My good friend and fellow artist, Roberta Staat, from Olney, MD is one of the participating artists in Artomatic Frederick during Sept 28-Nov. 6.
Roberta is an incredible artist who we represent here at ARThouse. Here are some of the paintings and drawings she will have on display at Artomatic:
"Summer Grazing"
by Roberta Staat
oil on canvas image 20x24
"Caramel" by Roberta Staat charcoal and pastel
image 14x14"
"Desperadoes" by Roberta Staat oil on canvas image 14x20
"Cows in Black and White"
by Roberta Staat pen and ink image 14x18"
"Cows" by Roberta Staat charcoal on paper image 48x72
So what is Artomatic? Artomatic@Frederick is an independently organized and licensed event headed by volunteers. It is a five-week event featuring art exhibitions, musical performances, plays, dance, poetry and other artforms.
It is taking place soon at the former FCPS Central Office building at 115 E. Church Street, Frederick, Maryland. Hours are from 11am-9pm Wed-Sun. Check out the website for further information: Artomatic Frederick website
Dear ARThouse friends,
This is the Month of New Learninghere at ARThouse! I have started teaching a new series of classes called The Figure in Watercolor. And as they say, "You learn most from teaching". I always find that I learn as much from my students as they learn from me.
We started approaching the figure by painting statues
using a special technique I develped a long time ago while painting pictures of construction rubble. I call it the "rivulet technique" and have written an article about it for my blog, which you can read here:
Some of my demonstration paintings from these classes are shown below. And the students are doing fantastic work, which we will soon put up on the website!
Susan Avis Murphy, 9/23/11
Here are some paintings I did as demonstrations for my class on figure painting in watercolor:
"The Fifer" watercolor by Susan Avis Murphy image 13x18"
"The Little Piper" watercolor by Susan Avis Murphy image 9x13"
"Water Nymph" watercolor by Susan Avis Murphy image 14x18"
I am taking a workshop in figure painting myself this coming week from nationally-known artist Carla O'Connor. This workshop is sponsored by the Baltimore Watercolor Society and actually I am the coordinator. In my next newsletter I will hopefully have some good results to show you from this exciting workshop! --Sue
ARThouse is a unique studio and gallery located in Sandy Spring, Maryland, about 10 miles north of Washington, DC. It is the original studio of watercolorist Susan Avis Murphy, and has been expanded to also showcase and sell the work of other excellent artists from the Washington metropolitan area. Also adult classes in watercolor and drawing are taught at ARThouse.
ARThouse is open to the public almost daily and is the venue for special art shows several times per year. Join our mailing list by emailing us at susan@susanavismurphy.com and you will receive invitations to the shows and special announcements.
Contact information: Susan Murphy, owner and manager ARThouse is located near Olney, MD at: 17520 Doctor Bird Road Sandy Spring, MD 20860
email: susan@susanavismurphy.com phone: 301-774-3418 hours: Wed.- Sun. 10am-6pm open Mon. & Tues. by appointment open evenings by appointment
