WORKSHOP
KUDOS
Don't let your group miss out on this completely different workshop!
Kathy wrote:
I think the very best workshops I ever
took were from Sue. She presents loads and loads of material
each day along with well-illustrated and well-written handouts.
Most of us who are students keep this material and make notes
that we refer to throughout our painting years. I can't tell
you how many times I've gone back over the material Sue gave
me years ago and I keep gleaning something new. She gave us meat
and lots of it, and if we didn't use it right away, we did later.
Also, it's helpful to see a much bigger picture and know what
you can strive for in the future.
Bev Adams even wrote a poem about the
Master Disaster Class!
FOR OUR TALENTED, INSPIRING , PROVOCATIVE,
UPBEAT, PRACTICAL, SHARING, TRUSTY LEADER
Susan Tregay
Has a wonderful way
Of making a workshop fun.
We tape and we mop
Anything that’s a flop
Then marvel at what we have done.
She stresses CONtent
And won’t be conTENT
Till we are expressing our passion.
Says she, be unique,
Develop technique
So your paintings are not purely fashion.
Jasper Johns brought our Susan
Out of confusion
And he changed her art life forever.
He said don’t relax
Let your painting climax
At the end of a threefold endeavor.
Sue pushes brainstorming
For ideas a-forming
She herself has a brain that is quirky.
Though her houses are cockeyed,
Her perspective quite lopside,
Still, she rarely turns out a turkey.
For pupils perplexed
About what to do next
She shouts loud and clear "Make it darker"
Apply lots of paint,
Don’t be what you ain’t
And then make it even more darker. (apologies to my English teachers.)
Approximation
Can bring elation
Sayeth Susan, our woman wise
Step by step
Through goals she swept
Until she reached the prize.
.
Now we offer our thanks
You’ve filled our art banks
And we each have a flip book to treasure.
You helped us define
What is known as design
And you’ve given us very full measure.
Thank you, thank you, Susan, for a fun
and instructive four days.
And thank you for teaching us that "nice" is not enough.
Cazenovia Watercolor Society Workshop
May 5 to 8 2008
Bev Adams
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