DRAWING & PAINTING
Instructor - Sue Archer - AWS, NWS, TWSA, FWS
Sue is a studio and plein air artist, national workshop instructor and national juror and judge for watercolor exhibitions. She showed her work in Art Festivals in Florida from 1985 -2014 and still shows her work in national watercolor exhibitions. Since Sue began exhibiting her work in 1985, she has won over 200 state and national awards, has received a Florida State Individual Artist Fellowship grant for painting, and has a DVD “Commanding Color”.
For 25 years Sue had painted large still lifes showing strong light and with textural interest. Now she is doing abstracted-textural work, close-up or mid-distant landscapes, some figurative works, and drawings in-studio and plein air. Painting the effect of light on her subjects and creating texture are still a passion of hers no matter what the genre.
DRAWING & PAINTING - OPEN STUDIO
This will be an Open Studio with Sue Archer as the instructor available. These classes have been set up with the intent of helping the attendees with their drawing and painting skills and to move on to finished drawings and or paintings that you personally want to do.
You may work with your own references and bring in your own still life that you are working from. Each day there will be a studio still-life set up; a model’s picture(s) on the monitor; and photos of landscapes to work from. However, you will be encouraged to take your own photos of landscapes and bring them to the studio.
Tuesday Afternoons 1:00pm - 4:00pm
BEGINNING DRAWING - 2025
Learning to draw is learning to see. It is an act of focused observation. There are many ways to draw and for many reasons. It is the basis for all visual arts no matter what your medium is, but there is only one way to learn to draw: PRACTICE! PRACTICE! PRACTICE!
This course will be taught similar to a workshop even though we meet weekly. You need to practice in between sessions to be able to improve! There will be drawing homework every week to do in between classes, because there is only one way to learn to draw: PRACTICE!