Holiday/Christmas Card WORKSHOP @ Daniel Smith-Seattle

Join me for two HOLIDAY CARD WORKSHOPS

What:   Holiday/Christmas Greeting Cards
Where: Seattle Daniel Smith Art Store
When:  Saturday, November 5, 2011  Winter Landscape Cards
             Sunday, November 6, 2011  Winter Bird Cards
Time:   11:00 am til 4:00 pm  (either day)

Cost:     $75/day

There are a couple of seats available....HURRY!


Call Daniel Smith to register
206-223-9599

October/November Give Away Winner!

Congratulations!

The October/November Give Away

winner is

Jean Brooks

from Wellsboro, PA

Jean will receive a boxed set of

Autumn Leaves Notecards

To see more Fall/Thanksgiving notecards

visit my Gift Gallery

The next Give Away is Assorted Christmas Cards

Click Here to Register

August Greeting Card Give Away Winner

Congratulations!
Pat Hinkel

from Maryland

    Pat will receive the greeting card gift set featured

in the August 2011 Give-Away

Ocean Wave #38

Thanks to the 503 visitors who signed up for this Give-Away

Be sure to register for the Sunflowers
September/October Give-Away coming soon!

Enter to Win! All previous entries will be discarded.

Susie's August Give Away

Please sign up for my

August Greeting Card Give Away

Get three note cards

and

Three 5 x 7 greeting cards

Good Luck!

www.susieshort.net/giveaway

April/May Greeting Card Give Away Winners

Congratulations to the April

Greeting Card Give Away Winner
M.J. McMasters
from Chattanooga, Tenn
M.J. received 6 note cards of this painting
"Birdhouse in the Garden"
by Susie Short

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Also.....
Congratulations go to the May Give Away winner
Margie Reyes
from San Antonio, Texas
She gets a gift set of 6 greeting cards with this

"Butterfly on Verbena" painting.

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My apology for the delay in announcing the winners. I appreciate all of the 400+ entries each month. Please remember to register again for the next Give Away.
All entries are removed from the hat and only the new entries qualify for the current contest.
Thanks again for your interest! Susie

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

Christmas Cards in Watercolor

Greetings!

I've been having more fun painting for this years Christmas card collection!

Here is a sneak peak at what I've been painting. Watch for my new gift shop to open on my website to see all 40 of my Christmas cards available this year. (It's exciting!)

Thanks for looking !

SUSIE

UPDATE!! The Gift Gallery is open! Click here! http://gifts.susieshort.net

Holiday Greetings from Susie Short!

Happy Holidays!

This little landscape is one of my favorites from my Winter Landscape Collection for 2008. It has such a crisp clean and peaceful feel to it.

For those interested in learning how to paint this card I do have a pattern packet with written instructions available. Click here for more information

We are really experiencing winter here in the Seattle area this week. In my neighborhood the roads are icy and there has been about 8 inches of snow on the ground for 5 days. I took a lot of reference photos on the snow on the trees and I'm in the mood to paint some more snowy landscapes. I guess thats what happens when you get snow bound. I've never lived where the snow stuck around for very long so I like it! It really does make it feel more like Christmas!

My dogs love the fluffy white stuff and can't wait to go outside to play. Trouble is the snow attaches to their fur and they don't like sitting by the door with the hair dryer to melt the snow balls that collect on their feet and bellies.

Maybe tomorrow I'll build a snowman.

SUSIE

Painting a Pretty Poinsettia

Merry Christmas!

When we see a poinsettia we automatically thing of the Christmas Season. They make the perfect flower for the holidays. Painting a poinsettia can be as easy or as difficult as you want to make it. Easy is painting them like this on, looking down at them from the top. Painting them from the side view or other angles includes more shapes and perspective.

I've added a new watercolor tip on my website for Painting Pretty Poinsettias. Check your print preview before you print it. You may need to adjust your margins a little. I hope you enjoy painting these pretty flowers with me. Please email me a jpeg of your poinsettias I'd love to see your paintings or cards. I'll be starting a new page for paintings created from the watercolor tips on my website in a few months.

Merry Christmas!
SUSIE

Christmas Roses

Merry Christmas!

May the Joy and the Blessings of the Season

be with you through the coming year!

I thought I share a completely different type of Christmas card with you today. This was the card I painted as my own to be sent by me for 2006. Next year I will include it in a collection of Christmas Roses Cards for the public to purchase. I love to paint white roses surrounded by winter greenery like holly with red berries and sprigs of fir or pine. Each card is unique because I "build" them as I go. I'll share another of my Christmas Rose cards I painted this year in a day or two.

Perhaps this subject would make a good watercolor video. What do you think? I'd appreciate your feedback.