Lesson Description

  • Complete Materials List
  • Shows and explains thinking process from original photo to the final image to paint
  • Demonstrates concept painting start to finish
  • How to take your reference and bend the elements to the concept of your choice
  • Using simplified light and dark shapes to make it easier to paint
  • using photoshop to simplify backgrounds
  • Adding emotion to your paintings
  • Using a grid method to draw more accurately
  • Running time 1:52

Images are copyrighted by Susan Blackwood. As of member of STREAM Inspired to Paint, you are allowed to paint from these images for personal use only. You are not allowed to paint from these images and then put a painting in a show or a gallery for sale. If you paint from the image and post to social media, we ask that you credit Susan and STREAM Inspired to Paint with the original painting.

Three way split screen allows you to follow along as well as great close up shots

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nationally recognized, award-winning artist, Susan Blackwood received

Best of Show at the 2010 National American Women Artists Juried Exhibition.

Her 44-year painting career started with pen and ink and watercolors in 1972. Her paintings have won many national awards in Museum Shows, Nationally and Internationally, as an oil painter as well as a watercolorist. Susan Blackwood has a passion for teaching artists. Her combination of enthusiasm, encouragement and knowledge is the hallmark of her teaching.

She has been a professional artist and instructor since the early ‘70s.  For 32 years, she was a professional watercolorist. In 2003 she ventured forth into the thick and gooey medium of oils and now, loves and paints in both mediums. Her watercolors and oils have been in many national shows and museums, winning top awards. Versatile is a good word to describe her styles and mediums.

In 2015, Blackwood added contemporary and abstract paintings to her variety of styles and artistic “language of painting”.

Website

www.susanblackwood.com

For more information, a complete biography and more images of Susan Blackwood’s paintings at other galleries