It's already almost August! New classes in figure drawing start September 20 at the Museum in Greenville, please join us! Met up with the Appalachian Pastel Society members who will organize the next NC Statewide Pastel Exhibition this weekend in Candler, NC, at Karen Fields' wonderful home in the mountains.
We painted in plein air on Sunday, and I look forward to participating in more such days in the coming year!

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Please join me if you can for my solo exhibition at Village Studios and Gallery in Greenville, this May 4th, 2012.  My newest portraits and character studies will be on display, along with figurative and introspective works. 

Courses I'm teaching this coming spring are Portraits in Pastel, and an evening class where I'm filling in for Glenn Miller, called Four Evenings, One Pose. I encourage intermediate and advanced students to paint from the life model, where instruction will be as requested and advanced students can get in the zone and paint intensively.

I've been posting new work and items that come to mind on Facebook, where you can find me under Suzy Hart. I hope you will follow my posts there as I plan to show works in progress and stages of construction.  

Demo in Asheville this weekend

Classes at the Museum are going wonderfully, and we have a trip to the BJU museum scheduled to see 12th Century work and following the evolution of painting into the Renaissance. That trip is November 18th.

The Appalachian Pastel Society has invited me to do a demonstration on November 13th. Should be fun. Email me for more information!

Way fun!

The painting I've just posted at left is one of my favorites. It was painted entirely from life about fifteen years ago, when I was leaving Montana. It was sad to leave good friends and a beautiful place to live, but such is life. My friend Bonnie sat nine times for this, and the parrot at least three times. To be more accurate, he stood around and walked up and down her arm a lot. No photos were taken to work from, and the result is a more profound character study than just copying a single photo can ever be. The best portraits are made when the sitter invests his/her time and allows the artist to observe and know the character that sometimes doesn't carry through a lens.

What's new in my art world?

What I would like to do is share thoughts about new works I am painting or sculpting, and have a place to post images and stay current. I'd like more control over which of my works come up on search engines.

Soon I will post information on a book I am writing about expression in a portrait. It will include the subjects of form, drawing, composition, washes and chiaroscuro, in short: Beginning, continuing and finishing a great portrait.

I will also be showing new sculptures as well as posting a gallery of sculptures from my past that were either destroyed or just never shown. I moved around a great deal, and it turns out that sculptures made of wax don't survive the non-museum environment.

So stay in touch, and enjoy the show!

SUZY HART

This is my new blog.

Don't know much about it, won't be much on it for a couple of months.

I am a portrait painter, a Frank Mason student, and a teacher of many forms of art.

More soon!