The December Greeting Card Give Away Winner

Congratulations go out to this month's winner

Nellie Krams

from Wilmington, Delaware

When I spoke to Nellie this morning to let her know she was the lucky winner of the

December Give Away she told me she is also a watercolor artist with visions of

painting portraits of her grandchildren.

I predict she will be very successful in her pursuit!

Congratulations Nellie! Enjoy the assorted Christmas Cards.

Happy Painting and Happy Holidays!

Susie

Holiday/Christmas Card DEMO @ Daniel Smith-Seattle

2 FREE DEMOS

 Sunday, October 16th   

12 pm and 2 pm  
Come see a demonstration and

watch me paint a few of these

Christmas Cards!

Winter Birds and Winter Landscapes

make beautiful cards that everyone on your list

will enjoy receiving.

I'll share tips on painting individual cards as well as tips painting a special card for reproduction.

I hope to see you Sunday at the

Daniel Smith Seattle Store

Call 206-223-9599 for more details

Workshops for Painting Winter Landscapes and Winter Birds -- November 5 & 6, 2011
See my next post for more details!

Poinsettia Christmas card patterns are available!

Are you interested in painting poinsettia Christmas cards?

At the request of my students I'm making several of my best poinsettia patterns and photos available online for purchase. You will find these photos and traceable patterns in my Artstore

In addition to the photos and patterns I also have a free printable watercolor tips page on "How to Paint Pretty Poinsettias without a pattern" on my main watercolor website. Enjoy!

Happy Painting!
SUSIE

New Watercolor Poinsettias for Christmas

Hello!
I wanted to share the latest additions to my watercolor Christmas cards. These pretty pink poinsettias were painted from some photos I took last year at a couple of my favorite local greenhouses/nurseries.

At this time of the year when I visit the local plant places each and every pinsettia seem to be crying "Take me home with you!" I can't buy them all...so I do the next best thing... I take photos!

I'll add more as I have time. If you are interested in purchasing any of my watercolor cards you'll find them on my website in my new gift gallery.

I also have some tips for painting your own poinsettias in my watercolor tips pages.

Painting Pretty Poinsettias

Thanks for looking! Your comments are always appreciated and welcome!

SUSIE

Upcoming Seattle Class- Butterflies,Dragonflies, & Bees

BUTTERFLIES, DRAGONFLIES, & BEES
Seattle Watercolor Class @ Daniel Smith Classroom
March 20, 2009 10:00am - 3:30pm $55 pia - $60 atd
Call Susie to Register 253-859-1111
Register Online

New Sand 'n Surf Watercolor Triad

Take a look at this newly released triad of watercolor paint the nice folks at Daniel Smith let me select just in time for painting summer seascapes! I wanted to include two of my color favorites and introduce my students to Goethite a nicly granulating pigment perfect for painting sand.

These three superb colors work together to create the illusion of waves breaking into foamy surf and washing onto a golden sandy beach. Ultramarine Turquoise and Indanthrone Blue, used side-by-side or mixed, create a wide value range of blue-greens. Diluted they add the right touch of color to foaming waves. The natural granulating characteristics of Goethite (Brown Ochre) are perfect for painting golden beach sand.

The DANIEL SMITH Limited Edition Susie Short "Sand and Surf" Extra Fine Watercolor Triad is available online from the Daniel Smith website. Save 47% off the list price and it ships FREE!

You may also want to read the DS Blog about this new triad too!

Let me know how you like them!!

This photo was taken by Wet Canvas artist Laura D at the June 21st Sea & Shore DEMO. I appreciate the WC folks getting together to come see me do my thing! I hope they can make it to more events.

Keep those brushes wet!

Susie

PS. The waves in the previous post were also painted with this new watercolor triad.