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Gender	Female
Industry	Arts
Occupation	artist
Location	north carolina, United States
Introduction	. .Susan's technique is to paint wet on wet to start and then wet on dry for her finishing touches. She occasionally thins her oils with mineral spirits to obtain a balance of scratchy brush work against thick opaque strokes for the lights. “My style is realistic with as much impressionistic color as possible. I like to combine wide brushes for sweeping strokes in the background with small, soft brushes for subtle details in my center of interest.” Many of the ideas for her paintings come from her travels or the everyday objects that surround. Even when I’m painting fairly traditional things, my greatest joy is figuring out original ways of setting up the most common of still life objects so that they appear dynamic. What inspired me in the beginning to paint was the human form, through the years I've done still life's and people in the landscape, as my journey as evolved I find that my first love is the lasting one. I paint either the nude figure or portrait at least once or twice a week. If I could do nothing else but draw from the figure I would be happy. “Susan’s mediums of choice are oil and Pastel Pencil and charcoal, with occasional forays into watercolor.