Susan Klinger

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

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

This art journey has some surprising twists and turns. I started out my artist life painting in watercolor. Through a series of events that are not part of this story, I made the transition to working in pastel. It became a love affair with pastel. I love everything about it. The immediacy of working with it. Not having to wait for anything to dry. (That’s a big one!) The multitude of pastel sticks in a delicious assortment of colors. I could go on. But the point of today’