Featured Artists
Kathi Hanson JD Hillberry Matthew Luhn Bill Tilton Sean Dye Valerie LaPointe Julia Maddalina
Elizabeth Luce Rebecca Alzofon Aris Stoulil Sam Hale Craig Houghton Emilio Florencio Susan Lyon
Elizabeth Luce Rebecca Alzofon Aris Stoulil Sam Hale Craig Houghton Emilio Florencio Susan Lyon
I love using General's Chalk pastels because they allow me to get the sensitive glow that I want when I draw people. I especially like to use the Sienna color chalks when I draw figures, it is the perfect shade and it has a velvety softness that allows me to mass in the shadow shapes and not have to press down too hard. I recommend it to all my students when I teach drawing classes.
Susan Lyon grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. Her initial interest in art was sparked by a television show on Georgia O'Keefe. "I hadn't seen art like that before. Her work touched me emotionally and seemed so personal -- I saw a television program on her life and that inspired me to take drawing classes. Lyon studied painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and was an active participant in Chicago's 100 year-old Palette and Chisel Club. It is there she first began exhibiting and selling her work; at twenty-three she was the youngest winner of the prestigious Gold Medal which she won two consecutive years in the annual Oil Painting show plus a third place in the Silver Medal Watercolor show. She entered the Oil Painters of America show once and got 7th place. In 1998 and 2000 she won an artist choice award in the Northwest Rendezvous Show.
http://www.susanlyon.com
Susan Lyon grew up in Oak Park, Illinois. Her initial interest in art was sparked by a television show on Georgia O'Keefe. "I hadn't seen art like that before. Her work touched me emotionally and seemed so personal -- I saw a television program on her life and that inspired me to take drawing classes. Lyon studied painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and was an active participant in Chicago's 100 year-old Palette and Chisel Club. It is there she first began exhibiting and selling her work; at twenty-three she was the youngest winner of the prestigious Gold Medal which she won two consecutive years in the annual Oil Painting show plus a third place in the Silver Medal Watercolor show. She entered the Oil Painters of America show once and got 7th place. In 1998 and 2000 she won an artist choice award in the Northwest Rendezvous Show.
http://www.susanlyon.com
