Featured Artist Susan Brown | Artsy Shark

California painter Susan Brown provides a assortment of colorful landscapes that share a one of a kind feeling of location. See far more of her get the job done by traveling to her internet site.

“Salinas” acrylic, 14″ x 11″

To generate in any of the arts requires braveness.  – Ga O’Keeffe

To me portray is not a interest, is not straightforward, and is not usually enjoyable (though often it can be.) Approaching a blank canvas is like beginning an unidentified journey. It has pitfalls, issues and unpredicted surprises. Some of them are joyful surprises and some are not. I phone the approach paintstaking.

“Covid Hope Taqueria” acrylic, 32″ x 28″

Due to the architectural geometry, aerial point of view and inclusion of portraits and figures, my Roadways and Today’s Globe collection are especially complicated and complicated.

“Arro’s Market” acrylic, 11 ‘ x 14″

As lots of artists know, you can fudge landscapes and nonetheless lifes, but if you are portray human beings, particularly at all realistically, 1 can location inaccuracies promptly. That’s why I studied nine hrs per 7 days for the duration of 2020. I continue on to research figures and portraiture so they can be incorporated into my paintings.

“San Francisco 1″ acrylic, 20″ x 16”

A person thing I do take pleasure in is finding into the zone. This is exactly where I’m so thoroughly absorbed in my function that I listen to and see almost nothing else, as if a shroud had been above me that shuts out the relaxation of the planet. I even converse to my paintings, sometimes swearing at them if points are not heading very well, and thanking them when they are!

“Hidden Valley I” oil, 14″ x 11″

Nonetheless, I come across that working day to day interruptions often make it tricky to have this concentrated circumstance. Which is why I used and was approved into an artist residency in France for a month.

Artist Susan Brown with artwork in an exhibition in France.

Though there, I painted a significant (32” x 28”) painting in about two weeks, which includes a landscape background with a portrait in the foreground. This was a record for me. I was shocked that I could finish this kind of a massive, thorough portray in such a shorter time! It gave me self-confidence knowing that I have the strategy and awareness to do this. The painting was then approved into an global exhibition. 

“Downtown Santa Cruz” acrylic, 24″ x 22″

Now I use this concentration as I paint in my studio. Many of my paintings are neighborhood, like Van Ness Ave, Santa Cruz, which is the road I reside on. It was one particular of my initial spot paintings. Downtown Santa Cruz is my sweet-coloured model of my town’s downtown, wherever five streets converge. (The geometry of the crosswalks was primarily challenging to get suitable!) 

“Davenport Evening” acrylic, 36″ x 32″

The Davenport paintings are of a town about 10 miles from Santa Cruz. It is a spot I generally go, to eat at the legendary dining establishments (the RoadHouse and the Whale City Bakery) and hike down from the bluffs to a path by the ocean. I like the smaller town truly feel.

“Roadhouse Evening” acrylic, 20″ x 16″

My Concealed Valley landscape paintings are of a pretty valley that is only seen really briefly though driving on California Freeway 1 involving Half Moon Bay and Santa Cruz. 

“Hidden Valley II” acrylic, 14″ x 11″

I intend my paintings to pose thoughts for the viewer, who may be figuring out the place the roadways lead. They are meant to evoke a perception of recognition or deja vu, irrespective of whether or not you have basically been to these destinations. And I want to develop a perception of group pertaining to how we all offer with challenging circumstances, this sort of as Covid and immigration, in Today’s Globe.

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