Senior Art: Keeping a Watercolor and Ink Sketchbook
Date: Tuesdays, July 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Place: Room 18

Skill Level Needed: No experience!

This is a FREE art program for senior citizens ONLY.

**All Supplies will be provided**

Using a watercolor sketchbook, students will learn skills and techniques for drawing and painting

outdoors and keeping a journal. Students must bring a bottle of water and a folding stool or chair to

each class. The first class will meet at The Square, and depending on the weather, may meet at

other outdoor locations. Carpooling will be available if we move to other sites.

About the Instructor: Susan "Sue" 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, bookmaking 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: Keeping a Watercolor and Ink Sketchbook