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| This website is the online gallery for Georgia artist Susan D. Kennedy. Susan is an award-winning watercolorist and oil painter whose works appear in galleries, corporations, and homes all over the United States, Canada and the world. Her style is loosely realistic, and she accepts commissions for watercolors and oils. Susan's work often appears on ebay under seller "susankennedy," and she teaches oil painting at several of the Parks and Rec Community Centers in Cumming, Georgia (call 770 781-2215 to inquire) _______________________ A note from Susan: My offerings on this site consist primarily of original paintings for sale, including oils on canvas, original watercolors, mixed media paintings, linocut prints, monoprints, and the occasional offset print or acrylic painting. I believe with all my heart in the Arts and Crafts movement and hope to encourage among my customers a commitment to buying cultural items from artists and artisans that they know. I feel that buying hand made and artist-made items is the antidote to the malaise in our galleries and showrooms. I want to see American art of all types filling our boutiques, shops and fine art galleries, in contrast to mass-produced objects bought for the cheapest price. I hope to do my share by producing art which is unique and intrinsically valuable and offering it to my wonderful customers. Maybe if many of my fellow artists and artisans continue to produce, blog and sell, we will help to further a revival of craftsmanship and home items with heart and value. Thank you for being a supporter of the arts! I hope that on these pages you find a tiny original miniature, a little painting on ebay, an original print, or a great big bold watercolor which will delight you. If you are an artist yourself, I hope you'll take a look at my instructional materials. Click on the "art instruction" link to see what I offer. On the left there are a number of free short videos on my painting process, and on the main part of the page you will find the pdf format ebooks and ebooklets on watercolor, watercolor demonstrations, step-by-step painting lessons, and more. There is also a 29 minute video on watercolor painting which is a video showing my process as I tackle the middle stages of a bright still life in watercolor. On this Instruction page you can find previews of the Watercolor ebook and of the Painting Video. If you want to see more of the art demonstrations, art, and prints that I offer in a more familiar store format, you can see my items at my ebay store, on in my store on etsy. Thank you for looking and I hope you'll email me your throughts. |
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| COME PAINT at Susan's Upcoming WORKSHOPS IN THE NORTH ATLANTA AREA! Click here to see all of my winter 2011-12 schedule! I'm really looking forward to my class in OIL PAINTING at Fowler Park in Forsyth County (two hour daytime classes coming up in January) and WATERCOLOR LANDSCAPE at Sharon Springs Park also in January (also two-hour daytime classes). Call 770 781-2215 to inquire or sign up, (if signups have not yet begun, email me at kennedyartstudio@bellsouth. net -you'll need to take the space out of this email address! - to get on my waiting list) and click on the links above to get a course description, see demos which will be painted, and get a supply list , pricing and signup contact information. See you there!! |
| Susan's youtube videos, ebooks, and videos on art |
| A word about Susan's watercolor art: Watercolor artist (and oil artist) Susan D. Kennedy has been producing and selling original art in the Atlanta area since 1985. Watercolor painters are well represented on the internet, but Susan's work stands out as the product of decades of time spent working daily in this demanding medium. Her artwork is primarily realistic in style, but Susan's portfolio includes other styles that you would find in a modern art gallery: impressionistic and modert art paintings may be found in her summertime work, and miniatures and collage have also found their way into her professional life. Contemporary art in America is a dizzying collection of styles and subject matter, and Susan finds that dabbling in many subjects and genres helps to keep her contemporary art fresh; even the crisp realism you see in most of her watercolors benefit from many forays into abstraction and impressionism. Many watercolor artists tend to keep their body of work very consistent, but you will find that Susan's work flows from her eye, not her mind: landscape paintings which point to the sights of a morning drive flow into contemplative abstract watercolor paintings which have veered into expressionism. The next day watercolor flowers and theatrical still lifes may seize her eye and command a foray into the light and transparency of floral artwork. This type of spontaneity in her watercolor art, as well as the use of a many-layered technique is the underlying unity in Susan's portfolio: expression of what she sees - not in a consistent style or subject - but in a consistently passionate use of watercolor paints in their many flowing, blending, blooming, layered ways. Her watercolor landscapes are the best example of how this painter uses the medium to speak or sing: their development is deft and respectful of the transparency of the paint, their colors fresh and expressive. We hope that Susan's watercolor painting will speak to you as well: come and look through the pages of Susan's online fine art gallery to get a fresh look at the watercolor art of a passionate and able artist. |
| Welcome to the online gallery and art instruction website of artist Susan D. Kennedy! |