Senior Art: Portrait Drawing

Date: Tuesdays, May 5th, 12th, 19th, & 26th

Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm

Place: Room 18

This is a FREE art program for senior citizens ONLY.

**All Supplies will be provided**

We will be painting in an Abstract Expressionist style using markers, oil pastels, acrylic, and watercolor paint. The class will explore the use of organic and geometric shapes, line, color, synesthesia, composition, and creative expression to complete two or three Abstract Expressionist paintings.

Skill Level Needed: No experience!

About the Instructor: Susan Supola

Susan, raised in Columbia Falls Montana, taught art and English classes at Flathead High School, Kalispell, for 23 years. She also taught one year at Narmer American College in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. She received her B.A. Degree in English and Art Education in 1989, from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, where she was first introduced to the visual arts. Since then, she’s earned many graduate credits in art. Her first love is painting in watercolor, but she also enjoys working with dyes on silk, acrylic/mixed media painting, book-making and basket weaving. Susan was Montana’s Art Educator of the Year in 2004, received a Fulbright-Hays grant for a summer seminar in The Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2001, and was one of 12 teachers in the U.S. chosen to participate in “Modern Art in America,” a Humanities seminar in Research Triangle, North Carolina, 2012. She has shown work at The Hockaday Museum of Art, Longview Library, Columbian Artists show, Oregon Artists Association, The Broadway Gallery, and Paris Gibson Museum of Art.

Senior Art: Wassily Kandinsky and Abstract Expressionist Painting