Tuesday

May 5, 2020

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Level: all

Length: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Susan Fehlinger

Fee: $25

SO SORRY. THIS WORKSHOP IS FILLED TO CAPACITY.  Contact Suzy at education@rowaytonarts.org or call 203-866-2744 (x-2) if you’d like to be put on the waitlist. 

RAC is excited to jump into the world of Zoom in order to deliver an online “Paint and Sip” experience to all who yearn for some creative fun.

Susan Fehlinger will lead participants through this southwestern landscape painting using a palette knife only.  The challenge, the fun and the laugh factor should be high as we navigate this new platform together.

No supplies at home? No problem! For an extra $10 RAC will deliver paints, palette knives and a canvas to your home (as long as you live within a 20 mile radius of RAC). You can even purchase a table easel for $15.  Just let us know on the registration form.

Supply List

12 X 16 CANVAS

1 or 2 palette knives:

4” knife with rounded edges (Jerry’s #49T)

You may want a shorter one also for detail

A brush if you must

Acrylic or Oil Paints

Cerulean or Manganese Blue

Deep Ultramarine Blue or Indigo Blue

Lemon Yellow

Indian Yellow or Yellow Ochre

Alizarin Crimson or Cadmium Red

Cadmium Orange

White

Medium

For oils: Gamblin Solvent Free Gel

For acrylics: Liquitex Gel Medium

Palette for mixing – Paper, wood or plastic – whatever you have

Container of water and paper towels

About Susan Fehlinger:

Susan Fehlinger had to be content to be an occasional painter during her 30+-year career as a Television Producer in New York City. She attended art classes at The School of Visual Arts at night, and painting workshops in the summers on Cape Cod, Monhegan Island Maine and Prince Edward Island, but for the most part she is a self-taught artist.

In 2003 she quit her job in NYC, bought a bed and breakfast on Cape Cod and began painting more seriously. She joined the Chatham Art Gallery on the Cape in 2007, and was represented by Sheldon Fine Arts in Newport RI and Saratoga Springs NY, as well as True North Gallery in Kennebunkport ME and Art Essex in Essex CT. She had solo shows at The Cultural Center of Cape Cod and The Cahoon Museum of American Art.

In 2014 she relocated to Black Rock CT in order to be closer to NY city, and branched out to other themes such as coastal architecture and cityscapes. Fehlinger’s paintings depict familiar, yet abstracted scenes. Her painting style emphasizes her interest in texture, color and light; and she applies her paint thickly with a palette knife to highlight structure, form and shadow. Her compositions play with scale, placement, and negative/positive spaces, creating visual interest and an individual style.

She is an active member of the Artists Collective of Westport and an exhibiting member of the Rowayton Art Center and the Ridgefield Guild of Artists. Since moving to Connecticut she has had a solo show at The Westport Library, The Greene Art Gallery in Guilford, The Kershner Gallery in Fairfield, and she has exhibited her work at Beechwood Arts, The Easton Art Council and the Westport Art Center.

Susan is currently represented by Southport Galleries, Southport CT