Series.  After doing the first one, I was hooked and wanted to do the others. These were all done from my sketches. After sketching, I scan it, and enlarge it, and then use my light box. I did all the work on the sketch. Sure makes the painting part a lot easier!
I put the close up so you could see the specks of paper that I glued down using matte medium. It almost looks like bubbles so that is why I named it...'Bubbles'.

Meet me in the Garden! (The Sunface Steps)

I started out with a sketch, the top photo. Then I scanned it, enlarged it, and printed it out. Then I took a  circle and straightened up my outside.  I had already fixed the paper to match the fish, so using my lightbox, I traced the sketch.

 Here you can see it on the quarter sheet.




The next two photos show the close up. You can see the paper, and the drawing.

 I love the little paper squares in this paper.
I don't remember where I got it. Maybe at Varsity Book Store in Lubbock.
Some of the paper has gold metallic threads.
One piece has holes, and threads.

Here is the first of the color being added.
and below is more paint.
Then the finished Sunface.