Susan Moyer Fine Art

Susan Moyer

Susan Moyer - Fine Artist

Grand Junction, CO - United States

After having worked as a paralegal for almost 30 years and raising a family (which left me no time for art of any kind), in 2002 I made good on a life-long threat to retire and become an artist. I started taking a watercolor class at the local art center ~ and struggled mightily with it. Just as I was beginning to think my dreams of being a 'real' artists were sinking, my instructor/mentor/friend Ruth Glenn Little suggested that I try colored pencils. I could draw ~ and am very detailed and realistically oriented, which colored pencils require ~ and those pencils just grabbed me instantly. They seem to be the perfect media for me. and I've been hooked on them ever since. My first entry in a local art show in the fall of 2003 brought me a blue ribbon in the amatuer category and I have since won many ribbons and awards, sold many colored pencil paintings and progressed to the professional category by 2005. In 2004, I began teaching colored pencil drawing at a local college (in their evening continuing education program) and have continue teaching in my home for the past couple of years. This summer, for the first time, I submitted a piece to the Colored Pencil Society of America's annual exhibit and was juried into the show. Although I did not receive any award for my drawing, just being juried in was award enough for me! I am currently putting together a book on colored pencil drawing, based on the lessons I have given to my students in the past four years, and will hopefully have it ready to submit to a publisher in the near future. In the meantime, I have also gone back and taken watercolor classes again, under the tutelage of Cindy Brabec-King, and have managed to win a number of awards for a couple of my watercolors, including two Best of Show awards, one here in Colorado and one in Washington. I'm still learning ~ and always will be ~ but my art work has given me incredible joy and fulfillment.

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