About me
Ive been a watercolour artist for over 30 years and love to share my passion for watercolour painting through teaching.
If you want ask about art lessons, purchasing my artworks, where I teach... or absolutely anything at all, please click here to visit the contact page.
If you would like to see some of the artworks, please click here to view the gallery.
I currently teach at various art studios around Sydney. Click here for a list of art studios that I am currently teaching at.
"I teach a loose approach to painting. Very much 'less is more'. I like to have fun in my lessons and do not hold back when someone is not doing the right thing... In the nicest possible way of course! I certainly give lots of praise too. I try to give students confidence in their ability and believe that you only need basic drawing skills with watercolour. If the paint is properly applied, you will end up with a lovely painting."
I give full-day workshops at the following places in Sydney:
To view the planned workshops, click here.
• Art Est Art School and Gallery at Leichhardt —generally the last Sunday of the month.
02 95641519
• Royal Art Society — 25 Walker St Lavender Bay
02 99555725
• Willoughby Workshop—from 10-4
33 Laurel street (cnr Hollywood Cres)
02 99586540
• Cilla Campbell—from 10-4
Eastern suburbs, All Saints Hall, Ocean St Woollahra
cillacampbell@gmail.com
0425223656
• Kuringai Art Centre Roseville—from 10-4
Recreation Avenue Roseville (just past the tennis courts) plenty of parking
02 94240310
• Central Coast Watercolour Society—from 10-4
The Entrance
0401566379
Zoom workshops -- Sunday mornings 10-1
email me ... susiemurphie@hotmail.com
WORKSHOPS
It doesn’t matter what the subject matter of a workshop... I concentrate on paint quality and teach you how to get the paint down and make it look great.
Don’t worry about drawing skills or lack thereof, i will help you learn how to draw but overall it is the watercolour that is the most important thing.
Watercolour Bootcamp — this is a day of fast painting and drawing covering all sorts of subjects.I’ll be giving you all sorts of tips to give new confidence and vibrancy to your work. Let me know beforehand if there is something in particular that you want to do and I’ll do my best to include it.
Also suitable for brave beginners.
This is a page in my demo book showing the demonstration for the travel sketching techique I teach.
Feathers are quick and beautiful to do. I pick them up whenever I see them
Quick self portrait done and the end of the Portraits workshop...everyone did one and were amazed at the results
One of my favourite workshops to give is ’Dogs, Cats and Pets’. They always make wonderful paintings. This is a quick demo on cartridge paper
This is a demo I did for ‘Introduction to Portraits’ workshop
Recent class exercise in composition using various images
'Antlers' is one of my personal favourties at the moment. It combines high contrast with subtlety.
A Pelican that was painted for my daughter Bonnie.
A 10 minute demonstration that I did in class on A3 cartridge paper.
Painting with my cat Eddie
This is my favourite child, Bonnie.
