Susan Klinger

A step by step demonstration of how I draw an ocean wave, capturing the color, transparency, motion and wetness using pastel.

I have the good fortune to live an easy driving distance from quite a few excellent art museums. I am not one to attend every museum or special exhibit, just because it is there. I honestly would much rather be painting than look and read about what others have painted 100 years ago. But there are exceptions. Recently I joined a friend to see ‘American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent’ at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I had been anticipating this show and was e

Just as in music, all the 'notes' must come together for a successful painting. Follow along in the evolution of a pastel painting f

Hopefully that title has you just a bit curious! As some of you might know, I spent 34 years teaching art to very talented high school art students. If any of them are reading this, they would be able to easily explain to you the YUK stage, most likely while rolling their eyes! It is something I discovered in creating my own art, but it wasn’t until my students encountered it, that I coined the phrase, the “YUK stage” in searching for a way to explain the phenomenon and to

I get asked this question EVERY time I exhibit a gouache painting...

Having worked in realism for the majority of my adult artistic life, my foray into abstraction for about a year and a half surprised not only my followers, but me as well. Yes, I had done the occasional abstract here and there to shake out the cobwebs in my creative brain, but I had never pursued it in depth for an extended period of time. So what birthed this total switch in style? Without risking the ‘too much information’ syndrome, let’s just say that my husband was deal