Plein Aire is a fancy French term for  “Painting on Location”.  I am sure that most people are familiar with the meaning, but not everyone is. So I have started labeling my work with “Painting on Location. I love to paint outdoors when the weather is perfect. Ha!Ha!, so in Texas that is not a […]

I am back home on the porch drinking my morning coffee, reading the paper, having fun with Dee and watching the antics of our wonderful dogs and cats.  “There is no place like home”.   As many of you know, I was in Galveston for ArtWalk. The show went up on October 1. I worked […]

  I have been meditating for about 20 years. My methods have evolved over the years, but the quiet and calm that I have that I reaped just keeps getting richer and richer.  I find that settling into my meditation time is so easy now compared to how it was  when I first started meditating. […]

I have a select group of people who I show my work to as it progresses to the finished state. The group consists of art experts and people who have no formal training in art, but appreciate it and tolerate my sometimes way to frequent requests for their opinion. Let’s call them “Susan’s Mentor Group” […]

Shrimper’s Delight is one of the paintings in my Shrimp Fleet Series.

I painted this shrimp boat in preparation for my show at G Lee Gallery, ArtWalk  in October.  A bit about this painting… I have been holding on to the reference photograph for 13 years. It was taken by my brother Mike (RIP) before 911 changed  the access to our harbors. When Mike died, back in […]

I made one of my mad dashes down to G Lee’s Gallery Thursday and Friday. I needed to hang some new work and of course I had to put this little piece of memory on my panel in the Gallery. There once was a time when you could drive your truck on the beach and […]

As I sit here in my living room gazing out the windows this morning at the world outside, I am amazed by the transition that we have experienced in 4 short weeks.  Four weeks ago we had a long spate of freezing weather that we have not had for many decades in central Texas, 8 […]

Well, I had no idea that when I decided on the topic for this painting & blog, that this scene would again be very timely. Here we all are in a pickle. Sustained freezing cold weather across the state. The electrical grid can’t handle the load. ERCOT is in over its head. We are in […]

I really thought that January would be a welcomed relief to all the madness that we had last year. The election would be over, the pandemic would be winding down…..Silly me!. Well thank goodness I can escape to my studio. I have been working on several projects. Here are three of them. They are small- […]

I am amazed, in spite of our pandemic ordeal…Life is just as busy and hectic as in years past. The Centerville Arts Commission just held the Christmas Market on the Square. Almost everyone was masked and since it was held outdoors, air circulation was not a problem. The crowd was not as much as in […]

Happy Fall! to everyone. We are expecting a light frost tonight. I am more than happy to welcome in more moderate temperatures and the changing color of the landscape. It is the time of year that I want to paint outside. When I was in College at Sam Houston almost all of my work was […]