We live in such a mobile society. My artist friends are no exceptions. My friend,
Beverly McLarty recently moved here to Atlanta, from Arkansas. It was such a delight to meet a new artist, especially after the departure from Atlanta of a wonderful painter and print maker,
Susanne Clark. Susanne is now happily living in Toronto and from all reports (see
her blog), I can understand why. I recently received a link to a
Slide Show of her mixed media creation titled “Geisha”. The moment I saw it I fell in love. Having spent some years as a young girl in Japan, anything Asian grabs my attention. I asked Susanne to tell me more about it and she generously shared this information. “The painting is 48 inches square and it’s on board. I under painted in acrylic and then finished it off in oils. The board was textured with lots of tissue paper glued on in layers before I started to paint. It’s based on a traditional geisha painting but I have modernized the look of it etc.” I particularly love the little gold rectangles that are scattered over the piece. Susanne says they are gold paint put on with a stamp she made. This wonderful piece hangs over Susanne’s breakfront in the dining area of her lovely home. I hope that you will visit Susanne’s
website and enjoy all of her creations.
We live in such a mobile society. My artist friends are no exceptions. My friend, Beverly McLarty recently moved here to Atlanta, from Arkansas. It was such a delight to meet a new artist, especially after the departure from Atlanta of a wonderful painter and print maker, Susanne Clark. Susanne is now happily living in Toronto and from all reports (see her blog), I can understand why. I recently received a link to a Slide Show of her mixed media creation titled “Geisha”. The moment I saw it I fell in love. Having spent some years as a young girl in Japan, anything Asian grabs my attention. I asked Susanne to tell me more about it and she generously shared this information. “The painting is 48 inches square and it’s on board. I under painted in acrylic and then finished it off in oils. The board was textured with lots of tissue paper glued on in layers before I started to paint. It’s based on a traditional geisha painting but I have modernized the look of it etc.” I particularly love the little gold rectangles that are scattered over the piece. Susanne says they are gold paint put on with a stamp she made. This wonderful piece hangs over Susanne’s breakfront in the dining area of her lovely home. I hope that you will visit Susanne’s website and enjoy all of her creations.
Eva, I really enjoy the way you're sharing some of your favorite friends and their wonderful work...thanks!
ReplyDeletethanks for your comment on my tree sketches!! That was a fun Art House Coop project. You may know about Art House...anyone can sign on, take on a project and then it travels before coming home to the new Art House Library moving from Atlanta to Brooklyn right now.
i really adimire the way this image was build ... the touches ...
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments merci. Also for the info about the Art House.
ReplyDeleteThanks for visiting Caio.I agree with you about Susanne's painting.
ReplyDeletebeing half Japanese, and drawn to anything Asian-- and after traveling to Kyoto in October-- I have to admit that anything Japanese will grab me as well-- you must have wonderful memories when you were a little girl in Japan..
ReplyDeleteYes, I do have wonderful memories of Japan. They were some of the best years of my life. My first art teacher was there. I spoke very little Japanese and he didn't speak English. It became more of a osmosis sort of experience but it influenced all of my art.We lived in a wonderful Japanese home that was surrounded by beautiful gardens.I think of it every time I visit your wonderful blog.
ReplyDeleteGreetings,
ReplyDeleteI too feel in love with the painting and I may wish to add it to my sidebar of a blog under development with Susanne's permission of course, since the blog is all about tea.
Thank you for sharing with us an artist you like and one I shall follow.
Warmest regards,
Egmont
Hi Eva, What a striking painting! Thanks for sharing a little bit about the painting, made more personal by knowing of your friendship; wonderful!
ReplyDeleteHi Peggy. I glad you also like Susanne's painting. I was so happy she agreed to share her techniques.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your comments Egmont. I'm so pleased that my post about my my friend Susanne has had such a positive response. It's feels good to support such a talented artist.It's what networking is all about.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your blog, and enjoyed taking a look at Susanne's other works. You both are very talented artists.
ReplyDeleteMichelle
P.S. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Thank you Eva for writing this nice post about my Geisha and for all the lovely comments here. It has been a really nice experience for me. I would be very happy for you to use Geisha on your blog Egmont. I am from NZ and Egmont,as I'm sure you know, is a beautiful mountain in the North Island with a shape very like Mt Fuji in Japan.
ReplyDeleteLovely post, fantastic painting a series of comments. Thanjks yo ualso for your visit and kind words. Regards.
ReplyDeleteWhoa..."thank you also for your visit and kind words." Can't take me anywhere...
ReplyDeleteMy pleasure Susanne. Thank you for allowing me to decorate my blog with your beautiful painting!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you John for stopping by, twice :O)
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