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Price
List
As
of March 2008
Life
Size Head and Collar $2000
$1000
un-returnable deposit
The
price does not include framing or sales tax
Portraits
will be drawn on full sheet of 20 by 30 inch paper;
it is up to the client how they would like to crop the image. I will use
toned paper and conte pastel pencils.
I can only work from my own photos
of the client so that the best quality can be attained. We will meet at
my studio on
Trade Street
so I can use professional lighting when taking the photographs. I will
provide a disk of the images I take at that session. After looking at
the photo’s I will e-mail you 3 or 4 that I think will be good for me
to work from, you can choose from those.
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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 – a sort of window into her
soul.”
Lyon
studied painting at the
American
Academy
of Art in
Chicago
and the respected Palette and Chisel Club. It is there she first began
exhibiting and selling her work.
Susan
draws much inspiration from painters such as Zorn, Malavin, Sorolla, and
Cecelia Beaux.
Lyon
’s
technique is to paint wet on wet with a balance of scratchy brush work
against thick, opaque strokes for the lights. “My style is an attempt
to balance realistic and abstract passages with as much impressionistic
color as possible. I like to combine wide, sweeping strokes in the
background with small, subtle details in my center of interest.”
Many
of her ideas come from the everyday objects that surround her such as
the flowers in her garden, dolls or the occasional curious kitten
playfully exploring her studio. “What I hope to accomplish is to
convey the whimsical beauty I see around me, as well as to make the
viewer smile when they look at my work. Even when I’m painting fairly
traditional things, my greatest joy is figuring out original ways of
setting up the most common of still life objects or costumed figure
poses, so that they appear dynamic.
Susan Lyon lives in a rural area of
North
Carolina
with her husband, artist Scott
Burdick, whom she met at the Palette and Chisel Club. She moved there to
escape the hectic pace of city life as well as to experience an entirely
different part of the country. Surrounded by nature, Susan’s studio
allows her the space and privacy to grow as an artist. It also serves as
a perfect home-base for her painting trips and travels which have
included most of Europe, Turkey, Greece, Mexico, Canada, Nepal,
Thailand, China, Peru, Tibet, India and Africa. “The excitement of
traveling, seeing so many new sights, and incredible works in museums,
combined with the challenge of painting on the spot, makes me a travel
addict! Even before I go on a trip I’m planning the one after.”
Website – susanlyon.com
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